Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

On 7/7/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4 programming setup

On 7/8/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have qt3 and qt4 installed (?): x11-libs/qt Installed versions: 3.3.8-r2 4.2.3-r1 So I picked up what looks like an interesting book on C++ and QT4 part of the Bruce Perens Open Source series. Looking at the brief installation guide it te

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

On 7/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:57, sain yan wrote: > >Because you didn`t mount /boot? > > Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec 0 0 It's not an error really. You are not meant to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/modules.d how to understand

On 7/17/07, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'd like to understand the "magic" of files in /etc/modules.d How to write such an 'alias' line. Can anybody point me to a HowTo? E.g. in kernel 2.6.22 there is no more an option to select a USB-WACOM tablet input. I've built the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation problems)

On 7/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:35 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: > Installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotswapable Drive

On 7/25/07, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I'd like to know what's the current best practice to handle a hotswapable SATA-drive. It's the optical drive of my Dell Latitude D520 laptop, the so called Media Bay. If I plug it in while the system is online, it is not recognized. Und

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

On 7/25/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Dommett wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. >> > Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for > months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own lapt

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

On 7/26/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent Fredric wrote: > > Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug > it in and see if you get any sound. > My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works > fine, and ksc

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

On 7/28/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we're on the subject... > > I'd like to the free software user community. Free software would be > meaningless without you. I especially appreciate the users who have > > * Used free software. > * Submitted bug reports, ide

Re: [gentoo-user] Receiving GWN via email?

On 7/28/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 28. Juli 2007, Billy McCann wrote: > > Hi. Could someone confirm that they are receiving the GWN to their > > inbox, so that I'll know it's just me not getting it? That'd be > > swell. > > > > I don't receive it too. > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile eix

On 7/28/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a much abused gentoo system on which I was trying to update eix. > I get quite a few errors and i am not sure how far back up the output to > go. Heres the last bits anyway. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix > that? > > ../../src/searc

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

On 7/28/07, Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow! Thanks for the help. See my comments below pertaining to individual > remarks. > --greg > > Alex asked: > > is is possible that you saved the text file in DOS format, with CR-LF > > endings instead of LF only? > > > > If "od -t x2 hello

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

On 7/29/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > try a plain old bash script and see if that works, and try this and > > see if it works: > > > > cat >> testrun.c > > #include > > int ma

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsprogs

On 7/29/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Were are the docs for the utilities for sys-fs/reiserfsprogs ? > > I cannot seem to locate any documentation of running fsck or such > utilities manually on a reiserfs partition. I want to read about > what those utilities are and how they w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running Scripts

On 7/29/07, Moshe Kamensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > * Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/07/07 12:18]: > > Hello- > > > > I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am > > having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, > > hello.py

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

On 7/30/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5) If (2) indicates corruptions that can only be corrected by --rebuild-tree >a) If you suspect your hardware is failing -- replace it. reiserfs doesn't > like bad hardware and continuing the recovery process on it will likely ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

On 7/31/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > > > > I've never seen starting up X/kde cause a system to hang before... > > > > Is the whole system handing, or just X? > > > The entire system latches up tight, even the ssh remote shells and conso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

On 8/1/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent Fredric gmail.com> writes: > > > > > X/kde runs fine, but when I exit it now, the system latches up, tight > > > all ssh sessions, the console, everything. > > Now X/kde will not start. Everything latch

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

On 8/1/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/genkernel.conf # Run 'make menuconfig' before compiling this kernel? MENUCONFIG="no" # Run 'make clean' before compilation? # If set to NO, implies MRPROPER WILL NOT be run # Also, if clean is NO, it won't copy over any configuration # fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache not compiling

On 8/1/07, Alessandro del Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, when I try to compile Apache, I get this error. > > those are use flags, I try some configuratiosn but always get an error > zombie ~ # grep apache /etc/portage/package.use > www-servers/apache -doc -apache2 -ssl -mpm-itk -mpm-le

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache not compiling

On 8/1/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/07, Alessandro del Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, when I try to compile Apache, I get this error. > > > > those are use flags, I try some configuratiosn but always get an error > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache not compiling

On 8/2/07, Alessandro del Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did built it with mpm-prefork >http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mpm.html > > but it failed: >http://pastebin.com/m7096a3ad > > I have some trouble with other configures (gstreamer and gtk+ ) > > for that I posted this

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

On 8/2/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mittwoch, 1. August 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 8/1/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > /etc/genkernel.conf > > > > > > # Run 'make menuconfig&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

On 9/12/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:20:16 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > it works for several people in the nvidia forum. With no 'it does not > > work' messages. > > If we're taking a vote, it "works for me" too, although the option is > -ignoreA

Re: [gentoo-user] How to minimise resource usage during emerge

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Yeah, funny that. Maybe you can write the new RFC to synchronize all reply > mail to all other replies anywhere in the world. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > When they figure out how to use quantum entangl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:27 PM, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, why catfighting now? > > Because all the guys here are probably really lesbians trapped in mens bodies. :) -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| print "enNOSPicAMreil [EMAIL PROTECTED]"[

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. That list is not intended for users, but for developers. > > Hrm. I thought this was gentoo-user , which I thought was one of many places (gentoo-user)'s can ask for help on various subjects. 'gentoo-user | General

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh wait, my confusion. You were possibly referring explicitly to whom should and should not be on the linux dev ml. ( If otherwise, please do unset my fail bit i just assigned on myself ) -- Kent ruby -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM, David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:14:47 b.n. wrote: > > Frankly, the more you challenge him this mindless way, the more I > > believe him. > > If you think in such backwards logic then I don't care who you believe. > > A apo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/9/17 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This is after many requests from others for you to calm down on the list > > *mumble mumble mumble* > > > two private mails from myself asking the same, both of which you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

On 2/11/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Changed behaviour of emerge --tree???

On 2/18/07, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am quite sure that "emerge --uupdate --deep --newuse --tree world" previously just showed what it would do (in reverse order). It implied --pretend. But now suddenly it starts to actually build stuff. Is something broken or has emerge been changed int

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

no clue what exactly is happening and now, I'm frequently getting pissed at it and kill it. This is version 0.2.16 in portage BTW How often do people here actually -use- beagle? I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the default short cut for it and the memory usage it req

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

/etc/genkernel.conf MENUCONFIG="no" MRPROPER="no" CLEAN="no" BOOTSPLASH="no" SAVE_CONFIG="yes" DEBUGLEVEL=5 BOOTLOADER="grub" USECOLOR="yes" cd /usr/src/linux zcat /proc/config.gz > .config make oldconfig genkernel --kernname=WhateverFitsMyMood all the above gives you you the power to configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

sorry, top posted :S... damn gmail & forgetting. -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| print "enNOSPicAMreil [EMAIL PROTECTED]"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

Quite Erroneous Debate? > > Jakub is no longer a bug-wrangler, or a dev, he retired last month. > > Ah, good things still happen ? ;P Jakub was very good at his job, but he does have an attitude problem. Are you trying to emulate him, you are already halfway there? Give the guy a break :P. W

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

On 5/31/07, Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:24 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 > > May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

> > Bug reports need to be thorough. If they do not provide enough > > information to reproduce a bug, or at least explain exactly what is > > going on, then it is hard for the developers and bug > squashers to do > > anything about it. > > Sometimes, as the reported, you miss some important thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I tell you a secret: even with all its quirks and defects, Gentoo has one of the more friendly and helpful communities in the OSS world. Try have a look at the Debian, OpenBSD or Slackware forums/ml/IRC channels, and you'll understand. I concur,

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What flexibility do I take away exactly ? And what exactly gets harder ? Automated building of dependant packages Gentoo has a collection of magic script that do make this nice for us. ie ( last I looked anyway ) java-config and autoconf

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What flexibility do I take away exactly ? > >And what exactly gets harder ? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/9/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the case of autoconf, im personally glad it all hides under one > non-linear space-time-continumum on my harddrive ;) . The thought of > them all being in sep

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, but you see, in half the cases there is not a /complete/ > incompatibility. PHP4<->5 migration is not an entirely big switch, > the biggest problem IIRC in the 4->

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/9/07, Zachary Grafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 08 June 2007 19:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, »Q« wrote: > > In , > > > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Freitag, 8. Juni 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/9/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent Fredric ha scritto: > On 6/8/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ( probably releated to it being a > generally harder distro to use that *cough* ewwbuntu *cough* > unlinspired *cough* or *cough* deadrat *cough* ) OT:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/9/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent Fredric wrote: > On 6/9/07, Zachary Grafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 08 June 2007 19:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> Maybe someone should submit a bug report > > http://www.xkcd.com

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's "Connecting"

On 6/10/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me what Firefox is doing when it says it is > > > "Connecting" to a particular website? My site is periodically hanging > > > at that point, and I'd like to track down the problem. Is it just > > > waiting for apache2's first re

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about glsa-check

On 6/10/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The last several times I've run glsa-check, it's recommended that I emerge a package that portage claims is already installed on my system: camille ~ # glsa-check -t all This system is affected by the following GLSAs: 200705-03 camille ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Firefox's "Connecting"

On 6/10/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can anyone tell me what Firefox is doing when it says it is > > > > > "Connecting" to a particular website? My site is periodically hanging > > > > > at that point, and I'd like to track down the problem. Is it just > > > > > waiting for ap

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about glsa-check

On 6/10/07, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent Fredric writes: > On 6/10/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The last several times I've run glsa-check, it's > > recommended that I emerge a package that portage > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/11/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > Genoo > Everything. given Everything = Gentoo + Debian + RedHat + ..., let EverythingElse = Everything - Gentoo; then Gentoo > Everything =~ Gentoo > Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

On 6/13/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, this isn't really about slots vs. no slots, but shows that slots are not necessary. cu Well, IMO everything should be slotted 100% every version able to be installed in parallel, and packages depend on version, and versions with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

On 6/13/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's take an different part of life, not computers, take policits. I'm an elected representative. I have to decide lots of things here. Normally somebody brings some proposable we should vote on. Usually we t

Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter

On 6/13/07, Abraham Marín Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you checked that document's Excel format? Maybe KSpread can't read it because of a too new Excel format, try re-saving it in an older one. If anybody finds something that will read the new "OpenXML" document that the new $MS's is c

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mails?

On 6/14/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Is it just me, or is the list sending out duplicate mails? For example, I have received two of every post today on the M$ Excel document converter thread alan -0.5 here ( so when you add my dupes together you'll get a -1 ;) ) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products

On 6/14/07, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, guys I hope some of you won't find this message too much spam-alike. Today I accidentally found there is a petition on-line [1]. It represents a request to Blizzard to include Linux installers in their products. I thought the gamers from th

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

On 6/14/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 070614 Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: > I cannot emerge --sync , as this brings out the following error : > Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): -- snip -- > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/var/ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

On 6/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': > Suppose you've got the following "use case": Install all of > KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. > > How would

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

On 6/17/07, Steve [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 co

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.7 : slow shutdown

On 6/18/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: KDE 3.5.7 is significantly slower than 3.5.6 to shutdown (15 sec, was 5 sec). I use 'startx' from a raw console to start it & 'logout' from the KDE menu to close it (then shutdown from the console). There are various apps running on desktops, but

Re: [gentoo-user] skype

On 6/18/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17 June 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > Well skype upgraded this morning to version 1.4.0.74 and it aint working. > When I tried running it from the command line I get the following: > /opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdesktop fails

On 6/18/07, dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is from emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686) = System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2900+ Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel heat warnings at low temps

On 6/27/07, James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > What has the hdd temp to do with cpu tmeprature? > > [...] > > > hddtemp and cputemp are completly and totally unrelated. > > [.

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Relay - What Happened?

On 6/29/07, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > You have problems with client restrictions. > It is very weird that spammer haven't attacked your server since November. Thanks for your help Vladimir, I believe my e-mail server is secure now! -- Randy Barlow http://

Re: [gentoo-user] fragmented data

On 6/29/07, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > And when you have fragmented data something like 5mb/sec sustained is hard to > achieve . Is there a utility to defrag reiserfs filesystems? What about ext filesystems? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.c

Re: [gentoo-user] eaccelerator messes up virtual webapps

On 6/30/07, Christoph Erdle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I encountered a really annoying behavior of eccelerator. On my server I run several installs of wordpress using gentoo's webapp-config, all up to the same version. When the cache is empty all works as expected, it caches the called php

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

On 7/4/07, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed directgories and get a browser pointing to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

On 7/4/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. I see peopl

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

On 7/3/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: > from 'info sed' -> Examples > > #! /bin/sh > # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] > (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the > sed info page ;p ) WOW!

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

On 7/5/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: > If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory > without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats > potentially incompatible with a given system (

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

On 7/5/07, Paul Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > emerge is along the same lines. "make menuconfig" is the limits of my > expertise. I remember "RPM hell" with Redhat linux, trying to find an > RPM package for a program I wanted,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Storing ssh and gpg keys in USB flash drives

On 7/5/07, José González Gómez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I would like to store my ssh and gpg keys in my usb flash drive, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do it: If I use vfat so I can also read them from Windows I have two problems: first you must mount your USB key with a 00

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage

I had a similar issue a while back, but it 'fixed itself', but Im unsure if the bug was fixed or it was something I did. My analyisis pointed to it doing a lot of work scanning/registering hotkeys or something. On 12/31/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Since Yahoo went out of portage, I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused about gnome-icon-theme version?

On 12/31/06, Mark M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/31/06, Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme > > Searching... > > [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] > > [ Applica

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That should at least be a good starting point :) On 1/1/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now it pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

On 1/10/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:09:46 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86" is excessive. "=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8" is > all that is needed for the package.keywords file. You are assuming that make.conf contains ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On 1/9/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 00:25, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:17:59PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > > Not really all kind of completion, but I noticed that it froze on > > trivial completions (the kind that should work

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

On 1/10/07, Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, list. I'm running Gentoo on my box, and got (almost) everything on ~x86, with the exception of gcc, glibc and binutils, as these have rendered my box completely b0rked in the past. (un?)fortunately, this machine has an nvidia graphics d

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

On 1/9/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at > all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On 1/10/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > > Interesting to note, with Bash-3.2 & 2006-03-01 Bash-Completion, > you'll find if you check your latest /etc/skel/.bashrc which is > provided to new users now completel

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo cannot boot (Help!!!)

On 1/10/07, rami jiossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi; i am booting gentoo on my Napa machine but it freezes on "copying read-write contents to tmpfs". any help? i am using gentoo i686 livecd. with minimal-x86 i am booting fine, but it keeps failing in installer and sometimes decides to shutd

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

On 1/10/07, Korthrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have any clue what put: PANTS=ON into my environment? google is failing me here =/ Thanks -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list no clue,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

On 1/10/07, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 08:55 schrieb ext Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D): > I would say that most replies only reply to maybe a few lines of the > preceeding message and so should usually fit on a reasonably sized > window. Then one should d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

On 1/10/07, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 09:42 schrieb ext Kent Fredric: > > Bye... > > > > Dirk > > -- > > Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 > > Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

On 1/11/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Well, I knew you'd need a ADSL modem. Some of these (IIRC ours even) can > be configured to handle all the pppoe-ness and simply provide an ethernet > connection. Depending on your servi

Re: [gentoo-user] struggles with SATA

On 1/11/07, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using an AsRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard and a Western Digital sata drive, I have been having alot of trouble. I found AHCI driver to work, at least detect the drive/partitions. I have had no end of problems. I had moved this drive from a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

On 1/12/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in You may find sys-process/ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

On 1/13/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You may want to reconsider this. I have googleearth installed here and it doesn't get along well with portage and it's digest checking. Of course, it doesn't like my dial-up either. LOL It would appear google has updated their package without chang

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey opens dozens of really empty windows and blocks

On 1/14/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my seamonkey suddenly opened dozens of really empty windows (no content, no title) w/ a fiew px size only and now blocks. Does anyone have an idea where this problem might come from ? FIrefox did it a while back for me too, had the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both binary and from source. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. At first i thought it wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [I--] [ ~] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 (0) See how you get on with 1.56, 1.52 is at least 3 months old now, and ive not seen any issues myself with 1.56. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

On 1/16/07, Vlad Dogaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Browsing getoo-wiki.com for an image viewer, I only found Gthumb, which depends on GNOME. I use Fluxbox because I have an older computer and would like to keep dependencies at a minimum. Any suggestions? I only need a viewer; organising m

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

On 1/16/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kent Fredric wrote: > * cacaview : for days you want to demostrate how much free time geeks > have and nothing else feels like working cos your stuck on a wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

On 1/16/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: why not use imagemagick's "display" command? I believe that has an ugly menu which seems to think you want to edit the photo -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

On 1/17/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I am having difficulty emerging this package which is needed for spamassassin and others. Here is what I get: >>> Emerging (1 of 15) dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01 to / >>> Downloading >>> 'ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/distfiles/

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

On 1/17/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cd /usr/portage/distfiles sudo wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/HTML-Tree-3.1901.tar.gz then try :) I find that repository is more reliable than any other in time of need. Just self correcting, no need to type exit afte

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

On 1/17/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, that did it -- I put it in my gentoo mirrors as well. I sometimes find things totally skip your conventional mirror list for whatever reason, and thus dont check gentoo distfiles. On such occasions, I often find gentoo distfiles still works

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

On 1/17/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I try to emerge lftp I get Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.48.66|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done.==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /lftp/old ... done. ==> PASV ... done.==> R

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

On 1/17/07, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please, recommend me clean free monospaced _condensed_ TTF. The thing is, I was using the font as, for example, is shown here: http://gaydenko.com/qloud/screenshots/shot01.png Few years ago I have "condensed" some font (don't remember which)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

On 1/17/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/digitaljackal/4-1.jpg Just giving links to where i scored the awesome WP from: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31379355/ http://aeiko.net/desktopography/ -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gent

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