Re: [gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-13 Thread Norman Rieß
>> The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date >> gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. > > Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Perhaps we don´t need it, but we like to use it. The OP said he wanted to use the script. If he wants to use that, it´s his decision, i

Re: [gentoo-user] gamin

2006-06-13 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:51:51 +0200 Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > If you look at the ebuild > ('less /usr/portage/app-admin/gamin/gamin-0.1.7.ebuild'), you'll > see that gamin provides the virtual fam. Yep, I visited its web! > $ equery depends fam > [ Searching for pa

[gentoo-user] eix-sync doesn't show differences anymore

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Some time ago, "eix-sync -v" used to show what's been changed between the just run "emerge --sync" and the old database. That's no longer done. After eix-sync is finished, I just see: >>> Updating Portage cache: 100% * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --h

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:12:48 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I first guess is to unmerge everything KDE, but even then, I'm not quite > sure Not everything KDE, leave arts and any other dependencies > what I should emerge in its place. kde-meta? And what will my system > be capable of in the mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl-alt-f(123456) dono worky so good

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:58:53 +, Mick wrote: > I think that > screen is most users favourite tool? There are two types of users, those that have never tried screen and those that could not imagine life without it. I spent far too long in the first group :) -- Neil Bothwick Every time I jum

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync doesn't show differences anymore

2006-06-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > Some time ago, "eix-sync -v" used to show what's been changed between > the just run "emerge --sync" and the old database. > > That's no longer done. After eix-sync is finished, I just see: > Updating Portage cache: 100% > * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync doesn't show differences anymore

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rumen Yotov wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Any idea what's wrong? Disable 'cdb' caching module, look above "(cache: cdb)". Ah. Okay, this helped - thanks! PS: also check einfo/elog message from portage-2.1 I (wrongly) assumed, that this message had no importance to eix. Thanks again,

[gentoo-user] ESD/esound "hangs" after a short time

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hallo. When I use an application which uses esound/esd to "make noise", the output stops after a short period of time (~40 seconds) and esd then consumes about 100% CPU. I'm using a "lousy" 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev

[gentoo-user] Google Earth/Picasa

2006-06-13 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi there, Does exist any way of installing Google Earth/Picasa into amd64 ? Thanx. -- "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" - Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get elog to use sendmail instead of smtp?

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Peter Ruskin wrote: I'm sure this has been asked before but I didn't find it in the archives. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails Alexander Skwar -- Sex is like air. It's only a big deal if you can't get any. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth/Picasa

2006-06-13 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hi there, > > Does exist any way of installing Google Earth/Picasa into amd64 ? > > Thanx. > > > -- > "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" - > Linus Torvalds The current ebuild was just keyworded ~amd6

[gentoo-user] vlc: Alsa sound is "jerky"

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. When I use vlc to play music (like a MP3 file), the sound output (set to alsa) is rather "jerky". Ie. it stops for a fraction of a second every 4 or 5 seconds. When I play the same file with xmms, all is fine. But I'd like to use vlc, as it plays audio streams like mms://a623.l672223087

Re: [gentoo-user] Peer review of ntp.conf file

2006-06-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Teresa and Dale wrote: > > >That's the whole thing. There is a command that I used that picked out > >the three servers that has the fastest ping times but I can't remember > >what it is. It's in the ofrums somewhere but I can't find it. > > >Dale > > >:-) :-) > > > % eix -

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the > following 2 commands: > > #/etc/init.d/ntpd stop > #ntpd -n > > 12 Jun 14:16:02 ntpd[8885]: ntpd exiting on si

[gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Hello! I installed a new Gentoo system, but I find big problems with ati drivers and 3D acceleration. I have followed the wiki howto but now I receive this error message #fglrxinfo Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa proj

[gentoo-user] MPlayer-1.0_pre8

2006-06-13 Thread Pavel Kouřil
Can you merge mplayer-1.0_pre8? I can't and portage says that will be downgrade x( -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Ptitjack
Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > Hello! > > I installed a new Gentoo system, but I find big problems with ati drivers and > 3D acceleration. I have followed the wiki howto but now I receive this error > message > > #fglrxinfo > Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". > displa

[gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

2006-06-13 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new gentoo box. Primary use will be kids doing schoolwork: some internet browsing, email, im, school reports and running tux-racer at a decent speed. In other words, nothing demanding that I spend premium $ for performance. I woul

Re: [gentoo-user] MPlayer-1.0_pre8

2006-06-13 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:48, Pavel Kouřil wrote: > Can you merge mplayer-1.0_pre8? I can't and portage says that will be > downgrade x( You'll have to mask all the mplayer-1.0.2006* packages as they are considered to be higher version numbers by portage. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new gentoo box. Do you have a "bigger" machine around on the same LAN, on which you could do the building of packages? Would you want a desktop machine or a notebook/laptop? Alexander Skwar -- I understand why

[gentoo-user] Re: dektop issues

2006-06-13 Thread ionut cristian cucu
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:54:44 +0300 (EEST) "Daniel Iliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, then I am not sure what exactly you want to do. This i wanted to to: # /etc/conf.d/local.start # This is a good place to load any misc programs # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output) /bin/su - cuci

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 14:31, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > Hello! > > > > I installed a new Gentoo system, but I find big problems with ati drivers > > and 3D acceleration. I have followed the wiki howto but now I receive > > this error message > > > > #fglrxin

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-13 Thread YoYo Siska
Mike Huber wrote: > There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the > point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate > installation guide. I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with > the --enable-diskless option. I'm not really sure how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Jacques Montier
Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > Alle 14:31, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > >> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> I installed a new Gentoo system, but I find big problems with ati drivers >>> and 3D acceleration. I have followed the wiki howto but now

[gentoo-user] Problem with eix

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches. I have updated eix update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb) Reading 100% [1] /usr/local/portage/ (cache: none) Reading 100% Applying

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 15:22, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: > Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > Alle 14:31, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > >> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > >>> Hello! > >>> > >>> I installed a new Gentoo system, but I find big problems with ati > >>> dr

[gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

2006-06-13 Thread anand kumar
Hi,I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with allthe new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkeydoesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this. Previously these keys were getting recognized and i was using FC. Isthere a link with the di

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:27:48 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: > I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches. > I have updated eix > update-eix > Reading Portage settings .. > Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. > [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb) > Reading 100% > [

Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs

2006-06-13 Thread Jim
* on the Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:28:17AM +0100, David Morgan said: > On 22:46 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: > > David Morgan wrote: > > > On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: > > >> Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) > > > > > > No need. > > > > > > sed -e :a -e '$!N

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box

2006-06-13 Thread John Blinka
Alexander Skwar wrote: > John Blinka wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new >> gentoo box. > > Do you have a "bigger" machine around on the same LAN, on which > you could do the building of packages? Would you want a desktop > machine or a notebook/lapt

Re: [gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

2006-06-13 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:19, anand kumar wrote: > Hi, > I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with all > the new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkey > doesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this. > Previously these keys were g

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Jacques Montier
Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > Alle 15:22, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: > >> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: >> >>> Alle 14:31, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: >>> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > Hello! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:12:48 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I first guess is to unmerge everything KDE, but even then, I'm not quite> sureNot everything KDE, leave arts and any other dependencies > what I should emerge in its place.  kde-meta?  An

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:39:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with > > xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate. > This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my point of > view. How > would I find out about t

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It started with a kalarm problem, proceeded to Gentoo dependency heck, and has progressed to the point that I fear the destruction of my current Gentoo system. (I do have a recent tar backup of my entire root filesystem). Right now I'm fighting with 'glib'.  Some things are calling for glib-1.2*,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dektop issues

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, ionut cristian cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # This is a good place to load any misc programs # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output) /bin/su - cuci -c /bin/bash I'm not sure that putting this in local.start is the right thing to do. It basically means that the init scri

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:39:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> > You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with> > xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate.> This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am partly to blame, of course. I got frustrated with older ebuilds that were causing some of the dependency trouble, and got carried away with "emerge --prune", which I guess is just as broken as it says it is. Ok, first take some deep

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "radeon" If you want to use the ati drivers, this should be "fglrx". -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
How to remove a binary package? I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from the system. My question: how to clean up when I'm done?  A cursory look at

[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem

2006-06-13 Thread Sven Köhler
>>> The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date >>> gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. >> Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. > > Perhaps we don´t need it, but we like to use it. > > The OP said he wanted to use the script. If he wants to use that, it´s his >

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:26:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > If you use /etc/rc.conf to set your desktop (the Gentoo way) then > > booting to a console and running startx will give you twm. > > alternatively, you could emerge another window manager, such as > > Fluxbox. > I guess I do. /etc/rc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  I am partly to blame, of course.  I got frustrated with older ebuilds that> were>  causing some of the dependency trouble, and got carried away with >  "emerge --prune", which I guess is just

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix > a problem I'm having. These are ones that have been made for > my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from > the system. > > My question: how to clea

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Alle 15:22, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: Did you enable via chipset support in Character Devices ( then modprobe via-agp) ? After compiling ati-drivers, did you run eselect opengl set ati ? eselect is ok: #eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implem

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 17:28, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: > Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > Alle 15:22, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: > >> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > >>> Alle 14:31, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > Mauro Arnoldi a gentim

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 18:40, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: > On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" > > Driver "radeon" > > If you want to use the ati drivers, this should be "fglrx". If I set like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:27:48 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: > > I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches. > > I have updated eix > > Have you switched to portage 2.1? If so, the cdb module is of no use. > Set PORTDIR_CACHE_

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > checking for gcc... gcc > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 > > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I set like you say I get: (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available I also have read that kernel 2.6.16 has problems with ati drivers, but I can't find a patch... This usually means you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Jarry
Ryan Tandy wrote: The chipset support you need is nothing to do with your video card - it's the driver for the AGP chipset on your motherboard. If you have a Via motherboard, you want via-agp, if you have an Intel you want intel-agp, and so on. A little OT: What if I do not have any agp, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix

2006-06-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Have you switched to portage 2.1? If so, the cdb module is of no use. > Set PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="backport" in /etc/eixrc. The default PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD="metadata" would do the trick too. -- Bo Andresen pgp4Zd54crVWW.pgp Description: PG

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What if I do not have any agp, but pci-express graphics? (nForce4 based mobo for workstation and intel 915gm based notebook) Do I still have to include agp-support in kernel? Which? I don't, but I am using the nvidia drivers. -Richard -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well this is a bit confusing, because the command that configure uses for the compiler test is: Something else that might give me some more ideas: find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 19:52, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: > On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I set like you say I get: > > (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0) > > (EE) No drivers available > > I also have read that kernel 2.6.16 has problems w

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Ptitjack
Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > Alle 19:52, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: > >> On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> If I set like you say I get: >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) No drivers available >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 21:10, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > Alle 19:52, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Richard Fish ha scritto: > >> On 6/13/06, Mauro Arnoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> If I set like you say I get: > >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mauro Arnoldi wrote: My ati drivers doesn't want to compile: #emerge -pv ati-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.25.18) [ebuild R ] x11-drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > checking for gcc... gcc> > >  checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Well this is a bit confusing, because the command that configure uses> for the compiler test is: Something else that might give me some more ideas:find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage-Richard--g

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for> my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned

Re: [gentoo-user] gamin

2006-06-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Arnau Bria wrote: > That's it! kdelibs! I can't figure why equery does not show it... It appears to have been fixed in gentoolkit-0.2.2. After a sync and an upgrade: $ equery depends fam [ Searching for packages depending on fam... ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.12.2 kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with ati-drivers-8.25.18

2006-06-13 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:40, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > Alle 15:22, martedģ 13 giugno 2006, Jacques Montier ha scritto: > > Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > > Alle 14:31, martedģ 13 giugno 2006, Ptitjack ha scritto: > > >> Mauro Arnoldi a gentiment tapote: > > >>> Hello! > > >>> > > >>> I instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:56 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > However, I'm not sure I got what you're talking about > in that > last paragraph. Unpacking to the root would pollute everything, no? > Then how > do I get a clean unmerge. Just for curiosity -- as I said, I don't > think I need it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:00:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Nope. I checked just for "FLAGS" and got nothing. What about emerge --info | grep FLAG -- Neil Bothwick Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location of all objects cannot be known simultaneously. Corollary: If a lost thing is f

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something else that might give me some more ideas: find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage That was a bit more productive: Yeah, but I still don't see anything that looks like a problem.

[gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, text, html. I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF files. I could convert to plain text, edit in OOo and export to PDF. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Looks like I'll be masking >=evolution-2.6.0 > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking the following fixed it for me =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug re

[gentoo-user] Raid and Gentoo

2006-06-13 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, I've bought a computer, and it has the possibility of making a RAID. I configured it through the BIOS setup. I've booted up Gentoo live cd with "dodmraid" parameter, so the raid was placed in /dev/maer/whatever. After installing everything (stage3, stage1 failed for me here in ~amd64), I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:54:00PM -0400, JimD wrote: > Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing > some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, > text, html. > > I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF files. I > coul

[gentoo-user] Connection refused for .gnupg/log-socket

2006-06-13 Thread Mick
I just noticed this: == $ eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)" can't connect to `/home/michael/.gnupg/log-socket': Connection refused == Is this meant to happen? Why can't it connect to the socket? Here it is: =

Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

2006-06-13 Thread Mick
On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces. Both applications show the tab /

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Google for "edit PDF +Linux". --- Vladimir On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:54 -0400, JimD wrote: Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, text, html. I would like to be able to insert a few grap

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid and Gentoo

2006-06-13 Thread Barny M
Rafael Fernández López wrote: > I've *NO IDEA* of how should I configure GRUB to detect my RAID. If you > can help me I'd be very happy !! Hi Rafael, hope this will help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Special:Search?search=Raid&go=Go If you are gonna using LVM, also http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo Sweatshirts

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi guys, Am here in the US. Would like to purchase a Gentoo Branded sweatshirt. There's one I found on Cafepress @29.99 which is hooded. Anyone knows of one which does not have a hood? Preferably something even cheaper than that?? -- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 23:54, JimD wrote: > Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am > digitizing some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert > that to postscript, text, html. > > I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF > files. I could convert to

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:00 -0400, JimD wrote: > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book > writers use? Books are normally written in DocBook or TeX and output to PDF/PS at the final stage. -- Neil Bothwick Sure, we just route the main sensor through Data's

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:54:00PM -0400, JimD wrote: >> Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing >> some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, >> text, html. >> >> I would like to be able to insert a few graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Google for "edit PDF +Linux". Did that. There wasn't much out there really. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

2006-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:13 +, Mick wrote: > On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution > > shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows > > square boxes in java applets wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread b.n.
JimD wrote: > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book > writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small > books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout. They use LaTeX. If you plan to write books/articles/whatever in publishing quality

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo Sweatshirts

2006-06-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ow Mun Heng wrote: >Hi guys, > > Am here in the US. Would like to purchase a Gentoo Branded sweatshirt. >There's one I found on Cafepress @29.99 which is hooded. Anyone knows of >one which does not have a hood? > >Preferably something even cheaper than that?? > > > If you are here long en

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
060613 JimD wrote: > Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? eix pdftk * app-text/pdftk Available versions: 1.12 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Description: A tool for manipulating PDF documents >From the

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
JimD wrote: >Justin R Findlay wrote: > > >>On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:54:00PM -0400, JimD wrote: >> >> >>>Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing >>>some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, >>>text, html. >>> >>>I would like to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:42 -0400, JimD wrote: > Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > > Google for "edit PDF +Linux". > > Did that. There wasn't much out there really. The first two results seem to be free versions of commercial product. You didn't specify open source. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Iva

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:39:52AM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > The following output is what /var/log/ntp.log looks like after issuing the > > following 2 commands: > > > > #/etc/i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:00:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> Nope.  I checked just for "FLAGS" and got nothing.What aboutemerge --info | grep FLAG--Neil BothwickHeisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location of all objects cannot be known simulta

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Something else that might give me some more ideas: find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage>> That was a bit more productive:>Yeah, but I

[gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +, b.n. wrote: > JimD wrote: > > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book > > writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small > > books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout. > > They use LaTeX.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Start digging. It completed just fine. Ok, do this and send me the result. # emerge --debug =dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 >~/glib-merge.txt 2>&1 -Richard PS. Please post further replies in plain-text. The multi-part HTML/text messages are ma

Re: [gentoo-user] MPlayer-1.0_pre8

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Rout
Can anyone clarify what actually is the latest and greatest? 1.0_pre8 or 20060415? On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:18:48 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:48, Pavel Kouril wrote: > > Can you merge mplayer-1.0_pre8? I can't and portage says that will be > > downgrade x( >

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix> a problem I'm having.  These are ones that have been made for> my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-13 Thread W.Kenworthy
You might want to check out the following ntp.conf options depending on your network link - in particular the panic 0 option or the commandline version '-g' tinker panic 0 huffpuff 7200 The huffpuff value seems to help on a loaded broadband connection, and I found it a must on a modem. The panic

Re: [gentoo-user] MPlayer-1.0_pre8

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone clarify what actually is the latest and greatest? 1.0_pre8 or 20060415? 1.0_pre8, released on 20060611: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something about this is just not clicking with me. I restored my backup to an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good. But... I got out of chroot,