* On Jun 16 16:07, Allan Gottlieb (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> What players would you recommend. My needs are modest, a few hours of
> MP3s would be enough.
I would personally recommend any of the players from Cowon
(cowonamerica.com). They all support USB Mass Storage, meaning Linux
* On Jun 5 3:20, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Thanks! - I'll see them.
> It is interesting, they are not present in the portage tree.
I find that odd myself, but at least they're very easy to install. Glad
I could help - I think you'll like those forums.
Tom
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* On Jun 5 1:51, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I have found Gentoo team uses phpBB forum app. OTOH, this app is
> masked in portage:
phpBB has had a lot of security problems, but the Gentoo folk use a
highly modified version that fixes security issues and adds some use
* On Jun 2 20:21, Mick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> What's the best way to find out what -meta packages exist
eix 'kde.*-meta'
> and what they contain?
The KDE website is pretty good for that - see here:
http://kde.org/whatiskde/project.php#distribution
Tom
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* On May 31 16:28, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended.
Just a quick note in addition to the good advice given in the rest of the
thread. One of the Gentoo devs (I forget which, but I'm sure someone
knows) keeps a bunch of tarbal
* On May 25 21:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I'm learning Gentoo as fast and as much as I can!
Cool! I hope you like it as much as the others here - it's a great
system for a lot of uses.
> I've fixed many problems by myself that you haven't heard about because
> I ma
* On May 27 11:40, Jason Weisberger (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I figure upgrading to GCC 4.1.1 from 3.4.5 wouldn't be such a pain,
> right? WRONG.
I wanted to give it a day or two of use before I commented, but I
recently upgraded to GCC 4.1.1 and rebuilt most of my system. I have
* On May 27 11:29, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> At this rate, I'm inclined to recommend Kuroo to all of you. I've
> been kicking the tires in on it, and it's really quite good.
I have a feeling that, given people who extensively discuss the merits of
esearch vs. eix, you'r
* On May 25 16:44, Daniel da Veiga (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> (correct me if I'm wrong, but you installed using the Gentoo Installer,
> didn't you? if you had a complete experience of Gentoo install, you
> would know that by now, that's why I strongly advice new users to AVOID
> THE
* On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive:
> /portage-20060123.tar.bz2
This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete
that file. Portage is already using uncompressed files under
/us
* On May 16 19:03, JimD (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup
> and use?
I'd recommend spamassassin.
I've tried all of the popular spam filters, including SA, dspam, and
bogofilter, including many of the "plugins" and smal
* On May 16 21:38, Alexander Skwar (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> - Tabs
> - Easy way to paste from clipboard (I'm not talking about primary
> selection)
You can use multi-aterm for tabs if you want, though personally I see no
need to. You have 10 instantly-accessible "tabs" with scree
* On May 9 19:33, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I
> thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your
> most/least favourite X terminals, and why?
I use aterm exclusively. It opens insta
* On Mar 21 12:43, Mauro Faccenda (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> If I use the synaptics driver, my touchpad stop working after starting
> a GTK app (tried vmware, grkellm2, firefox). It doesn't occours when
> I'm using a "mouse" driver for it. But I want to use some advantages in
> syna
* On Feb 17 16:16, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> net.eth0 isn't actually failing when ifplugd detects no cable. It is
> shown as inactive rather than stopped. You could try starting the
> interface from /etc/conf.d/local only if eth0 is not active with
>
> etc/init.d/net.et
* On Feb 17 9:46, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Note that the latest baselayout supports ifplugd itself. You only need
> to emerge ifplugd, you don't need to configure it or add it to a
> runlevel.
I'm having a similar problem, and I'm using ifplugd via baselayout.
(ne
* On Feb 16 14:03, Nick Smith (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> # /etc/init.d/spamd start
> * Starting spamd...
> [18773] error: persistent_udp: no such method at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line
> 99 [ ok ]
I h
* On Feb 6 21:11, Christoph Eckert (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> did anyone notice RR4 Linux on
>
> It's based on Gentoo and it has an hard drive installer; is it a cool
> thing to get a base Gentoo installed?
I've used RR4 for quite a while as a LiveCD for installing (and
troublesho
* On Feb 6 12:34, Steven S. (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You
> should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball yourself, you
> could then run the configure and install scripts, giving it the
> location of wher
* On Feb 3 13:41, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> A while back some posted a way to avoid doing:
> equery list|grep package to get info like version or whatever.
>
> It involved limiting what list returned by some method before it gets
> to grep.
You can do "equery list "
* On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up
> when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so
> far but haven't done any real installing just seeing where this
> goes and need some coach
* On Dec 18 10:14, Jeff (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Just to let you guys know, not that it means anything special, but WoW
> works like a DREAM on Gentoo.
I know this isn't a help with the mouse pointer fix, but did you do
anything special to get WoW to run? I tried every patch I fou
I installed liboil 0.3.3 this morning, from an emerge sync done around
8:30 am EST, with no troubles. (As for the other reply - I use ccache as
well, so that's not it.)
emerge info attached.
Tom
* On Oct 12 19:52, Holly Bostick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I've been trying to run an
* On Sep 21 16:44, Holly Bostick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> And you know, it just occurred to me-- isn't there a kernel option or
> an
> option somewhere that I can't remember right now, to enable or disable
> auto-rebooting on severe errors/kernel panics, something like that?
[~] gr
* On Sep 2 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> seems that nobody likes FVWM
Hey, I use FVWM and love it, have for a long time ;) FVWM is small,
ultimately customizable, and can do everything any other WM can do, with
a bit of work. Virtually any dreamable interface is possible with it.
This c
* On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of
> errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction,
> or they would not be able to read their own stuff.
Not sure I buy that. I've used
* On Aug 19 15:42, Sean Johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very
> reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke
> on.
Another strong recommendation for Plextor here. I've had my PX-712A for
a while
* On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Any ideas?
All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't
address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows
down your memory, and some people choose to keep it off for speed unl
* On Jun 19 15:32, Jean Magnan de Bornier (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> You might want to try qingy, if framebuffer works on this machine
> cheers,
Another vote for qingy. I've been using it for a long time now, it's
very light, stable, and configurable, with no deps other than directf
* On Jun 18 20:41, timothy johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> trying to play starcraft, got it installed but it installed it to
> Program Files, now I have to get the the exe in a term but I cant seem
> to cd to Program Files cause of the space. Any ideas on how to get
> around this???
* On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> 2. Convert the information to a graphic format and use that as
> background image. No browser is able to directly download background
> images (in the moment).
Not true - any Mozilla-based browser can do it rather easily. On
* On Jun 14 8:47, Paul Kain (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Also bear in mind he worked for MS prior to starting on gentoo ->
Not the same Daniel Robbins. They'll have rather different jobs, too :)
Tom
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* On Jun 13 16:42, Qian Qiao (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space,
> is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their
> dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest?
I'll assume you're clearin
* On May 24 13:37, Mitko Moshev (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Put -pipe in there too, it speeds up compiling (or so I've heard).
Right! I forgot -pipe, that one's good. Unless you have bad RAM that
you're trying to use as little as possible, or some such thing...
> Right now I use C
* On May 23 17:45, Walter Dnes (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Currently, I use "-march=i686" for my 3 machines, a P4, a PIII, and a
> PII (and a partridge in a pear tr).
>
> "i586 is equivalent to pentium and i686 is equivalent to pentiumpro."
>
> Does this mean that I would
* On May 13 20:30, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> emerging kde, gnome and fluxbox instead of fvwm would oonly make the
> world file two lines longer :)
If you only install the meta-ebuilds, that's true... Perhaps I should
have prefaced it with a 'YMMV', but if you have thr
* On May 13 9:06, Mark Knecht (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How
> long it yours?
My world file is 135 lines, and I run a fairly minimalist desktop system
(no DE, just good ole fvwm). For a system with kde, gnome, and flux
* On Apr 29 23:41, Pavel (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Why you have POSIX locale ?
> Did you edit /etc/env.d/02locale ?
> You should add
>
> LC_ALL=""
> LANG=your locale.UTF-8
Honestly I've never understood locales terribly well, but POSIX must be
the default because the output of my `
* On Apr 29 15:21, Jose Moreira (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> i think my sistem is a little messed up, because of locales:
Is your /etc/locales.build file correct? If you don't have all the
languages you want specified there, you'll be lacking some important
ones... (if some are miss
* On Apr 29 13:06, Jose Moreira (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> Is this normal?
It's normal for an emerge -e system, yes, but you don't need to do that
for simply recompiling glibc.
Tom
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* On Apr 25 22:17, Devraj Mukherjee (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
> 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks
> for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this
> with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to
> ha
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