Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
if it would be worth my while to look around for another cheap modem or wait... if sometime this year a usable (very small volume) support for Class 1 faxes becomes available then that would probably be fine - I've other (less convenient) options which can see me through until then. Steve -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Steve B
On 4/25/05, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 April 2005 10:00, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. Hmm.. this is even simple than using grep or using sed.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers and glx

2005-04-27 Thread Steve B
This occured to me when I upgraded to the 2.6.11 nitro sources... after moving back to gentoo-dev-sources (or gentoo-sources now) the problem went away. On 4/26/05, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Robert Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this too. I believe its the

[gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have a few bespoke XML schema specs, and I want to find a generic tool to construct XML files which are syntactically valid with respect to the schema specs. The schemas represent data-structures for domain specific records with moderately complex structure. It would not make sense to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] XML Editor

2005-05-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
for the suggestions... at least it seems I'm not overlooking the obvious? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] IMAP/Spamassassin/RazorPyzor

2005-05-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
be possible to set-up an internal account spam to which only local users (i.e. myself) can send mail... bounce all my spam there (using the Mail Redirect extension?) - and somehow use procmail to report it? Is there a neater solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Online backups...

2005-05-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I admit that this is a pretty generic idea... but I hope no-one sees harm in me asking about it here... I plan to do this with gentoo... so if someone else has had a similar plan... maybe they could offer me the benefit of their wisdom :-) Assumptions: 1. There are two Linux Hosts

Re: [gentoo-user] # ./CA.pl -newca certification problem

2005-06-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
askar ... wrote: I'm trying to setup email system by reading the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide. I have a problem in section 5. When I do # ./CA.pl -newca have error unable to load certificate 2319:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:637:Expecting:

[gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently discovered a problem doing my periodic emrege -uD world - which looks as if there is some general problem with jade [Attached below - output from the command.] It seems to me that jade is linked against libsop.so.3, however I only appear to have a copy of libsop.so.4. I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
this is a simple issue that packages should now be dependent on openjade and not jade, that the portage tree would have been updated to reflect this? Is this planned? I wonder why it seems to have taken so long? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
with a watermark dating the copy? Is anyone aware of any existing packages - preferably for Gentoo, but any open-source solution would suffice. Thanks in advance for any suggestions :-) Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Document management solution [possibly a bit off-topic...]

2005-09-29 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I think I want a document management solution - though I'm not sure that everyone understands the same idea by the term. This might be overkill: http://www.alfresco.org/ Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Brenneis
WKenworthy wrote: Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Bridge confusion

2005-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
which (without a bridge) are often restricted to a single subnet. I hope that helps? Steve This is the setup i want: Lan 1 Lan 2 eth1---brigdeeth1 || 10.32.0.0/22

[gentoo-user] About a proxy-like idea... (was Shell through the web)

2005-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar

[gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Has anyone any experience in setting up a wireless music streaming device to read MP3 files from a Gentoo installation? These are the kind of devices I have in mind: * Phillips Streamium [ http://en.streamium.com/products/sl50i/ ] * Netgear MP101 [

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... but they're cheaper - retailing at about £80 and I've seen them at £50 on ebay. I prefer the appearance of the MP101 over the Streamium too. I'm sure there are other more expensive options out there too. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Devices to stream music.

2005-10-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
... It would be far easier for me to buy a unit on-sale here in the UK... assuming I can get it to suck tunes from my Gentoo box. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Brenneis
Alexey Asprov wrote: Thanks very much for your replies. It seems that cdrecord has a tough time to coexist with 2.6 kernel series. I have ended up with fireing Kanotix LiveCD, mounting my Gentoo partition and burning new Knoppix 4.0.2 with k3b with some sort of hacked Ubuntu drivers ( cdrecord

[gentoo-user] Ruby Rails and Rake - strange error on Gentoo...

2005-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently started playing around with Ruby and rails under Gentoo. I've installed everything using emerge as opposed to the using ruby gems. While I seem to be able to use my rails application, I get a puzzling error message when I try to verify it using the default generated rakefile

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Steve B
WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced to use canned binaries I might as well go with FC or Debian.. I've never listened to the Gentoo is

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1 now fails...

2005-11-24 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
A few days I 'updated world' and spamassassin 3.04 was replaced by spamassassin 3.1 - after a few minutes spent migrating my configuration (to enable Razor,Pyzor and DCC) all seemed to be working well... but then, after running fine for a day or two, the spamd daemon stopped responding and

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit binary and put it in the tree. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz Thanks Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm getting these three emails every day from ruledujour... I'm using the latest stable ebuild of each i.e.: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8 mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour-20051123 Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? -- Subject: RulesDuJour/gifu:

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Norberto Bensa wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp

[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
'^a' into my .screenrc - but that doesn't do the trick. Does anyone here have the correct incantation? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] AFS...

2007-02-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
When following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml I get as far as # fs setacl -dir /vicepa -acl rl fs:'/vicepa': Function not implemented Why is that? I've googled and can find someone who says that the instructions did not work for him - for the same reason - but there is no hint

[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Long
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing eth0 with wlan0

2007-03-08 Thread Steve L.
On 3/7/07, Abraham Gyorgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again :) I've switched my networking from wired eth0 to wlan0. I'm using ndiswrapper with Win32 driver and an USB WiFi adapter. Everything is fine, but... When I set up my Gentoo installation, I've added net.eth0 to default runlevel (it

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-09 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've used portage to upgrade from Spamassassin 3.1.4 to 3.1.8, and I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. # whoami root # sa-update Can't locate object method finish via package Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout at

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Steve L.
On 3/9/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't sync my portage everyday, I do it when I need a special (last) version of package or when I'm preparing a big update... But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: On 3/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin 3.1.8: sa-update

2007-03-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Thomas Rösner wrote: Dan Farrell schrieb: I'm surprised to find that sa-update now doesn't work for me. [snip] Is there some obvious bit of configuration I'm overlooking? perl-cleaner? I'd not thought of that but... perl-cleaner all has not made any difference... I still get:

[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Mark David Dumlao wrote: A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash compilers for other platforms. :-) Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. There's a lot of good

[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Xavier Parizet wrote: I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or

[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
John covici wrote: checking which gecko to use... firefox checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't built

[gentoo-user] Clamassassin - does anyone know what is wrong?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
#emerge clamassassin Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3 to / * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] *

[gentoo-user] Weird high-level question about an ad-hoc wiki-like database

2007-03-31 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking for a client-server package (preferably with the server on gentoo from portage) which provides something which is vaguely like CRM... but in reverse - and for personal as opposed to corporate use. One requirement is for it to act as an address book that will allow me to associate:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-03 Thread Steve L.
Also having said developers take their point of view (properly referenced and footnoted of course) to their blogs to vent about it and then being syndicated in the Planet Gentoo feed is probably not a good solution either. It leaked out of various clandestine lists and some published lists to

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Emacs in a terminal and intellisense-like functionality.

2007-05-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've a few vaguely related questions. I'm an Emacs user from a decade ago - and have recently returned to using it... I'm trying to set it up as a useful modern development environment. I'd have chosen Eclipse, or something like that, if it wasn't for a constraint that I need it to work remotely

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Dommett
Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: The only problem is that this disk is only 1.4 GB and I want to merge more miniDVD in a single DVD video without making divx or similar. I want to obtain a single DVD (3 miniDVD on a 1 DVD) with chapter, title and so on using the minor loss of data, but I don't

[gentoo-user] Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have some (say 100) discrete data sequences sampling a single analogue system with time-stamp data. I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I could show a strong correlation in the signals between

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Modelling software - free - preferably easy to install under Gentoo.

2007-06-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +, James wrote: Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention Octave... I would like to do some analysis on these signals to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

2007-06-30 Thread Steve Dommett
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really snip Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point? Perhaps Komport will be a nice starting point: http://komport.sourceforge.net/ or maybe Cutecom:

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin

2006-03-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it

[gentoo-user] emerge tinyca fails...

2006-09-26 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
After getting into a real pickle with a kernel upgrade (causing me to corrupt my /dev) I opted to re-install from the latest minimal install CD rather than try to unpick the mess. My gentoo box is used almost exclusively used remotely as a mail/web server - however I find tinyca a very useful

[gentoo-user] Backups... a very general question...

2006-09-27 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've recently been thinking about backup strategy... following a painful re-install after dropping a clanger during a kernel upgrade. While this seems a very basic topic, I can find surprisingly little documentation about this on-line. I need to address several entirely different kinds of

[gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...

2006-10-02 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I've three independent hosts - imaginatively called A, B and C. Firewall rules dictate that A can be directly accessed from B, but not from C... A and B run the openssh sshd, and C is a terminal with a working X-Windows display. C has a ssh session opened with B which tunnels port 22 on C to 22

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD

2006-10-03 Thread Steve McGrath
be the same problem I had with my USB 5-in-1 cardreader. It would only recognize one of the slots until I recompiled the kernel kernel with Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device. It's under Device Drivers-SCSI device support. HTH, -Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me where I've loused-up this apache config?

2006-10-03 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
This time a bamboozling Apache/vhost/https problem. I have a working vhost configuration for several domains in apache2 (latest stable from portage - 2.0.58) and I want to support not only http services, but, for one domain name at least, I want to support an https service. The working

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Evans
rather than the kernel. Steve -- Steve EvansE-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB:http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Evans
missing something from the kernel? Matt I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On my system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist? I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights to /dev/dsp? Steve

[gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I'm familiar with this procmail recipe: -- :0 * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user.gentoo.org | formail +1 -ds gentoo_user -- However... I need to use maildir is there a straightforward way to deliver directly to maildir folders with formail from procmail? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Kevin Fullerton wrote: Here's the procmail recipe I use with maildir folders and the Gentoo lists - I think as long as procmail is setup with maildir support you just need to set your MAILDIR var and use a trailing slash and it knows it'd delivering to a MailDir. A, I guess I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
to set-up - procmail obviously intends to address digest splitting and to support both mbox and maildir delivery... Surely there's a simple solution? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: procmail, formail and maildir for digests...

2006-10-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Moshe Kamensky wrote: The -s option of formail allows you to specify an argument, which is a program name. This program will be run for each message, with the message on the stdin. So if you have such a program that delivers to a maildir, you can use it. procmail itself is one such program,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Evans
to exit from vim with any number of open buffers. Steve -- 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz GNU/Linux 12:32:08 up 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08 It'll be a nice world if they ever get it finished. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] network services break fbsplash silent mode

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Walsh
. Steve Qiangning Hong wrote: On my laptop, I am using silent mode of fbsplash during boot. However, as I have wireless access in my office and wired access in my home (both dhcp), there is always one of the network services, either net.lan or net.wlan, will fail. This will take fbsplash into verbose

[gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
. Performance (primarily with respect to 'new mail' notifications, but also, to a lesser extent, with searching archived messages. I'd be interested to hear any anecdotes from Gentooists who have addressed a similar question recently... Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-17 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Roman Zilka wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: it appears that there is one connection per folder and one process per connection... which seems (to me at least) to be overkill. Having never used dovecot, I can't comment on this. But maybe this

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Régis Décamps wrote: On 10/17/06, Steve [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no longer so sure about when imap processes are spawned or terminated - but there seem to be a non-deterministic lots of them for each Thunderbird session. There is one process create each time Thunderbird opens

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dan Johansson wrote: cross-site-remote-backups Erm, Me too... My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have problems like this? # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE=nls 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-07 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work # sed -i -e '141 aset -x\n' -e '152 aset +x\n' kbd-1.12/configure # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild compile I've followed your suggestion - I was surprised to see sparc64 mentioned - my

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-08 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
by demanding evaluation by bash instead of whatever /bin/sh happens to be... Thanks again, Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Ringwald
the single best piece of software ever written. There is also VMWare server, which is also free, and allows you to create new VMs. It also allows you to script things, and remotely control things (like starting/stopping/suspending VMs). http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ Steve -- gentoo

[gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily

[gentoo-user] Spamassassin / fcron / RulesDuJour

2006-11-15 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Last night my default gentoo RulesDuJour for Spamassassin acquired new Adult and General rule-sets from SARE. Thereafter spamd refused all connections and subsequently received mail was not spam filtered. Issuing '/etc/init.d/spamd restart' as root resolved the situation... but I don't want to

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Steve Brenneis
Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4. On the AMD system, I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine, without any crashing etc, on both my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
of things that can be done, and I've just barely glossed over the basics. Most of the time it comes down to a per-package basis, and usually the case is that there's just no one interested in maintaining it. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Hans de Hartog wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the not_so_common_packages scene. (BTW, how do I check for an overlay somewhere?) - freewheeling (dies in glibc with double free

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let it go. The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Install/config support for audio on my T40

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Dibb
Greg Morin wrote: I've been working w/Gentoo now for a little. Networking, Gnome, OpenOffice, VMWare are working - my essentials are there... I'd like to get sound working, but not sure where to start - pointers? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
that addresses that exact issue soon. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning how to write a simple ebuild?

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
://devmanual.gentoo.org/ If you're still lost, pop in on irc.freenode.net and join #gentoo-dev-help Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Then emerge --sync emerge -Neav world that is overkill, no need to re-emerge the entire tree. emerge -uD world will suffice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile error for Mythtv 0.19_p10505.

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
. This system is a fresh install, so I'm at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. Mike. First of all, fix your VIDEO_CARDS settings (why do you have two?). Then, try with -opengl and -xvmc. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
James wrote: Steve Brenneis sbrenneis at surry.net writes: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib Try revdep-rebuild -p and see if that outputs anything needing to be rebuilt. -Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here is that there is no such thing as kwin.la. I have re-emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-09 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard Thanks again. Looks like they haven't touched

Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
work: # emerge gentoolkit # equery l /tmp/equery # for x in `grep xfce /tmp/equery`; do emerge =$x; done; Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
just want to stick with 0.9.0, then what you had before is correct. =media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 Just make sure there aren't any other entries for ivtv in there. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT DirectPush email and Windows Mobile 5...

2006-12-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I apologise in advance for this question being tenuously related to Gentoo... My justification is only that I really like my Gentoo-based Postfix /dovecot mail-server... but I also want to push emails to a connected Windows Mobile 5 PDA/phone. Historically mobile devices have polled for email

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Dibb
know what systems Gentoo is being used on. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Dibb
attempted such a project? Also, I am running Gentoo amd64, so the app(s) will need to run on that platform. Thanks in advance Sean I would recommend / try tellico. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Evans
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:30, Steve Dibb wrote: Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
days, no bugs, and if someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, and then a dev will keyword it stable. Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any stable requests. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
Steve Dibb wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
Robert Cernansky wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
it works. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
on stabilizing everything just because its been 30 days and 2) we stabilize stuff that people are using anyway, and want to get marked stable. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Evans
in kernel doesn't work well, but fortunately it is being actively worked on by one of the alsa devs, so that version 1.0.14_rc1 of the alsa-driver package is much better than the kernel version. Steve -- Steve EvansE

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches

2007-01-11 Thread Steve Dibb
with kernels =2.6.15. http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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