On 7/20/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, I'd forgotten about wxWindows. It's not in portage either. So I
guess that means I'll have to do 2 ebuilds?? (Nothing is ever simple!)
Technically it is called wxWidgets now (Microsoft paid them to change
the name I think), and it
Hi list,
I'm using gentoo since some months now, and I have to say that I
really start to like it, especially the possibility of
customizing and deciding how to 'create' your system.
On the 'not so happy' side I think I have found only minor
things; the biggest point is I don't have a 'consistent
Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/20/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How do I recreate all the dev files?
>
> This should work. It uses the same mechanism that Gentoo (/sbin/rc)
> uses at system boot time. /dev should *not* be mounted when this is
> run:
/dev should *NOT* be mounte
060721 Leonardo wrote:
> I'm using gentoo since some months now
> and I have to say that I really start to like it ... ,
Did it take you that long (grin) ?
> esp the possibility of customizing your system.
Yes, that's what Gentoo is largely about & living at the cutting edge.
> On the 'not so h
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> root (hd0,1)
> title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13
> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6
>
> 3. technically it is not "title=foo", but "title foo".
Strange thing is that the Handbook actually has "title=foo" in its GRUB
e
--- Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 060721 Leonardo wrote:
> > I'm using gentoo since some months now
> > and I have to say that I really start to like it ... ,
>
> Did it take you that long (grin) ?
Haha.
I think installing Gentoo takes forever. When it looks ok, I
start thinking how t
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:31 + (UTC), James wrote:
> Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13
> When it worked from the command line of grub?
Probably because you had a space after root on the command line, but not
in grub.conf. If you
Hi,
I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120.
I tried usermod, but cyrus files didn't change its owner.
could someone explain which is the way of changing user id and that
user doesn't lose its files?
many thanks in advance.
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On Friday, 21 July 2006 19:29, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have got a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150. Got video to work and play it from a
> VCR with "mplayer /dev/video0". Please note: This is about saving old video
> tapes to DVDs. I connected "Video OUT" from the VCR to "Comp V" of the TV
> card
On Friday 21 July 2006 12:02, Arnau Bria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120.
>
> I tried usermod, but cyrus files didn't change its owner.
>
> could someone explain which is the way of changing user id and that
> user doesn't lose its files?
You can use find to cho
Hi,
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:02:49 +0200 Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'd like to change cyrus id from currently to 120.
Why's that? You will at least bork the existing files to a degree that
they can't be automatically uninstalled by emerge anymore.
> I tried usermod, but cyrus files
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:54:16 +0200
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 12:02, Arnau Bria wrote:
> > could someone explain which is the way of changing user id and that
> > user doesn't lose its files?
>
> You can use find to chown all files owned by the user to the new uid.
>
> Untest
Hi folks,
what network filesystem would you suggest for an small LAN ?
I'm currently running NFS on 2.4 and 2.6, the machines are
somethimes mounting each other, and that's not really satisfying
(ie. load loops up, locking fails, etc).
cu
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Hi folks,
what does --deep actually do ?
I've just sync'ed and asked emerge what it would update:
emerge --newuse --update --tree --pretend world
Showed nothing. Okay, evrything up to daet.
But:
emerge --deep --newuse --update --tree --pretend world
showed several packages.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:01:27 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> what does --deep actually do ?
man emerge
/deep
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060721 Leonardo wrote:
> 'Till some months ago at home, and at work I was/am using Mandriva;
> when I urpmi a package there, it goes automatically in the kde menu.
> Isn't there a similar way of doing it in Gentoo,
That's what should happen with a KDE app on Gentoo.
It should be a function of KDE,
* Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Well, depends on how you define "open files are overwritten". On
> Linux, it is like you say. But on Windows and HP-UX, you CANNOT
> replace a file, if it's still opened somewhere. Eg. you cannot
> replace /bin/sh. Instead, a new file will be cre
* Janusz Bossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> There is no problem with that. Yesterday i did an emerge -C xorg-x11
> while xorg was running, then compiled xorg-x11 again and restarted the
> X server. All is working fine, except I couldn't start the
> applications that were built against X when
From "man emerge":
--deep (-D)
When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces emerge to
consider the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of checking
only the immediate dependencies of the packages. As an example, this
catches updates in libraries that are not directly list
On 7/20/06, Nunya Bidness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
REMOVE
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
* Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To sum up, portage will look for updates not only in your world
> file, but on dependencies too.
ah, so let's say i've installed package A (in world) which
required B. if I use --update w/o --deep, only A gets updated,
but not B.
On 7/21/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ah, so let's say i've installed package A (in world) which
required B. if I use --update w/o --deep, only A gets updated,
but not B.
What happens when a newer version of A requires some newer
version of B than currently installed ? Is B updat
Hi,
After upgrading to ooffice-bin-2.0.3 it simply won't run anymore. The initial
screen with the licence comes up but pressing on next crashes it.
I've looked on the bugs but there is no such thing there.
I had a problem before with the freetype lib but downgrading solved it; th
Hi, I need a quick help for a simple question.
My disk now looks like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 11G 9.2G 1.4G 88% /
udev 264M 242k 264M 1% /dev
/dev/hda4 4.9G 4.6G 329M 94% /home
/dev/
Catalin Trifu a écrit :
> Hi,
>
Hi,
>
>After upgrading to ooffice-bin-2.0.3 it simply won't run anymore. The
> initial
> screen with the licence comes up but pressing on next crashes it.
>I've looked on the bugs but there is no such thing there.
>I had a problem before with t
Yep. That's a usually newbie error. But I do think that nothing that
"revdep-rebuild" can't fix.
Bye,
Rafael Fernández López.
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
What happens when a newer version of A requires some newer
version of B than currently installed ? Is B updated automatically ?
Yes.
Daniel
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On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:54 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote:
> Hi, I need a quick help for a simple question.
>
> My disk now looks like this:
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 11G 9.2G 1.4G 88% /
> udev 264M 242k 264M
On 7/21/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:37:45 +0200, Janusz Bossy wrote:
> In my opinion doing emerge --update world instead of emerge --update
> --deep world will break your system fast.
It shouldn't, because if any package explicitly requires a later versio
It seems that with the current stable kernel, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13, and
stable ati-drivers, 8.21.7-r1, I get warning messages emerging
ati-drivers, which is not good:
WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/video/fglrx.ko needs unknown
symbol inter_module_unregister
WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.16-g
yes! i tried that one!
Fabrice Delliaux wrote:
> Catalin Trifu a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>>After upgrading to ooffice-bin-2.0.3 it simply won't run anymore. The
>> initial
>> screen with the licence comes up but pressing on next crashes it.
>>I've looked on the bugs but
Hello.
I noticed that after the last upgrade to gnome-terminal, my TERM
variable is set to 'gnome'. The way it is, it causes all kind of
trouble, when, for example, I ssh into another machine and get my TERM
set to gnome too. Things then don't work correctly, vim doesn't
highlight colors, arrow k
On Friday 21 July 2006 12:50, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Is there any quick command for removing packages that are no
> longer in world or one of their dependencies ?
From `man emerge`. Use with care and always investigate with --pretend first.
--depclean
Determines all packages installed o
Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
- Grant
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On Friday 14 July 2006 20:01, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> Nope, -C is the short for --unmerge. -c would be --clean.
Correct.
> And --clean cleans a package, that means when you have two versions of a
> non slotted ebuild installed. It automatically happens after you upgrade
> a package, first the new
Enrico Weigelt schrieb:
what network filesystem would you suggest for an small LAN ?
NFS. If Windows systems need to access the resources, I'd think
about installing MS SFU on those boxes.
Alexander Skwar
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Hi,
Actually, that is what I _have_ to do with my old TV card.
It doesn't have a input for audio and no internal mixer, so I have to record
the sound directly from the soundcard.
I use menconder to do just that:
mencoder tv:// -tv
driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=3:width=640:height=480:al
On 7/21/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
/dev should *NOT* be mounted?
What I mean is the command I gave you will attempt to mount /dev. So
if you are in that situation again, don't try to mount /dev yourself,
just run the command.
You can take a look at /lib/rcscripts/addons/ud
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes:
> how would I be able to record video *and* audio from the TV card
> into an MPEG2 file?
Hello Uwe,
In my experienes, you need to build a 'mixing studio' or at least
a very simple A/V mixing system. There are too many A/V tools to use.
I'd first look at the MoBo bo
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot)
> > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13
> > When it worked from the command line of grub?
> Probably because you had a space after root on the command line, but not
> in grub.conf. If you'd tol
On 21 July 2006 16:09, Marco Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, that is what I _have_ to do with my old TV card.
> It doesn't have a input for audio and no internal mixer, so I have to
> record the sound directly from the soundcard.
>
> I use menconder to do just that:
>
>
> mencoder tv:// -tv
> driv
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Enrico Weigelt schrieb:
what network filesystem would you suggest for an small LAN ?
NFS. If Windows systems need to access the resources, I'd think
about installing MS SFU on those boxes.
I spent a week fighting with SFU on 2003 last month. While I'm sure I
missed
On 7/21/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where, if anywhere, can I find an updated and current list of what
ati-driver version works with what Gentoo kernel?
I'm not aware of any list, but you can certainly check the ati-drivers
ChangeLog in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/Change
On 7/21/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I can live absolutely w/o any docs.
I find this incredibly ironic, considering that both of the portage
questions you asked here today were answered with pointers to, or
quotations of, the emerge man page :-/
-Richard
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On 7/21/06, don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# cd /dev
# /sbin/MAKEDEV hda hdb
# /sbin/cdrom_id --export /dev/hda
# /sbin/cdrom_id --export /dev/hdb
# /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hdb
# /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda
# ll /dev/hda
brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 21 08:20 /dev/hda
# ll /dev/hdb
brw-rw
Hi everyone,
I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces, so
when I try to access it in bash,
it is reported as not being found. How do I deal with it? For example,
/home/This is a some directory
Thanks for suggestions.
Alex
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> To sum up, portage will look for updates not only in your world
>> file, but on dependencies too.
>
> ah, so let's say i've installed package A (in world) which
> required B. if I use --update w/o --deep,
On Friday 21 July 2006 19:34, Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
> I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces,
> so when I try to access it in bash, it is reported as not being found. How
> do I deal with it? For example, /home/This is a some directory Thanks
> for sugges
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Escape the spaces with backslashes, or put the name inside single quotes
> or double quotes. Bash auto-completion escapes the spaces for you.
Let's everyone take a moment to reflect upon how much bash means to us.
Thank you. Now
Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces, so
> when I try to access it in bash,
> it is reported as not being found. How do I deal with it? For example,
> /home/This is a some directory
> Thanks for suggestions.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 19:34, Alexander Fortwinder wrote:
> > I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces,
> > so when I try to access it in bash, it is reported as not being found. How
> > do I deal with
type the first letter and press TAB key...
;)
Alexander Fortwinder escribió:
Hi everyone,
I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces, so when I try to access it in bash,
it is reported as not being found. How do I deal with it? For example, /home/This is a so
After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop.The error message I get:FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixingI tried to re-emerge media-fonts/font-misc-miscbut without succ
Alexander Fortwinder schrieb:
Hi everyone,
I'm downloading a torrent file which created a directory name with spaces, so when I try to access it in bash,
it is reported as not being found.
What did you do? What was the *EXACT* command?
How do I deal with it?
Correctly :)
For example, /
Mike Williams schrieb:
/home/"This is a some directory"
Now, if you're trying to get funny, this would also work:
/home"/This "\ is' 'a' 'some\ director"y"
;)
Alexander Skwar
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Leonardo wrote:
> I knew Kmenuedit already, but I have way too many apps to loose
> time reorganizing the menu going after them one by one.
So many apps!? But you do this only once, you never reinstall KDE
or Gentoo, the customized menus stay with you forever.
But good apps _do_ add themselves
How do I redirect the error from an emerge?
I did 'emerge system 2>&1 >t' and that does most of it but it misses the
actual error message.
'gpm -m /dev/psaux' fails to open null or I would copy the output to a file.
I did a new install and it is failing to emerge glibc.
gpm used to work on this
Benno Schulenberg schrieb:
But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain
a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your
favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream.
IMO that's one of the weakpoints of Gentoo. Other distributions,
like the
Am Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 22:57 schrieb Benno Schulenberg:
> But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain
> a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your
> favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream.
Is this also true for games? I know quit
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:11:48 -0400, James Lockie wrote:
> How do I redirect the error from an emerge?
Set PORT_LOGDIR in /etc/make.conf. The directory you set it to must exist
and be writable by portage.
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:17:55 +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
> Is this also true for games? I know quite a few games which haven't got
> their own .desktop files, like torcs, ace of penguins and gl-117.
File bugs for them.
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Benno Schulenberg wrote:
But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain
a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your
favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream.
What I'd really love would be for the ebuild to elog which menu folder
t
On 7/21/06, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do I redirect the error from an emerge?
I did 'emerge system 2>&1 >t' and that does most of it but it misses the
actual error message.
2>&1 >foo is the wrong syntax for what you want. This first copies
stderr to stdout, and the second par
On 7/21/06, Leonardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the 'not so happy' side I think I have found only minor
things; the biggest point is I don't have a 'consistent' kde
menu:
I think you will find that Gentoo follows the $upstream releases much
more closely than other distributions...
some app
Mark Knecht wrote:
However, isn't that only part of the required file set?
There are patches and other things generally needed to allow an ebuild
actually install correctly. Where do I get those?
Just direct ${BROWSER} to sources.gentoo.org, and look in the gentoo-x86
repository. Anything tha
Holas,
I decided to perform my (semi) monthly `emerge -a --depclean`, and ran into a
problem.
Part of the cleaning involved
-- media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad
selected: 0.6.4
protected: none
omitted: 0.8.11
Well, doing this bails with
/var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/
On Friday 21 July 2006 16:03, Nadav Horesh wrote:
> After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to
> text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop. The error
> message I get:
>
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1;
> fixing
David Corbin wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 16:03, Nadav Horesh wrote:
>> After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to
>> text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop. The error
>> message I get:
>>
>> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
>
> - Grant
what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource?
> --
> gentoo-user@gento
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:40:07 + (UTC)
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes:
>
> > how would I be able to record video *and* audio from the TV card
> > into an MPEG2 file?
>
> Hello Uwe,
>
> In my experienes, you need to build a 'mixing studio' or at least
> a very
Nick Rout wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
>Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
>>is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
>>
>>- Grant
>>
>>
>
>what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or oth
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700
Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
> >Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> >>is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:08:51 -0700
kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Enrico Weigelt schrieb:
> >
> >> what network filesystem would you suggest for an small LAN ?
> >
> > NFS. If Windows systems need to access the resources, I'd think
> > about installing MS SFU on
Howdy all,
I ran an update deep and such, and things worked nicely. And after
that I ran a revdep-rebuild, and things didn't go so smoothly. I'm
running into this error:
/usr/lib/libGL.so: No such file or directory
Now, I do have libGL.so.1, as well as 1.0.7174 (which I think i
Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700
> Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
>>> Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
is? Ge
On 7/21/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR
> is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins.
>
> - Grant
what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a web
On 7/21/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyways, anybody know what I need to emerge to get the libGL.so that
revdep-rebuild wants to see to be there? Thanks!
"eselect opengl set xorg-x11" should take care of it.
-Richard
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:32:28 -0400
PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all,
> The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter:
> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml
>
> Has info about "The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project", with a link:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/deskt
Hey Richard, thanks for the reply, but I've already run that command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] xorg-x11 *
Any other ideas?
R
Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anyways, anybody know
On 7/21/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Richard, thanks for the reply, but I've already run that command:
That really should work:
carcharias rjf # ll /usr/lib/libGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jul 21 22:13 /usr/lib/libGL.so ->
/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
carcharias
checking size of long double... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof
(long double), 77
See `config.log' for more details.
!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile
glibc-2.3.6-r4.ebuild, line
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