Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Makurin Roman schreef: Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ? I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ? 10nx Open k3b, choose one of the DVD project types from either 1. The big buttons on the lower half of the main screen 2. The button bar under the menu bar

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Makurin Roman schreef: Thanks a lot! I found DVD data project, but it accessible only in menu bar :-) If you right-click on the lower half of the main screen (where it says Welcome to K3B, and has the buttons for fast project choice), you can add and remove buttons; if you go to the

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I just found some docs on this that say Large organizations that require an integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and Thunderbird. So, I guess the question

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Ric de France schreef: Hi, I recently did a: $ emerge -DNuva world which came back with: snip ... [ebuild U ] media-video/totem-1.0.4 [1.0.2-r1] -a52 -debug +dvd +flac +gnome -lirc +mad +mpeg +ogg -theora +vorbis +win32codecs +xine +xv ... /snip Thinking it was so good,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: You can see that 'laby' is not copied to /usr/games/bin, though I guess that must be it in /usr/lib/laby? Yes, indeed it is: la /usr/lib/laby totaal 5388 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 168 aug 29 17:20 . drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 110112 aug 29 17:20 .. -rw

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Alec Shaner schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I think you're not quite right :), but I can see why you'd think this. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonas Geiregat schreef: Fernando Canizo wrote: El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip Just

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/equery, line 1551, in ?

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: The problem, from the looks of it, could be in Python, or in gentoolkit itself. Have you updated Python recently? Perhaps you need to run /usr/sbin/python-updater to make sure everything is copacetic. python is up

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-29 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: I emerged firestarter (during which I got iptables), and forgot that I didn't have iptables emerged prior. I went into the kernel and selected (as the doc I found suggests) Oh, John, to hell with the doc you found (which look to be from the Wiki). No offense to the

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Amphibian schreef: emerge mldonkey gives me this: * If the compile with gui fails, and you have updated ocaml * recently, you may have forgotten that you need to run * /usr/portage/dev-lang/ocaml/files/ocaml-rebuild.sh * to learn which ebuilds you need to recompile * each time you update

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:20 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, but I don't want a GUI....

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: # echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use Or even: echo net-p2p/mldonkey -gtk /etc/portage/package.use :-) Indeed. You see, there's the downside of having too many aliases. You forget how

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ The Firestarter kernel requirements doc says - *Device drivers *Networking support [y] *Networking support *Networking options *Network packet filtering [y] *Network packet filtering IP: Netfilter Configuration (*) We recommend you enable _everything_ except

Re: [gentoo-user] glunarclock

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Anyone emerged this and got it to load? I emerged it, but I can’t find a way to have it start in gnome. (it’s an applet) John D Yes, I've used it several times, under various versions of gnome-panel. The way to start it (or most any panel applet), is to

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Make sure the acpid daemon is running. rc-update show = acpid | default alsasound | default alsasound~ | apmd | Is this daemon running? Try (as root) /etc/init.d/acpid start (or, change the settings and

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. Well, you can't very well run the acpi daemon if you don't have it, can you-- and if you don't have it, how is GNOME supposed to find it? * sys-power/acpid Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: ok... rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level). And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has {ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc +gstreamer +ipv6 0 kb But -- /etc/init.d/apmd start shows apm support is not compiled

[gentoo-user] [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting it up to use more of its features, notably the dock. Now, I always ran OB from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: Matt Randolph wrote: I've seen related threads here recently, but I think my question is different enough to warrant a new thread. I'm looking for a personal firewall along the lines of the ZoneAlarm product for Windows. I don't want to take the time to teach myself

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change to a config file which would change when

[gentoo-user] [OT]Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
OK, this is so bizarre, I hardly know how to ask it (which is why I can't find anything in Google about it, either). This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: bshlists schreef: Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]Text editor and scripting weirdness [SOLVED?]

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Moshe Kaminsky schreef: Hi, * Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [30/08/05 17:30]: Hi all, I was having a nice day when this started happening completely out of the blue (no emerges, no changes, no nothing prior to what I'm about to explain): I use Openbox, and I finally just started setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Hareesh Nagarajan schreef: Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? emerge Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls No, it doesn't *need* it-- but do you see that +eds with a star? That's the new USE flag which

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Joshua Armstrong schreef: Hello, I'm having a problem with rsync on one of my servers. Every time I rsync from one of the gentoo portage mirrors, it tells me rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1064). I've tried re-emerging rsync and re-emerging portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird stopped opening firefox windows...

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Antoine schreef: Hi, When I click on an email now nothing happens. It was fine and dandy for a while but now nothing... anyone got any ideas? Cheers Antoine Perhaps Firefox is no longer set as your default browser (it must be reset after an upgrade)? Maybe Thunderbird is trying to open links

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Mauch schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: This is more dock stuff. I'm trying to change the colors on those dockapps that allow it. These dockapps that allow it are *supposed* to take hex color codes (#xx1x34), but they don't seem to. They do, however, take named colors (orange

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Hi all, I find a cute patch to mutt and to use it i modified the ebuild and the pertinent files so now re-emerging mutt builds mutt with this patch. Later i fixed the actual version of mutt so an upgrade cannot erase it. What i would like to know is how can i do

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1), so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: make bzImage modules modules_install OK, don't

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: El 30/ago/2005 a las 22:36 -0300, Holly me decía: Normally what one would do is place all modified ebuilds in your PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... Thank you very much. You should take advice from Nick and make it a howto. I'm surely going to translate to spanish and put it in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050831 Martin S wrote: Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what the fonts look like Gfontview Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd Xfontsel (both part of Xorg). and be able to install what's not installed. Well, this is Gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Or, if there's some way to 'modularize' mutt, you could look into turning the patch into a 'plugin' (if such things exist, I know nothing about mutt), so that it would be optional to those who wanted to use

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:42:16 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But do you know the answer to Nick's question about what I said earlier? In a 'conflict' between two ebuilds of the same name and version, one in Portage and one in the overlay, does the choice of which one

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: The script /etc/conf.d/rc contains the following lines : # RC_USE_CONFIG_PROFILE allows you to have different /etc/conf.d files # based on your runlevel - if a conf.d file for your profile does not exist # then we try and use the default one. # To enable runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Say 'Hello, to my little friend' arpscan http://ish.cx/~jason/arpscan/ Sure would be nice if is was ported to an ebuild.. Some reason you can't submit one to b.g.o (if that hasn't been done already)? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Canizo schreef: Is this a behaviour that a significant portion of the mutt userbase might want? Or are you just weird ;) ? Well, you use thunderbird, so maybe you're more like a mouse user. Yes, but I'm getting over it. Also I need to know how to work with at least one CLI email

Re: [gentoo-user] rc script opacity

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:23:33 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The 'command prompt' referred to is probably the bootloader command prompt (I don't remember how LiLO does it, but in GRUB you can edit menu entries on the fly and boot from the edited entry). It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
Steve B schreef: On 9/1/05, *Matt Garman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the best window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: [Way off topic] But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code Portage? eix america * games-fps/americas-army Available versions: 230 Installed: none Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf set (dirname to taste) PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs which will add 2 new files to that dir for each

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing ACPI from the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew MacKenzie schreef: +++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200]: If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded the kernel. I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? Dunno what it is, but it seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I was just thinking that it would be really nice if after I run genkernel I got a list of packages that need to be recompiled against the new kernel (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Ben Blount schreef: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Peter Ruskin schreef: On Friday 02 September 2005 00:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Peter, why does running this command give me the following output: emerge -v $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:=:' ) !!! No command or unknown command given

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Bob Sanders schreef: But it does come down to personal preferences. And I've used a lot of window managers. snip ripped off the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

2005-09-01 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Iulian schreef: I don't know how to solve: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../.. -O3 I could (definitely) be wrong, but I doubt that the ebuild forces -O3 in the CFLAGS; perhaps you should consider dropping down to -O2 and see if that helps. Also, the fact that -O3 is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. 8.14.13-r2 supports 2.6.12 with an (included) patch, and 8.16.20 (-* masked

Re: [gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Shikhman schreef: Hi, After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Hi All, It has been mentioned in this list and elsewhere that toggling network.prefetch-next to false in the about:config should do just that. I was just looking at my netstat output as soon as I fired FF and guess what I saw! There was also a connection to 212.58.226.19

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: but I'm clueless as to why libglx wouldn't be working. (II) LoadModule: glx (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: glx (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) The module not existing would seem to be a good reason that it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: Thanks for the reply Holly. Symlinks are as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! i test with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: To become a Linux user is a commitment. People don't make new commitments lightly, and making a light commitment to Linux is doomed to failure. It's far too hard to use. This is a common 'perception', and yet again I have to object to it, because it's *wrong* (not for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to find my notes anymore. The effects of age I think... I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new folders in the

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Williams schreef: On Sunday 04 September 2005 18:42, Philip Webb wrote: In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says virtual/editor app-editors/nano there's no mention of Joe. This only specifies the default for the virtual. You've installed

Re: [gentoo-user] What's going on with scons

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Rafael Fernández López schreef: Hi, I'm doing right now an emerge -vuD world. Now portage wants to UPDATE scons. If I do another emerge -vuD world (not necessary to run emerge sync) portage wants to DOWNGRADE scons. Always that I do an emerge sync and later an emerge -vuD world, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem schreef: On 04 September 2005 11:41, Holly Bostick wrote: I've tried to stay away from this thread but can't resist any more. ;-) [ snip a lot of Holly's rant I mostly agree with ] This is why I can't deal with all the people I encounter who suggest that 'it' should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: [I just thought I'd chip in my two cents on the question of whether Linux is easy or hard. It's turned into more like my $11.62, so it's a good thing it's broken into sections.] Linux is easy. snip of Matt's tour-de-force, virtually all of which I agree with,

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050904 Holly Bostick wrote: I'm surprised no one has said, Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals , where you will likely see that Joe is set as an in-use virtual/editor(s) on your actual system. Yes, it is, along with Vim Gvim Nano. However, (1) that file still lists

Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Jason Stubbs schreef: On Monday 05 September 2005 04:23, Holly Bostick wrote: What I'm surprised at is that no one has said, Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, where you will likely see that Joe is set as (one of) the in-use virtual/editor(s) on your actual system. /var/cache/edb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: In the Windows world, you don't have to ask yourself is this software available for my OS? In the Windows world, you buy the hardware first and then check to see if it's compatible AFTER you start having trouble getting it to work in your

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-05 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? There is a bug entered regarding xcdroast not being able to be downloaded (which I got when I did emerge xcdroast). It seems that the only reason for it not being there is either because there's something _really_

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Humphrey schreef: Anyone had any luck with getting an ATI Radeon 9550 (or 9600) for that matter to work nicely under Linux (not neccessarily Gentoo specific)? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm I've got a 9800SE (which is essentially the same as a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - xcdroast

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 050906 Holly Bostick wrote: John Dangler schreef: Anyone know why the xcdroast was taken off the mirrors? I did an 'rsync' 2 days ago 'emerge pv xcdroast' looks ok, but perhaps the problem arises during the actual emerging. Gnomebaker seems pretty OK ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Matt Randolph schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Matt Randolph schreef: I don't think Knoppix really has an administrator. It really is an enduser only flavour of Linux. It's sort of a fire and forget distro. Sure, someone had to go to a lot of trouble to get it set up just right

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Martin S schreef: The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and you'll know what I mean).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: snip (Booo) this is where the Gentooers mess their britches? The really sad thing in this whole thread, is nobody has even mentiond which (kernel) sources to use, what to disable/enable and why. Is this some sort of deep secret or is the gentoo community un_caring about

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Hi people, I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. I don't think this is realistic... you are trying to reduce the file

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though possibly the most beautiful postage stamp ever seen)? Is all the data in the original file strictly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl writes: Good morning, this is the general users list. If you want the security experts, try gentoo-security For the discussion of security issues and fixes gentoo-hardened For a security hardened version of Gentoo You

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: That's about the best I can do for you without knowing more about the construction of the file, and what you're trying to do with it. Well, many people have assumed that it being a 5gb+ file, it was a dvd. Definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

2005-09-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Direct from tv? Use avidemux or any video editing program to get rid of the commercials then. Not direct from tv. The people who record (with cameras) and then join the pieces provide this file. I can't do that. The producer

[gentoo-user] Pyopenal, slune, and ebuilding

2005-09-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Hey all, It's a long story, but the short version is, I was trying to emerge slune (a game), which requires soya (the engine), which requires pyopenal (the sound server). But the version of pyopenal in portage wouldn't build against the 'current' (stable + unstable) versions of openal (see

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
renna bud schreef: is there a command to let me know the name and model of my motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks Hi, renna, As far as I know, there is not such a command-- but there is a command to find out the

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger schreef: is there a command to let me know the name and model of my motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks emerge dmidecode This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provide the

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 9/9/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provide the requested information (or at least, not all of it, and what it does provide is difficult to recognize): I know the make and model of my mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

2005-09-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Daevid Vincent schreef: What determines the order that things in rc-update (/etc/init.d) start? I run ifplugd, and I notice that (as the title says), ntp-client is starting before net.eth0 and therefore can't find the pool.ntp.org site (of course). /etc/init.d/ntp-client shows depend()

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

2005-09-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Jes__s Garc__a Crespo (aka Sevein) schreef: Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo in my dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain)

Re: [gentoo-user] Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system?

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
W.Kenworthy schreef: Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system? bunyip ~ # emerge media-tv/mythtv -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r1 +alsa (-altivec) -arts -debug +dvb +frontendonly -jack -joystick +lcd

Re: [gentoo-user] panel error

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: On 9/10/05, *Dave Nebinger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A google search turned up another message: I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There is probably a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Varner schreef: What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in the European pool, but... all of them? Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:58:19 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: // start quote Building the System To start building the system, execute emerge --emptytree system. // end quote So you see, it does tell you to do an emerge --emptytree system, When BUILDING THE

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about no mixer elements and/or device on login

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following likely solutions: 1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about no mixer elements and/or device on login

2005-09-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:59:53 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: Oh, and whatever route you choose, you probably want to remove the mixer from your panel, then re-add it to prevent other panel weirdnesses that seem to occur when you have to do this (which you always do, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: pyrenees:~ # emerge -uNDvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Sébastien MORAND schreef: You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

2005-09-13 Thread Holly Bostick
maxim wexler schreef: Does by respective you mean that youre motherboards from OED: respective, a. Each's own, proper to each, individual, several, comparative... In other words, yes. :-) He compiled the nvidia kernel modules for the nforce mobo, and the ali modules for the ali

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Charles Trois schreef: Hello! I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. If I log in as a plain user (moi),

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: gnome-spell build failing

2005-09-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Nelis Lamprecht schreef: Hi, No takers on the below error ? I've tried removing it completely, re-installing it but still get the same error. I have to skip it every time I upgrade my ports. Didn't see any bugs relating to it either. Nelis No problems here (just emerged it) Merging

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