Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A friend of mine does this for his production servers: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(ne

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Walker
Josh Helmer wrote: I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP se

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-05-16 Thread Will Briggs
Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > Could not configure driver to use managed mode > > ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > WEX

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 04:30:37 James wrote: > It seems to work, but no spell checking? From the openoffice ebuilds: | pkg_postinst() { | [...] | elog " Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, " | elog " if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell packa

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-16 Thread Eray Aslan
On 17.05.2007 06:52, Josh Helmer wrote: > I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. > > Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing > that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some > security issues. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: > James wrote: > > It seems to work, but no spell checking? > > I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell > checking in OpenOffice. At least, I seem to remember that being the > case... > > R This may have changed, everything else does, but I THINK I rea

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > It seems to work, but no spell checking? I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell checking in OpenOffice. At least, I seem to remember that being the case... R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.

[gentoo-user] IMAP server recommendations.

2007-05-16 Thread Josh Helmer
Hey gang... I was just looking for some opinions. I am replacing my current mail server. Right now I am using courier-imap and I am happy with it. The only thing that concerns me is that I have heard grumblings that courier has some security issues. I was just curious which IMAP server ot

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-05-16 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > Could not configure driver to use managed mode > > ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Resource temporarily unavailable > > WEXT auth param 7 valu

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Rob Rutherford
On 5/16/07, Rob Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/16/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. > both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled > version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about > 14

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Rob Rutherford
The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the document. Format->Character->Font Make sure the language is set correctly you probably want English (USA) . On 5/16/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not

[gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread James
Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about 14 times to the console: (process:7216): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (scree

[gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of circular dependencies

2007-05-16 Thread burlingk
My only input at this time (since I am a total newb when it comes to Gentoo), is this. I had an issue with circular dependencies, but it was because I did not understand the intricacies of use flags at the time. Now that I understand better, the only problem I seem to run into is trying to get

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

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:40:20 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I think the important point about this was that it was such a trivial > > hiccup to fix - USE="-directfb" emerge -1 libsdl - then continue with > > the previous emerge. > Neil, I know you know more about this than I do but I always do a emerge >

[gentoo-user] gnome cvs binding

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
I think I've asked this before, and I usually get another recommendation for another cvs gui (I use tkcvs). But what I want is a gnome cvs binding, or add-on, or whatever, that gives you tortoise-cvs like capabilities from within nautilus windows. ie. icons have an overlay depending on whether the

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:49:18 David Harel wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > >> Nop, Attached the output of: # equery files openssl > opensslList > > > > Is it reproducible? If it is what's the output of `eix -e openssl` (if > > you don't have eix emerge it) ? > > On my machine it is reproduc

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

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:51 -0700, kashani wrote: > Is it the end of another semester already[1][2]? Are we already due to > be subjected to the highly dubious ideas of Mr. Weigelt sporadically > over summer break? > > kashani > > 1. search for Enrico Weigelt on gmane and sort by date in the G

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

2007-05-16 Thread kashani
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did get a circular dependency today, sdl and directfb and guess what? The error message also contained the solution, which was to temporarily change a USE flag. *rofl* what a good solution. really clean. gread idea. Is it t

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

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > You mean I shouldn't have copied over a make.conf from another machine > without checking? ;-) > > I think the important point about this was that it was such a trivial > hiccup to fix - USE="-directfb" emerge -1 libsdl - then continue with the > previous emerge. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of > >> dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. > >> > >> There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos > >> with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a char

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

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:47:37 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to recall > > the last time I was hit with one. > > At least several. I didn't find an good solution for checking > the whole tree yet, so I yet know some. Good candidates

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

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:51:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Circular dependencies are mostly a problem for new users since as soon > as the dependencies are installed the circular dependencies are > satisfied and hence irrelevant. I know, it was in a new install that I got hit. > The real pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: >> USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of >> dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. >> >> There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos >> with /dev/nvram, isn't ther

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

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: > > ? > > I haven't seen one... in years... > > > > I think maybe you should look your gentoo over again... you've done something > really STUPID. > > > > > I haven't had one in a long while either. I have ran into blocked packages or something minor like that but that

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread David Harel
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Nop, Attached the output of: # equery files openssl > opensslList Is it reproducible? If it is what's the output of `eix -e openssl` (if you don't have eix emerge it) ? On my machine it is reproducible. I opened a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?i

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

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:23:13 am Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I also want to say "Thank you" to the gentoo devs. > > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. > ? I haven't seen one... in years... > Cirular de

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Cool. I'm a Linux only person here so this is something that I am >> curious about. That wouldn't happen to have been a Abit mobo would it? >> > > No, sorry. It was an Asus - which is mostly what I buy. However, the > one arriving tomorrow is an Abit so I mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze

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

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:54:13 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The great thing about free software is that it all comes with a full > money back guarantee. So before you start shooting your mouth off when > something produced by volunteers in their own time fails to work for > you,

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update > >> the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not > >> have a flopp

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT) "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, Will you are a bit wrong. Restarting the ipw3945d service > yields the same results. Here's what happens when I restart the > ipw3945 service: > ... > > ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Resource temporarily unavaila

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi Remy .. I was installed the 8.36.5 ati drivers, I downloaded of ati page and work fine. :D Regards.. On 5/16/07, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remy Blank wrote: > Just for posterity: I have updated to xorg-7.2 and everything works > perfectly well. Ok, maybe I was a bit too quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Walker
Dale wrote: Cool. I'm a Linux only person here so this is something that I am curious about. That wouldn't happen to have been a Abit mobo would it? No, sorry. It was an Asus - which is mostly what I buy. However, the one arriving tomorrow is an Abit so I might know a bit more about them

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Remy Blank
Remy Blank wrote: > Just for posterity: I have updated to xorg-7.2 and everything works > perfectly well. Ok, maybe I was a bit too quick on that one. I had to reboot today, and suddenly DRI stopped working. I had to unmask and emerge ati-drivers-8.35.5 to get it back. Pretty minimal maintenance,

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? >> >> Curious. >> > > In many cases, yes. I updated one just last week using a CD. That BIOS > had an update utilty built in to which you could boot. It looks first > for a floppy then, if not found, a CD. :) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Johnson
Actually, Will you are a bit wrong. Restarting the ipw3945d service yields the same results. Here's what happens when I restart the ipw3945 service: # /etc/init.d/ipw3945d restart * Stopping eth1 * Bringing down eth1 * Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 ... [ o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real time video streaming

2007-05-16 Thread YoYo Siska
Javier Krausbeck wrote: >> To elaborate: > >> mkfifo queue >> mkfifo vo1 >> mkfifo vo2 >> mkfifo vo3 >> mplayer lots_of_options_and_write_output_to queue & >> tee vo1 < queue | tee vo2 > vo3 & > >> or similar. > > I'm sorry to say that it just doesn't work. > There's no way of getting two reads

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

2007-05-16 Thread Rob Rutherford
On 5/16/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which problem from the upstream ? I'm a little bit involved in Xorg development (especially on the modularizing project), so if you tell me the problem, I could fix it. The problem w/ x11-base/xorg-server are the PDEPENDs on (external) drive

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

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 17:47:37 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > > > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. > > > > Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to recall > > the last time I was hit with one. >

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

2007-05-16 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi Enrico, I also want to say "Thank you" to the gentoo devs. Yes, thanks for a very very great job... I was installed gentoo a few months ago and I don't want anything else... Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. a

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

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:54:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:23:13 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. > > Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would[n't] have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real time video streaming (was: Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of))

2007-05-16 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, Use vloopback. I never tried to split one input to several, but who knows ? REgards, IStván -- IT szolgáltatások, alkalmazásszolgáltatás http://www.osbusiness.hu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-05-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:23:13 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. > > Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to reca

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Walker
Dale wrote: Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? Curious. In many cases, yes. I updated one just last week using a CD. That BIOS had an update utilty built in to which you could boot. It looks first for a floppy then, if not found, a CD. :) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Devon Miller wrote: > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded > disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no > compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. If OpenGL acceleration is a must, yo

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

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:23:13 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to recall the last time I was hit with one. > Great, great th

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the >> BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a >> floppy either. >> > > My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the > BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a > floppy either. My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick. -- Neil Bothwick Portable: Survives sy

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

2007-05-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I also want to say "Thank you" to the gentoo devs. Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. Cirular deps have been really sucking in SuSE and were one of the major for dropping it to me. Great, great thanks to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: > Karl Haines wrote: >> Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a >> good thing. > > I keep all the BIOSs im my machines uptodate (8 at the moment, > building another tomorrow). ;) > >> Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you >> can (wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real time video streaming (was: Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of))

2007-05-16 Thread Javier Krausbeck
On Monday 14 May 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > simultaneously splitted videos (sort of))': > > >> mkfifo f1 > > >> mkfifo f2 > > >> mkfifo f3 > > >> mplayer whatever_options_you_want_and_make_it_write_to_stdout | tee > > >> f1 > > >> | tee f2 >f3 > > > Just one caveat, mplayer does no

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:41:45 David Harel wrote: > > A tip, read the elog printouts or have them mailed to you > > (see /etc/make.conf.example). > > Thanks. I wish there was a short list of documents for basic maintenance. It is mentioned in part 2, chapter 2 in the handbook. Unfortunately som

Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Walker
Karl Haines wrote: Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a good thing. I keep all the BIOSs im my machines uptodate (8 at the moment, building another tomorrow). ;) Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within w

[gentoo-user] Firefox, fonts and stylesheets

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I have a stylesheet that covers the and/or tags, I have some trouble with the font-family attribute. If I specify it at all, I get a sans-serif proportional font, even if I specify "monospace". This only happens to the Firefox on Linux. IE and Firefox on Windoze look right. I've tried f

Re: [gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote >> >> >>> On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my consternati

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 May 2007 08:12:35 -0400 "Devon Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded disk. > It mostly works, but the VIA graphics c

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Remy Blank
Francisco Rivas wrote: > 2.- Remy have you some problem with your configuration or it's only to know? My original question was meant to get feedback *before* doing the update. I updated yesterday, and everything works well. So there's no question anymore. -- Remy signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

2007-05-16 Thread Francisco Rivas
Good for all list, have a nice day... 1.- Johannes I remember, you tried with xorgcfg or xorgconfig?... I don't remember if you test with Xorg -configure, if you don't then try.. jejejeje... excuse me.. but I can't sleep without solve that problem :D (it's a joke), but really after you try with t

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread David Harel
Naga wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 13:17, David Harel wrote: Thank you so much, your advice cured my machine. Hadn't noticed revdep-rebuild before. A tip, read the elog printouts or have them mailed to you (see /etc/make.conf.example). Thanks. I wish there was a short list of

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:12 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of a bootable CD intended for testing laptop (or > desktop) functionality? > > I'm hoping someone out there has built something on top of Knoppix or > Gentoo's LiveCD that will examine the hardware and report what's good >

RE: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Wayne Oliver
> -Original Message- > From: Devon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 May 2007 02:13 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring > > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently

[gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Devon Miller
I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. I'm looking to upgrade and while I'm aware of the vendors specia

Re: [gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-16 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem w

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Naga
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 13:17, David Harel wrote: > Thank you so much, your advice cured my machine. Hadn't noticed > revdep-rebuild before. A tip, read the elog printouts or have them mailed to you (see /etc/make.conf.example). > 2. most of the files were installed in /usr/local/ssl Did you i

[gentoo-user] Re: fbsplash won't!

2007-05-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 May 2007 18:15, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Just noticed that fbsplash is not shown on my VCs. dmesg shows that it > starts: > > fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'emergence' > fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0 > fbsplas

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread David Harel
Thank you so much, your advice cured my machine. Hadn't noticed revdep-rebuild before. It still gave me errors regarding some packages to be re-emerged but they don't seem to do with my original problem. Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:02:18 +0300, David Harel wrote: I scr

Re: [gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem.

2007-05-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. > > Was this working before then - e.

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:02:18 +0300, David Harel wrote: > I screwed up my openssl installation. How? some details may be useful. > Since then, I have to keep links in /usr/lib that will link > libssl.so.0.9.8 -> libssl.so.0.9.7 and similar for libcrypto. It sound like you may need to run revdep-

[gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread David Harel
Hi all, I screwed up my openssl installation. Since then, I have to keep links in /usr/lib that will link libssl.so.0.9.8 -> libssl.so.0.9.7 and similar for libcrypto. upgrades/downgrades/leftgrades and even rightgrades didn't work. Currently when I try to install anything that might use openssl

Re: [gentoo-user] How to be a developer o manteiner?

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:57:59 -0400 "Francisco Rivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all my list's friends... > > I have a question : How to be a developer or manteiner? what is the > process?... > > thanks to all in advance :D > Perhaps you should consult the official guide: http://www.gento

Re: [gentoo-user] How to be a developer o manteiner?

2007-05-16 Thread Jose Maria Alonso
> Hi all my list's friends... > > I have a question : How to be a developer or manteiner? what is the > process?... > > thanks to all in advance :D > I think this is a good start link. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ Cheers! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] php+ctype_data

2007-05-16 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
did not help Johannes Skov Frandsen a écrit : > Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: >> hi, >> looks like ctype_data does not work with php5 ? is there a special use >> flag ? or something else ? >> Best Regards >> Steph >> > Yes! > > just add: > > dev-lang/php ctype > > to: > > /etc/portage/package.use