Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread David Grant
Try geda On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working > on to an electronics group. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread David Grant
On 4/16/07, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/4/16, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with > the drive although it might be. I have seen "hard resetting port" messages >

[gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread David Grant
ice sda: drive cache: write back -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] newer alsa-lib and .asoundrc

2006-10-23 Thread David Grant
On 10/19/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/19/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> In the elog or ewarn message for alsa-lib there is now a warning about> having an old .asoundrc file laying around. Does this mean that we don't > even need .asoun

[gentoo-user] newer alsa-lib and .asoundrc

2006-10-19 Thread David Grant
refox seems to be working and can even play flash videos while amarok and mpg321 are also playing at the same time.-- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-17 Thread David Grant
ted VCS like git to be able to push changes to a group of machines for e.g. updates, but then again, I don't have enough installations to maintain. Has anybody done something in this direction? Great idea to use SVN. RCS on it's own is a pain to deal with. -- David Grant http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] partition scheme

2006-10-17 Thread David Grant
n /dev/fd0 - unrecognised disk label. (parted) quit Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date Tue Oct 17 07:37:56 IST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread David Grant
On 10/1/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:08, Terry Eck wrote:> I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0.> I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting> from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this li

[gentoo-user] Looking for a non-ndiswrapper USB NIC

2006-09-27 Thread David Grant
Can anyone recommend a good non-ndiswrapper USB wireless 802.11g NIC?Thanks,-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV 0.20 ebuild

2006-09-27 Thread David Grant
On 9/27/06, Bryce Verdier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had it up for a couple of days. Nothing seriously wrong yet.Although, watching live TV on my box is a little choppier now... forsome reason. The "chmod +s mythfrontend" did help, but its still not fluid on the live tv playback (i have pvr-25

[gentoo-user] MythTV 0.20 ebuild

2006-09-25 Thread David Grant
So the MythTV ebuild is no longer masked and is now ~x86. Has anyone tried it? I'm very interesting in hearing the initial reports. Since I have a tried and true system that is working perfectly I don't want to upgrade just yet. Hopefully some of you are adventurous enough or are making a new syste

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.12.5 sucks

2006-09-25 Thread David Grant
ocounted. #  This should be useful to people that do not care about anyspecific#  interface being up at boot.#  yes   - For this ALL network interfaces MUST be up for the 'net'service to#  be considered up. RegardsSebastian Noack--gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list-- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the preferred gentoo way to list all packages w/ multiple versions installed?

2006-09-19 Thread David Grant
On 9/18/06, Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I have an older gentoo systen which accumulated some cruft over the time- I have to clean it up :-)I want to list all installed SLOTTED packages where more than oneversion is installed. The old (deprecated) qpkg had the option "--dups". Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Boring new startup look with baselayout 1.12

2006-09-15 Thread David Grant
On 9/15/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:07:21 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:> Thanks, yes, that did "fix" it. However it's strange b/c I have had> PARALLEL on for years ever since I first learned of it. Only with this > new baselayout did the loading change to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update to glibc-2.4-r3 with gcc-3.4.6

2006-09-15 Thread David Grant
On 9/15/06, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Grant wrote:> I did and I totally screwed up my system. I managed to fix it eventually> by booting to a live CD and untaring the quickpkg I made into the /> directory.Yes, I saw your posts on bug 125868 [1]. > ... and seco

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to glibc-2.4-r3 with gcc-3.4.6

2006-09-15 Thread David Grant
I did and I totally screwed up my system. I managed to fix it eventually by booting to a live CD and untaring the quickpkg I made into the / directory.I might have done something wrong to cause this but I'm not sure what it was. Anyways, make sure you do quickpkg before hand, and secondly, don't do

Re: [gentoo-user] annoying delivery status notifications

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:35 -0700, David Grant wrote:>>> On 9/14/06, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>     quoth the David Grant: > > Is anyone else getting:> >> > T

Re: [gentoo-user] annoying delivery status notifications

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: quoth the David Grant:> Is anyone else getting:>> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.>> Delivery to the following recipients failed.>>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> every time they send a

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hmm, it turns out that setting MAILTO=root in my own user's crontab makes it send mail. MAILTO=root is already in /etc/cron/crontab by the way so this is all very strange. I tried setting MAILTO=david and that didn't work. I dec

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/14/06, Neil Bothwick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:30 -0700, David Grant wrote:> Cron is sending out an email for jobs run as user root, but not for cron> jobs run as my normal user? Yet the funny t

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:30 -0700, David Grant wrote:> Cron is sending out an email for jobs run as user root, but not for cron> jobs run as my normal user? Yet the funny thing is, when cron runs jobs > as normal user, it still

Re: [gentoo-user] Setup questions for dedicated "media center" box.

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
stopper comes along. Using mplayer to watch TV? Why not use mythtv?  Is SVGA any faster than X?I have no idea but I'm pretty sure that's like asking if apples are better than oranges. :-) Since this'll be a single-purpose dedicated box, connecting to the netonly for updates, I have no problem running it as root full-time.Bad idea.-- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile failure: libdv-102

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
The place you want to check is http://bugs.gentoo.orgOn 9/12/06, Meino Christian Cramer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi, there are a few package, which do not compile after I did the step to gcc-4.1.1. The third of those packages is: libdv-0.102 With -j3 set the output is: if /bin/sh ../libtool --si

Re: [gentoo-user] OT developing C code using Elcipse

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
On 9/14/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,We have several assembler/C programmers who currently use windows to developembedded software for microprocessors. I'd like to migrate those folksto using Eclipse (or whatever) on Gentoo. Why? It'd be really wonderful if there was a BOOK showing C

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome logout dialog in Ubuntu has way more options - how to get suspend?

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
First things first, what version of Gnome is your Ubuntu screenshot from, and which version of Gnome in Gentoo are you using?DavidOn 9/14/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!When I logout of Gnome in Ubuntu (to start Gentoo *G*), I get thefollowing dialog: http://www.myimg.de/?img=gn

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp

2006-09-14 Thread David Grant
Cron is sending out an email for jobs run as user root, but not for cron jobs run as my normal user? Yet the funny thing is, when cron runs jobs as normal user, it still actually sends the mail to root (see /etc/crontab). And on the command line, I see the same thing either way: Sep 14 14:43:01 son

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly

2006-09-13 Thread David Grant
On 9/13/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/13/06, Richard Fish < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> to compile the rest...? In short: If you want help you really should provide > more info about what you have d

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly

2006-09-13 Thread David Grant
On 9/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> to compile the rest...? In short: If you want help you really should provide> more info about what you have done and where you didn't know what to do...! In addition to what Bo said, you h

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly

2006-09-13 Thread David Grant
On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, what have you actually done with this? I mean it tells you to recompileall of the following:# emerge -va1  \=sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1   \=dev-libs/libpqxx- 2.5.1   

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly

2006-09-13 Thread David Grant
revdep-rebuild keeps wanting to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 over and over again. Is anyone else seeing this?-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting ELOG to sent to an smtp server with ssl

2006-09-12 Thread David Grant
On 9/1/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 00:31, David Grant wrote:> Anyone know how to get elog to send mail to an smtp server with ssl on port> 465? I know it does starttls if you use 100465 as the port, but this server > at work jus

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread David Grant
On 9/7/06, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All responses off list please.  Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-)-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

[gentoo-user] xmame with 2 joysticks

2006-09-07 Thread David Grant
Anyone know how to get xmame to recognize two joysticks at /dev/input/js0 and /dev/input/js1?-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] installing mono

2006-09-06 Thread David Grant
By the way, hugin does not depend on mono, autopano-sift depends on mono. If hugin depends on autopano-sift or hugin, then that is a bug. Looks like it does depend on autopano-sift, but it probably shouldn't as it is not required. DaveOn 9/5/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
On 9/1/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Grant gmail.com> writes: > > If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have > > to reinstall. Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of make.profile to point to

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
I noticed that my /var/lib/portage/config file is not getting populated with new entries anymore, although it did get created by some program. Very strange... David On 9/1/06, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Grant wrote: > But what is config all about? On my other machine it l

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
efully everything will be cool and I will be able to reboot into this machine (I couldn't even boot into it after this b0rking happend). Dave On 9/1/06, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's what I did: I have sticking with gcc-3.x for now... I wanted to upgraded glibc to 2

[gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config

2006-09-01 Thread David Grant
e are probably only about 10 packages anyways because this is a mythtv box. But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do a diff? -- David

Re: [gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-08-31 Thread David Grant
deleting /usr/local/sbin/enoticedeleting /usr/local/share/man/man1/enotice.1deleting /etc/portage/profiledeleting /var/tmp/portage/enoticeremoving ENOTICE_LOGDIR from /etc/make.confI may have gotten some of those directories wrong...but that's what I mean by removing enotice. DaveOn 8/31/06, Nico <

Re: [gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-08-31 Thread David Grant
On 8/31/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:08:20 -0700"David Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> If I re-emerge hotplug, for example, I get a big fat warning about > hotplug's init.d script being dead and buried. When I look at my elo

Re: [gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-08-31 Thread David Grant
On 8/31/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:08:20 -0700"David Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> If I re-emerge hotplug, for example, I get a big fat warning about > hotplug's init.d script being dead and buried. When I look at my elo

[gentoo-user] ELOG doesn't seem to be logging much

2006-08-31 Thread David Grant
If I re-emerge hotplug, for example, I get a big fat warning about hotplug's init.d script being dead and buried. When I look at my elog directory I don't see anything there, nor do I get an email about it. Am I doing something wrong? I get some ELOG messages but nothing very important. I also have