Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:35:46 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: > I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to > use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue > windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any > suggestions?

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:39:52 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I am probably in that very situation. My world file is 5794 lines > long. I didn't know about -1 and frankly don't understand it. If I > remerge a package which is not in world, why is it added to world? I > had seen a few vague ref

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread felix
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:27:08PM -0500, Dale wrote: > And from experience, I can tell you it happens when you don't use that > -1 option when you should. You can end up with a HUGE world file when > not using that opton to just rebuild something for some reason or other. I am probably in that v

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread kyle . bader
Sorry for top posting my bb is dumb about that. The answer to your question is yes, you can uses your current pots lines. You want your outside line to be fxo and lines connecting to your standard phones to be fxs. The digium wildcard supports 4 pots and you can buy them with a different mix

[gentoo-user] GUI for touchscreen PC?

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
I have 800x480 resolution, but with the touchscreen the pointer is clumsy to use. I need something that has large buttons, and will re-size dialogue windows so that the buttons at the bottom still fit on the window. Any suggestions?

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:52:28 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > >> I'm not sure what pulled in those newer versions previously. >> > > You had both poppler and poppler-bindings in world. What you saw was one > of the effects of a world file polluted by packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:52:28 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I'm not sure what pulled in those newer versions previously. You had both poppler and poppler-bindings in world. What you saw was one of the effects of a world file polluted by packages that should only ever be installed as dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. > > I've been using namecheap for years (they are a reseller for eNom). > It's cheap and you get what you're looking for. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. I've been using namecheap for years (they are a reseller for eNom). It's cheap and you get what you're looking for. I've got a few domains, and been able to set them up for DKIM, Goog

[gentoo-user] Re: Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread James
Chuck Robey telenix.org> writes: > > I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. > I do precisely this, using GoDaddy. I don't see why using a service like that > wouldn't be possible to get into what you want. You'd have to make sure, when > you set it up, that you didn't ask GoDa

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. > > But first a few key points. > > 1. "I" own the domain name exclusively. This means if I want to > change (move) registrars, it's not an issue, except for expenses.

Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal

2009-04-25 Thread Dale
Saphirus Sage wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> >> >>> I've had this happen a few times now in the new Xorg. >>> >>> All of a sudden I'm typing in all caps, but my caps lock is off. I put it on >>> and I'm not in all caps anymore in a particular app (xterm or vim), b

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: >> You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS. If I got this wrong, >> just >> delete it. FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk >> battery and (as needed) ringing current. FXO is meant to interface to

[gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. But first a few key points. 1. "I" own the domain name exclusively. This means if I want to change (move) registrars, it's not an issue, except for expenses. 2. No bundled packages for space of any kind needed or wanted. (I'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal

2009-04-25 Thread Saphirus Sage
Dale wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >> I've had this happen a few times now in the new Xorg. >> >> All of a sudden I'm typing in all caps, but my caps lock is off. I put it on >> and I'm not in all caps anymore in a particular app (xterm or vim), but now >> I'm in caps in another window...

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Incidentally, poppler has a long and fine history of insanely breaking users' > configs every time its developers sneeze. The number of times I've had > poppler > show up in revdep-rebuild output defies any kind of sane, logical, rational > description. Not even Microso

Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal

2009-04-25 Thread Dale
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I've had this happen a few times now in the new Xorg. > > All of a sudden I'm typing in all caps, but my caps lock is off. I put it on > and I'm not in all caps anymore in a particular app (xterm or vim), but now > I'm in caps in another window... > > If I go to a virtua

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Remy Blank
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION > /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 > .5.ebuild > DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg" > > Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so > I looked in the emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:14:23 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On 26/04/09 Mike Kazantsev said: > > > And note that >=sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically > > - without user (your) intervention. > > sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 > > Will that go stable soon? I've yet to see any b

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:52:28 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > > app-text/poppler-bindings and app-text/poppler aren't needed by anything > > right now. > > So, I just unmerged them and now my upgrade path looks good. > > I'm not sure what pulled in those newe

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:59:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck > is that"? > > So I look at the ebuild file... > > msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION > /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 > .5.ebuild > DESCRIPTION="

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Michael P. Soulier (msoul...@digitaltorque.ca) [25.04.09 20:59]: > So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :) > No, eix is: emerge eix man eix > Mike HTH Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _ ASCII ribbon campaign

[gentoo-user] capslock reversal

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I've had this happen a few times now in the new Xorg. All of a sudden I'm typing in all caps, but my caps lock is off. I put it on and I'm not in all caps anymore in a particular app (xterm or vim), but now I'm in caps in another window... If I go to a virtual terminal and back it seems to fix it

[gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck is that"? So I look at the ebuild file... msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 .5.ebuild DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg" Great, that helps. Sti

[gentoo-user] voice or touch data entry apps

2009-04-25 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for special types of applications that allow for data entry, via voice commands or using the touch screen on a touch screen enabled laptop. KDE4 is my preferred desktop, but any application that will run on kde4 and gentoo is of interest. Is there anything like this out ther

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > app-text/poppler-bindings and app-text/poppler aren't needed by anything right > now. So, I just unmerged them and now my upgrade path looks good. I'm not sure what pulled in those newer versions previously. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fo

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > So, luatex and xpdf require poppler 0.10.4, but app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1 is > already installed. I guess xpdf and luatex can't handle the newer poppler > version for some reason? It's actually trying to downgrade poppler and > poppler-bindings for some reas

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Justin said: > It tells you what todo: > > emerge app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 > > with USE="gtk cairo" > > check that if it solves the problem Ok, I rebuilt app-text/poppler-bindings with USE="gtk cairo", and I removed app-text/poppler-bindings from world. Now I get this msoul.

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:17:52 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 25/04/09 Neil Bothwick said: > > And remove poppler-bindings from world. > > Ok, and will prevent it from being considered during my next world update, > as I understand it. Can you explain why that's a good thing? No, it just takes

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Neil Bothwick said: > And remove poppler-bindings from world. Ok, and will prevent it from being considered during my next world update, as I understand it. Can you explain why that's a good thing? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Justin said: > It tells you what todo: > > emerge app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 > > with USE="gtk cairo" > > check that if it solves the problem msoul...@anton:~$ USE="gtk cairo" sudo emerge --pretend app-text/poppler-bindings These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-25 Thread Simon
> You seem to want to know the difference, FXO vs FXS.  If I got this wrong, > just > delete it.  FXS is meant to interface to a telephone set, so it gives talk > battery and (as needed) ringing current.  FXO is meant to interface to a line > from a telco switch, so it accepts battery (if the circ

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/04/09 Mike Kazantsev said: > And note that >=sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically > - without user (your) intervention. sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 Will that go stable soon? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:48:51 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > And remove poppler-bindings from world. And note that >=sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically - without user (your) intervention. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 April 2009 19:25:26 Grant wrote: > >> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and > >> now I get: > >> > >> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not > >> generated > >> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:01:59 -0700 Grant wrote: > X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I > get: > > Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > Xl

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-25 Thread Grant
>> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now >> I get: >> >> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not >> generated >> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. >> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:32:30 +0200, Justin wrote: > > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1', 'merge') > > pulled in by app-text/poppler-bindings required by world > > > > Explanation: > > > > New USE for 'app-text/poppler-bindings:0' are incorrectly set. In > > order

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Justin
Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm trying to understand the explanation of this but I don't quite see it. It looks like conflicting libraries used by gimp, inkscape and openoffice. I don't quite understand the explanation, and what my options are. Translation appreciated. Thanks, Mike msoul...@

[gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I'm trying to understand the explanation of this but I don't quite see it. It looks like conflicting libraries used by gimp, inkscape and openoffice. I don't quite understand the explanation, and what my options are. Translation appreciated. Thanks, Mike msoul...@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --u