Re: [gentoo-user] [Mayb OT]GUI client for Accessing Databases

2006-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Maurice E Johnson wrote: Yeah... quite a few. pgaccess gnomedb mysqltcl mysqltcl-python (dev) mysqlnavigator many, many more... Better to write your own... too easy not to. DataVision (ebuild on b.g.o). Java based. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem

2006-04-23 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Today, I updated my system. Among the updates were a kernel update, a firefox update and an mplayer update. Everything seems to be working fine except that I can't get the mplayer plugin to work properly in Firefox. After updating everything and compiling and booting to the new kernel, I re

[gentoo-user] Midnight Commander Light for Gentoo?

2006-04-23 Thread Marián Hercek
Is there a ebuild for Midnight Commander Light? Port (for FreeBSD) exists. It's quite interesting clone of MC because of highlighting files by their extension. Somehow cannot find homepage of MC light. begin:vcard fn:Marian Hercek n:Hercek;Marian org:Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda;Vypoctove

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution

2006-04-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Download version 1.9 from GnuPG's website and install it. GnuPG 1.9 is in ~x86. If you add it to your keywords file, you'll get it. I find it curious that such a problem is living in current source repository for Gentoo. What problem? > I'm positive this isn'

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Chen Yufei
First thanks! As Mrugesh mentioned rp-pppoe-3.8, I took a look in the rp-pppoe ebuild file and found this, "Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file for all network interfaces. Please use baselayout adsl module for configuring your network using rp-pppoe or, better yet, use generic PPP s

[gentoo-user] Cron problem

2006-04-23 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
For the last few days I have had a cron problem. It started when I was trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script. Don't know what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a notice like the following: =

Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki

2006-04-23 Thread Ric de France
Hi Sergio, On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I got the error "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical > difficulties, and cannot contact the database server". > As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password > algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've rem

Re: [gentoo-user] [Mayb OT]GUI client for Accessing Databases

2006-04-23 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Yeah... quite  a few. pgaccess gnomedb mysqltcl mysqltcl-python (dev) mysqlnavigator many, many more... Better to write your own... too easy not to. On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 11:58 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi guys, Is there any available Free and Open Source GUI clients for accessing Databas

[gentoo-user] [Mayb OT]GUI client for Accessing Databases

2006-04-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi guys, Is there any available Free and Open Source GUI clients for accessing Databases? MySQL/Postgres/MSSQL/Oracle Would prefer it to not be web-based like phpmyadmin. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:56:42 up 2 days

[gentoo-user] Network usage monitor

2006-04-23 Thread JimD
Are there any network monitoring apps in gentoo that will show processes and how much network usage they are using? I don't need anything fancy, just something like: PID COMMAND Bandwidth 7866 mplayer 55kbs 7899 rufus198kbs ... Thanks, JimD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-23 Thread Teresa and Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > > > >>And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial insist on installing all >>this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my serial port hardware >>care if I can look at an xterm or not? >> >>I tried USE="-X" but

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 24 April 2006 9:11 am, Mick wrote: > > If I were to delete something it has to be the lot. Which directory > am I supposed to rm? Before you do that try emerge metadata or emerge sync -- Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react. pgpGontcxyAOM.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Maurice Johnson
ok, I have seen this befor. Try rebuilding the existing portage tree on your system... # emerge meta-data Make note of ant errors. ciao On 4/23/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To me that doesn't look like filesystem stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial insist on installing all > this X stuff? More than 90 Megs! What does my serial port hardware > care if I can look at an xterm or not? > > I tried USE="-X" but it just ignored me :^( S

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to find why I am unable to use GnuPG-agent to sign my > messages in KMail, and rather have to type in a password in all the time > through KGPG. The problem is that the GnuPG agent in the x86 area is version > 1.4.2.2, ye

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me that doesn't look like filesystem stuff. I think something murdered > your portage cache. I'd try and axe the whole thing (if possible) and > rebuild it all. Could take a long time, but it could work. > > Also, if those two packa

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:08 pm, Mick wrote: > On 23/04/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I run eix-sync instead. I just ran it with no problems here. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > Sorry, I should have said, I ran eix-sync -v first and after a little > while I also tried to ru

[gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution

2006-04-23 Thread lordsauronthegreat
I've been trying to find why I am unable to use GnuPG-agent to sign my messages in KMail, and rather have to type in a password in all the time through KGPG. The problem is that the GnuPG agent in the x86 area is version 1.4.2.2, yet KMail demands verison 1.9 I don't think it wise to change to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

2006-04-23 Thread maxim wexler
> > > As I recall I completey destroyed the boot > partition > > on a brand new HD while fumbling with GRUB. But it > was > > still under warranty "Whew!" > > Using the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation > CD would restore > it. Not this time! Even the diagnostic floppy from the Maxtor si

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run eix-sync instead. I just ran it with no problems here. > > Hope this helps, > Mark Sorry, I should have said, I ran eix-sync -v first and after a little while I also tried to run emerge --sync. I got the same errors on both occasions. J

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dub VHS to DVD with Gentoo?

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 4/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of any hardware and software that can be used to transfer VHStapes to DVDs using Gentoo Linux on x86 hardware?--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Your best bet is to get a video capture card.  I'd recommend Hauppauge cards.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.14 splash

2006-04-23 Thread JimD
Andrew Frink wrote: On 4/22/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Every time I start gnome the pretty splash comes up but it won't go away until I click on it.  Has anyone see this oddity?  If so, is there a cure? Thanks, JimD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list disabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Shields
On 4/22/06, Maxime Robert-Schreyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: b.n. wrote:> Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:>>> Abhay Kedia wrote:> On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:>>> Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) >> Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame su

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.14 splash

2006-04-23 Thread Andrew Frink
On 4/22/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Every time I start gnome the pretty splash comes up but it won't go awayuntil I click on it.  Has anyone see this oddity?  If so, is there a cure? Thanks,JimD--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listdisable it compleatly in your session settingslove and kisse

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. > (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying > that "net.ppp0 is

[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Sven Köhler
> Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up > eth0 directly. No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin. rp-pppoe is not needed anymore! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
I run eix-sync instead. I just ran it with no problems here. Hope this helps, Mark On 4/23/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it tries to update its cache after an emerge --sync it comes up > with a load of errors like so: > == > Literal data: 5903578 bytes > Matched dat

[gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
As it tries to update its cache after an emerge --sync it comes up with a load of errors like so: == Literal data: 5903578 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3297486 Total bytes written: 36921 Total bytes read: 5388275 wrote 36921 bytes read 5388275 bytes 37544.61 by

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Chen Yufei wrote: > > > (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying > that "net.ppp0 is started but is inactive" This is my /etc/conf.d/net > > modules=( "iproute2") > > config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" ) > > config_ppp0=( "ppp" ) > link_ppp0="eth0" > plugins_ppp0=( "pppoe"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/04/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:20 +0200 > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Apr 23 01:01:01 lappy smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8 > > > > Try checking and cha

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to > be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read > and write easily to vfat. FAT has a 4GB file size limit under Windows, 2GB under Linux, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IrDA crashes every time

2006-04-23 Thread Mick
On 23/04/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:20 +0200 > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Apr 23 01:01:01 lappy smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8 > > Try checking and changing BIOS settings for IRDA IO port, IRQ settings > and DMA an

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Chen Yufei wrote: > > > (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying > that "net.ppp0 is started but is inactive" This is my /etc/conf.d/net > > modules=( "iproute2") > > config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" ) > > config_ppp0=( "ppp" ) > link_ppp0="eth0" > plugins_ppp0=( "pppoe"

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:57, Chen Yufei wrote: > I use adsl to connect to the internet and I use rp-pppoe in the past. > But I found in the /etc/conf.d/net.example that the rp-pppoe module > "is being deprecated in favour of the PPP module". So I tried to use > ppp to dialup the adsl connection

[gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Chen Yufei
I use adsl to connect to the internet and I use rp-pppoe in the past. But I found in the /etc/conf.d/net.example that the rp-pppoe module "is being deprecated in favour of the PPP module". So I tried to use ppp to dialup the adsl connection and succeeded. But I have 2 questions now. (1) Why rp-pp