Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
At Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:46 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped the frustration been there, done that ... and gave up. Write your own scripts and shortcut the

[gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

2008-05-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear all I just emerged lyx and it doesn't work. The issue is class files are missing (one example is scrbook.cls). It should be installed together with lyx but it didn't. I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck

Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

2008-05-06 Thread Justin
Zhang Weiwu schrieb: Dear all I just emerged lyx and it doesn't work. The issue is class files are missing (one example is scrbook.cls). It should be installed together with lyx but it didn't. I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 5 May 2008, 22:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: nazgul screenlets-0.0.2 # echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '1024-blocks' | awk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:07 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}' This uses three commands when one will do, there's no need for cat or grep awk '/^cpu MHz/ {print $4/30 +;}' /proc/cpuinfo Similarly for the free command. Longer isn't always

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 May 2008, 10:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:07 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}' This uses three commands when one will do, there's no need for cat or grep awk '/^cpu MHz/ {print $4/30 +;}' /proc/cpuinfo

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Zdenek Travnicek
I don't know a machine with the name thunderbird :-[ . But I started with Gentoo on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, that's a PIII Copermine 800MHz and 512 MB RAM. In this respect, I can say: Yes, I did. :-) An emerge -e world lasted 11 hours, without OOO, OOO alone needs 16 hours to build,

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Zdenek Travnicek wrote: I don't know a machine with the name thunderbird :-[ . But I started with Gentoo on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, that's a PIII Copermine 800MHz and 512 MB RAM. In this respect, I can say: Yes, I did. :-) An emerge -e world lasted 11 hours, without OOO, OOO alone

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Joe User
Am Montag, 5. Mai 2008 22:00:37 schrieb Willie Wong: echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '1024-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~

Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Hilt
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck equery b scrbook.cls returns dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007 (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls) --

[gentoo-user] Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the j option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: On Tuesday 6 May 2008, 10:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:11:07 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}' This uses three commands when one will do,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Penguin Lover Justin squawked: your virtual p*n*s length: This should answer your question below. But just in case you are one of those male geeks who never get to experience the joy that is the American high school locker room: yes, the jocks do go

Re: [gentoo-user] epson printers using avasys drivers. anyone?

2008-05-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 May 2008, at 04:32, Chuck Robey wrote: ... I've been trying (with no success excepting this longshot, the Epson RX680), to get a Inkjet printer that has duplex (doublesided) printing to admit they have working Linux drivers (really, Gentoo ones). I've found both the Canon PIXMA

[gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation

2008-05-06 Thread reader
Where do I learn how to use elog? googling with `site:gentoo.org elog' only turned up forum conversations. And bug reports... Is there no HOWTO about elog? `man portage' and search on elog shows nothing whatever. Isn't the elog stuff part of portage? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I learn how to use elog? googling with `site:gentoo.org elog' only turned up forum conversations. And bug reports... Is there no HOWTO about elog? `man portage' and search on elog shows nothing whatever. Isn't the elog stuff part

[gentoo-user] stuck with Mysql --config

2008-05-06 Thread Ivan Alden
Hello, I emerged mysql-5.0.54 and when running emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.54 * * ERROR: dev-db/mysql-5.0.54 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_config * environment, line 3312: Called mysql_pkg_config * environment,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Hilt
On Tue, 6 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I learn how to use elog? This may help get you started. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=1 /etc/make.conf.example has some nice ... examples. -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key:

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Jan Seeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:46 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped the frustration been

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
At Tue, 6 May 2008 12:42:15 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: snip, snip Gentoo networking configuration is OK. It works for the most part, but you just need something were you can quickly type a password for a protected WPA network and it connects. Yes, you CAN edit the files by hand and provide

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 May 2008, 13:37, Joe User wrote: fixed some bugs: echo `uptime|sed 's/.*up\s*\([0-9]*\).*/\1\/10+/';grep '^cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo|awk '{print $4/30+;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}';df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs|awk '{if ($1 ~ /dev/(scsi| sd)){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END

Re: [gentoo-user] stuck with Mysql --config

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Ivan Alden wrote: Hello, I emerged mysql-5.0.54 and when running emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.54 * * ERROR: dev-db/mysql-5.0.54 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_config * environment, line 3312: Called

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I would suggest - as long as you live in Sweden - the famous 9-in-1 OEM CD, from your favourite swashbuckling sea-dog. Ar, me hearties!

Re: [gentoo-user] aufs and gentoo-sources

2008-05-06 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McKinnon) writes: On Monday 05 May 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to make aufs work with current gentoo-sources. Unfortunately there is no ebuild available (or I didnt' find it). It's in the sunrise overlay: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it was new from the factory. With this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have given you a prompt. I don't follow Alan. The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to restore the disk to

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 05 May 2008 18:04:42 Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: It gives me ideas, though. One could do that for Linux as well. But then, Who would have their Windows laptop set to boot from the network first? Still, tempting. ;-) OK let's see. Wake on LAN tightly coupled to a hacked PXE? I feel a Pinky and The

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop

[gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

2008-05-06 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwiński
/etc/init.d/vmware start * VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured * for the running kernel. * Please ensure that the modules have been compiled for this kernel: * emerge --oneshot vmware-modules * Also ensure VMware Server has been configured: *

Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

2008-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild  N    ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1  0 kB [blocks B     ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.5.80187) Total: 1 package (1 new, 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle it automatically. That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing with other systems where you might not have GNU tar,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 May 2008 18:19:22 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: As Neil sed GROAN! -- Neil Bothwick If it isn't broken, I can fix it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 May 2008 09:17:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: googling with `site:gentoo.org elog' only turned up forum conversations. And bug reports... Google with site:www.gentoo.org or site:www/gentoo.org/doc for a better signal-to-noise ratio. -- Neil Bothwick ...context...

[gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread David
Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do you make your backups? Any improvements?.

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:44 PM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008, David wrote: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread David
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've

[gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have both

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: If you're using 'dd' does that mean you're copying the entire filesystem and not just the files? I believe that can run you into some issues if the FS isn't read-only...

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ David [gentoo-user] [Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0200]: What kind of issues? The idea is to copy the whole filesystem to another disk and keep it sync. And in case of crisis use dd from the backup to the original disk. I should note I'm assuming you're backing up a mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, David wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 23:54:08 Andrew MacKenzie wrote: +++ David [gentoo-user] [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:44:46PM +0200]: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Ian Hilt
On Tue, 6 May 2008, »Q« wrote: When I try to boot, the word GRUB gets written to the screen over and over and over, filling the screen. Pressing keys, AFAICT so far, doesn't stop this. The screen is just filled with GRUB, and I think it's an ongoing thing because of a little flicker at the

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Sven Köhler
When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could cause

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
Sven Köhler wrote: When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness [solved]

2008-05-06 Thread »Q«
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2008, »Q« wrote: Earlier today, I emerged grub-0.97-r5 on my x86 laptop, replacing 0.97-r4. I didn't run grub and didn't expect anything to be done to my boot partition. Now I've read http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218599,

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

2008-05-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Justin said: www.portagefilelist.de could answer these kinds of questions. But the package you are looking for is dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007. Ian Hilt wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this