Re: [gentoo-user] eix corruption?

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: This was caused by a change to the portage metadata format. I believe the solution is to add 'PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="backport"' to your /etc/eixrc. That was the ticket : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
Nick Rout wrote: you could take a look at roundcube.net Your the second person to mention roundcube. Has everyone heard of Roundcube but me? : ) It looks nice and I will go check it out. I am connecting to courier imap on the same box with some very large (read: owned by a lazy b'stard) m

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
kashani wrote: Moving on to the webmail bit, I like Roundcube as well. My personal server is completely overbuilt so it seems as snappy as Squirrel. If you're using PHP 4.4, I'd install pecl-apc which should speed things up greatly. pecl-apc has *issues* with PHP 5.1.x especially if you'r

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The output of ASP.Net is trash. Most notably it doesn't gracefully degrade as the browser loses features, and generates unnecessary round-trips to the server. That was true for *Microsoft's* ASP.Net 1.1. The output HTML for the MS supplied controls was pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] eix corruption?

2006-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:41, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] eix corruption?': > After running eix-sync, I now get corrupted output. I no longer get the > correct information in the ebuilds. This has happened to me a few > times. Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote: Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23:37, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail': > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > What other style is there besides procedural? > > A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like > you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On 02/05/06, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello. > > On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters" > (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather > strange way. > > Eg.: > [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (07

Re: [gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble

2006-05-02 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 10:37, Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: > Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: > > Usage: /usr/sbin/apache2 [-D name] [-d directory] [-f file] > > [-C "directive"] [-c "directive"] > >

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Walter
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:07, Martin S wrote: > Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain isn't acting normally (so > searching on the forums didn't solve anything either) :( > I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 256 MB USB stick > > I've got > > /dev/sda/mnt/usb

[gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-02 Thread Martin S
Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain isn't acting normally (so searching on the forums didn't solve anything either) :(I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 256 MB USB stickI've got /dev/sda    /mnt/usb    vfat    noauto,user 0 0 in /etc/fstaband in fd

Re: [gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: > Usage: /usr/sbin/apache2 [-D name] [-d directory] [-f file] > [-C "directive"] [-c "directive"] > [-k start|restart|graceful|stop] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Rout
you could take a look at roundcube.net There is an ebuild referred to in bugzilla (which actually points to an svn server somewhere else). I installed it a day or so ago. the postinstall instructions needed some tweaking (mainly quoting on the mysql commands) but sorry i didn't make notes. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
Michael Sullivan wrote: What other style is there besides procedural? A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes web app development *event* oriented. You write event handlers to handle certain events like

Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 23:14 -0400, Jim wrote: > Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more > modern than > SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the > interface too old > and outdated. > > I also looking into the code to see if I could fres

Re: [gentoo-user] eix corruption?

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
JimD wrote: After running eix-sync, I now get corrupted output. I no longer get the correct information in the ebuilds. This has happened to me a few times. Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there some quick fix? I don't know if this is eix or emerge causing the problem. I just did e

Re: [gentoo-user] Any ideas on when net-misc/asterisk-1.2.7 will be unmasked?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/2/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a little confused because Asterisk 1.2.7 is the latest according to their website, and 1.2.5 was the previous version. Yet the ebuilds go steadily from 1.0.7 through 1.0.10 and then there's nothing till this hard masked 1.2.7 version... :-\

[gentoo-user] eix corruption?

2006-05-02 Thread JimD
After running eix-sync, I now get corrupted output. I no longer get the correct information in the ebuilds. This has happened to me a few times. Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there some quick fix? * net-www/netscape-flash Available versions: !6.0.79 !6.0.81 !7.0.25 !7.0.61 !7.0.63

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Santiago del Castillo
But if i just do that, only the new mails are going to be redirected, not the ones that already arrived :( Santiago John Jolet wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:58, Delca wrote: > >>i mispelled my problem, sorry :P >> >>i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for >>example [

[gentoo-user] Web mail

2006-05-02 Thread Jim
Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up. From a quick look, the code is based on really

Re: [gentoo-user] Any ideas on when net-misc/asterisk-1.2.7 will be unmasked?

2006-05-02 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm a little confused because Asterisk 1.2.7 is the latest according to > their website, and 1.2.5 was the previous version. Yet the ebuilds go > steadily from 1.0.7 through 1.0.10 and then there's nothing till this hard > maske

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 14:29 +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Sunday, April 30 2006 14:21, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > > momentarily glad > > I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel > > system.

[gentoo-user] Any ideas on when net-misc/asterisk-1.2.7 will be unmasked?

2006-05-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
I'm a little confused because Asterisk 1.2.7 is the latest according to their website, and 1.2.5 was the previous version. Yet the ebuilds go steadily from 1.0.7 through 1.0.10 and then there's nothing till this hard masked 1.2.7 version... :-\ Is this package not being actively maintained anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (Linux) surveillance system?

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Jeff wrote: >Hello all. > >In the pursuit of a light physical security solution, I was wondering - >does anyone recommend a small-time nanny-cam or web cam monitoring >system that can run atop Linux and accessed using a web browser? We're >looking to beef up physical security to our server room, b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:09, Leopold Gouverneur wrote: > How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. > Thanks. very strange - unmerged gentoo-kernel a long time ago and it never tried to install them again..

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Walter
for (nearly) identical hardware i use the following commands (from a live distro like knoppix) // create compressed and splitted image dd if=/dev/sd? | gzip -c | split -b 699m - /space/for/imagefiles/image.gz. < don't forget that last dot // verify cat /space/for/imagefiles/imag

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone use this HDD enclosure?

2006-05-02 Thread Ian Kabeary
Does the hard drive get warm without a fan?That is the one thing I dont like about this thing. :)~IanOn 5/2/06, K Barter < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/1/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The subject says it all. Its a Vantec Netstar 3 eSATA & USB 2.0 Aluminum 3.5 Enclosure.I dont antic

RE: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
IMHO, VMWare is well worth the selling price. This is one of the most useful, robust, solid, and transparent products I've ever used. Granted, I use it on an XP host with Gentoo in a VM, but I am just blown away every time I think about what it's doing and enabling me to do.  The fact that t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Leopold Gouverneur wrote: except that emerge --sync delete package.provided so I must recreate it before running emerge -upD world! There is something weird here. You need to put it in /etc/portage/package.provided. If you put it in the profile then yes, it will be overwritten by an emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:28:20AM +0200, Leopold Gouverneur wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:23:49PM -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: > > On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > > >from ftp.kernel.org).I

RE: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Fernando Ferrari
This is a excelent article http://es.geocities.com/linuxeando/partimage.html Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com -Mensaje original- De: Ronald V. Vazquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 02 de Mayo de 2006 10:19 a.m. Para: gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:58, Delca wrote: > i mispelled my problem, sorry :P > > i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for > example [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell > sendmail to send the mails! :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Messengers - AIM, YIM, LIM?

2006-05-02 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On 5/2/06, Dave Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Could some one please recommend a very clean but as much fuctions as > the below servers allow: GAIM is pretty popular, and I like it. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ I have been

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:23:49PM -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: > On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > >from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. > > Try 'equery depends gentoo-sources'

[gentoo-user] Webapp-config trouble

2006-05-02 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, cgiirc-0.5.8 got installed as part of the regular update world cycle yesterday. It was slotted alongside 0.5.7. At first, I noticed that the vhosts USE flag was turned on when 0.5.8 got installed. So I re-emerged it with -vhosts. After that, I unmerged cgiirc-0.5.7. Tried to start apache w

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I tried your tip, using all sorts of keyboard layouts (Generic 101 / 104 / 105 key, Logitech Cordless + Cordless Pro), US English, with or without international variant/dead characters, but no joy so far. What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, while all other applic

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: > >First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for >good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her >machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your >boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take

Re: [gentoo-user] Messengers - AIM, YIM, LIM?

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Moore
On 5/2/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Could some one please recommend a very clean but as much fuctions as the below servers allow: GAIM is pretty popular, and I like it. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Joe Menola
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:42 pm, David Miller wrote: > Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described.  It > requires a linux server to serve the images I believe.  There may be a way > to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described. http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:18, Teresa and Dale wrote: > I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if > it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the > first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little > interaction from me. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Thierry de Coulon wrote: > >I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap >pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... > > I got you there. ;-) >I know if two ways that (might) work: > >a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has >> already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to >> working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Based on the suggestions of Uwe and Vladimir, I tried trap 'pkill -TERM -P $$; kill -s TERM $$' TERM . /path/to/child.sh Doesn't work, yet. Note that child.sh is a shell script that may execute some other command (lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Hi, > > OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has > already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to > working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this > happens again, this is wind

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread David Miller
Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described.  It requires a linux server to serve the images I believe.  There may be a way to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described.Otherwise the not free/opensource solution is Norton Ghost. --DavidOn 5/2/06, Teresa and D

[gentoo-user] Messengers - AIM, YIM, LIM?

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Could some one please recommend a very clean but as much fuctions as the below servers allow: Yahoo Instant Messanger Aol Instant Messanger Live Instant Messanger <--MSN is now moving to Live ... Thanks very much ahead of time! Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/2/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so i

[gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Hi, OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather than later too. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Delca
i mispelled my problem, sorry :P i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell sendmail to send the mails! :( I tryed running your command and there was a little pr

[gentoo-user] Strangely encoded filenames with special characters

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters" (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather strange way. Eg.: [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm, Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schw

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread gjiro
you might check out: DAR (Disk ARchive) - http://dar.linux.free.fr/ and SaraB - http://sarab.sourceforge.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Marc Redmann
> How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. man portage, look for package.provided ... brgds, Marc ___ Gesendet vo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:09:44 +0200 "Leopold Gouverneur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources > from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Something will always try to pull it in. But you can tell portage that it's t

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:03, S. Schwartz wrote: > Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to > > gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. > > And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: > > media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 > > media-video/nvidia-kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 11:51, S. Schwartz wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? > > 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. > > As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or > load afterwards. Only one ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/2/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display "ccda:///dev/hda". Check this old thread: http://threa

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:02, Conneries wearegeeks wrote: > > is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? > > Yes, twinview doesn't work properly with the 8756 version. I had to fall > back to the previous version. the previous version would be 8178 ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On 02/05/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage > > system that can take > 2gb files > > I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split t

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks to all who mentioned the ebuild.  It hadn't occurred to me that there would be one. I'll try setting it up when I get back to that machine tonight. ++ kevinOn 4/30/06, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51:> I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Work

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello Sean, yep it is indeed, seeing I am in root for now then I will make other accounts and so on. Thanks for your reply to my issue! Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Sean O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > Ok here is a issue someone else and I are h

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Justin Findlay
On 5/2/06, Leopold Gouverneur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Try 'equery depends gentoo-sources' to see which package(s) want gentoo-sources. Jusitn -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Christopher E wrote: Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display "ccda:///dev/hda". I had an issue before accessing my dvd drive. I fixed it by adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:13 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Thank you Michael! > > So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is > button also? > Yes. In any Linux docs you might read that refer to the "third mouse button", this is your mouse wheel. > Sincerely, > Christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:50 -0400, Christopher E wrote: > Hello all, > > I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work > inside of gnome? > > In my xorg I have auto as the protocal, and for the location to > /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to work

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 2 May 2006 17:42:26 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: > > > You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable > > $! > > > The child is not backgrounded! > > So something like: > > subprocess & > >

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Leopold Gouverneur
How can I prevent emerge from merging gentoo-sources (I now use sources from ftp.kernel.org).I tried --unmerge whithout success. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things, AC97 sound and Gnome issues!

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello there, my sound seems to work, but not that concesit. like I have skype ring some times and other times it does not, then with my mic it plays through the speakers Any ideas to why and who to get it stable? when I do a lspci I get this for my sound card: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controll

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello and thank you all for your respone my mouse is not working to my best of knowing :-) Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Chris. This one often stumps even seasoned X dorks like myself. In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, look for the 'Section "InputDevice"' stan

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 20:13 schrieb Christopher E: > Thank you Michael! > So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is > button also? yes :) The wheel are buttons 4 and 5 in that case. > Sincerely, > Christopher Hand, Michael > On 5/2/06, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Thank you Michael! So that would apply to a mouse with two buttons and the wheel that is button also? Sincerely, Christopher On 5/2/06, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Christopher, Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 19:50 schrieb Christopher E: > Hello all, > I am wondering what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
Hey Chris. This one often stumps even seasoned X dorks like myself. In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, look for the 'Section "InputDevice"' stanza which describes your mouse, and add the following: Option "ZAxisMApping" "4 5" This will get your mouse wheel up and running, but you'll need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread François Steinmetz
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap4_sect3 ;-) This is xorg configuration, it has nothing to do with gnome.On 5/2/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hello all,I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work inside of gnome?In my xorg I have auto as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Christopher, Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 19:50 schrieb Christopher E: > Hello all, > I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work > inside of gnome? > In my xorg I have auto as the protocal, and for the location to > /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse whee

[gentoo-user] Audio CD - DVD s Issues

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Ok here is a issue someone else and I are having with playing cds of audio / DVD: Error from duoble clicking on the icon on the desktop of audio cd or a dvd: Cound't display "ccda:///dev/hda". Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Jarry
Delca wrote: The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /var/spool/mail/${USER} | formail +1 -ds sendmail -oem ${USER} I don't know if it is w

[gentoo-user] Re: ip6tables, state matching

2006-05-02 Thread Edwin Kapauni
Graham Murray wrote: [...] > ip6tables can do that, but I think it needs version 1.3.5 which is in > ~arch and kernel >= 2.6.16 (with CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6=y/m) Thanks for the hint. I actually found it in the unstable branches iptables-1.3.5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher E
Hello all, I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work inside of gnome? In my xorg I have auto as the protocal, and for the location to /dev/input/mice what else do I nned for geting my mouse wheel to work inside of Gnome? Thanks for your help ahead of time! Sincerely, Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote on 05/02/06 19:27: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:16, Dave Jones wrote: >>>Someone knows how to solve this? >>cd /var/spool/mail >>mv oldname newname >>chown newname newname > What if the second account is not local? Copying the mail spool file into /var/spool/mail to the machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:16, Dave Jones wrote: > > Someone knows how to solve this? > > cd /var/spool/mail > mv oldname newname > chown newname newname What if the second account is not local? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Zac Slade wrote: You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! The child is not backgrounded! So something like: subprocess & $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. Based on the suggestions of U

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: >> I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it >> improves the speed of KDE applications too > > So, can you please tell me how to

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", it might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it has not broken a thing in my system. And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unle

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Zac Slade
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:48, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > I think (untested) you can do something like > > > > trap 'kill ' TERM > > > > at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it > > in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone use this HDD enclosure?

2006-05-02 Thread K Barter
On 5/1/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The subject says it all. Its a Vantec Netstar 3 eSATA & USB 2.0 Aluminum 3.5 Enclosure.I dont anticipate any issues as its "plug & play", but I want to make sure before I spend $59.95 CAD on it. Thanks! -- Cheers,Ian I am using the equivalent model

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Delca wrote on 05/02/06 17:52: > The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to > /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. > i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The alias only sends the new incoming mails. Not the ones already on

[gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Delca
The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The alias only sends the new incoming mails. Not the ones already on the file. Someone knows how to solve t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/01/06 23:14: >>I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having >>problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double >>quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. > KDE overrides Xorg configs. > Just open the KDE's Control Center, select Regi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-02 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
pkill has a -g option to send a signal to a process group. --- Vladimir On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:48 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > > > I think (untested) you can do something like > > > > trap 'kill ' TERM > > > > at then beginning of parent.sh. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
In case anyone's wondering: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page There, look at the link for the GNU/Linux backup script. That's what I use here at work, and I'm able to clone a p4 machine with full KDE in about 1 hour. Pay *very* close attention to the '--excludes' in the script, as

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread S. Schwartz
Alexander Kirillov wrote: > I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to > gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. > And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: > media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 > media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 > media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 > Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Jolet wrote: > > partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage > > system that can take > 2gb files > > I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, > can't you? > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Lov

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
For plain device cloning you can read: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm and http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html Using gzip definately saves a lot of space if your partitions aren't completely full. On 5/2/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Jole

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: >Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? > >Dale >:-) >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >Dale: > >Yes, let say that I install a machine with all my basic software and want >to set up a second machine without having to reinst

[gentoo-user] [OT] (Linux) surveillance system?

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
Hello all. In the pursuit of a light physical security solution, I was wondering - does anyone recommend a small-time nanny-cam or web cam monitoring system that can run atop Linux and accessed using a web browser? We're looking to beef up physical security to our server room, but we don't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: > partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system > that can take > 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, can't you? Alexander Skwar -- Love is not enough, but it sure helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
What about quickpkg'ing all the installed packages and emerging them as binaries on the new system? I think if you copy your /etc to the new box first it should work just fine. I wonder if anyone has tried this. Anyways, this really depends on how much you want to clone the system, and how simila

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Jerônimo Backes wrote: > >> Anyway i suggest you >> try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm >> using it, the sound quality is better than Skype.. Check out their >> website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in >> portage (net-im/wengophone).. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 May 2006 14:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: > Hello all: > > I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. > Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. I simply tar up the whole box (except what I do not want like log files and such). After booting the other bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread jan werner
Ronald Vincent Vazquez schrieb: Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread Conneries wearegeeks
> is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? > Yes, twinview doesn't work properly with the 8756 version. I had to fall back to the previous version. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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