Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

2006-08-05 Thread Adrian Frith
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:12 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote: > Thanks Guys, > > That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it > worked except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on > this? emerge xf86-input-keyboard, perhaps? (or add "keyboard" to INPUT_DEVICES in ma

[gentoo-user] VHS->digital: Best application ?

2006-08-05 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What application is best to capture the video to my HD (200GB free)? Encoding can take place in a second step. First goal should be the capturing of the video/audio data with a quality as g

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Watson
Well I've wasted everybodt's timeon this ... sorry. It was a kernel problem. I had created a new one when configuring for cpufreqd and used the wrong processor type. Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Critical task upgrades (was [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?)

2006-08-05 Thread David Corbin
> It is a critical task, and as such, it needs to be done by an > administrator, under supervision, and, thus, by hand. If I wanted any silly > package admistration system messing with things like the default flags and > compiler, I would better use any other distro. > > The problem is that a sour

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

2006-08-05 Thread Pete Pardoe
Thanks to all!  I am up and running in modular X with keyboard and all.PeteOn 8/5/06, Adrian Frith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:12 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:> Thanks Guys, >> That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it> worked except that I have no key

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to emerge gcc over and over

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
revdep-rebuild wants to emerge: =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 even after it has just been emerged via revdep-rebuild. Is there a way to fix this? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Alsa/LineIn: Playback wonderful, Capture awful...

2006-08-05 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, mysterious, mytserious... An audio signal from an external source is fed into the line-in connector of my sound"card" (its on the mobo integrated...AC97 VIA Chipset/ Asus AV8 mobo). The pure playback of the external signal is fine without distortion, but if I set the channel to "input

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox without/with gdm ?

2006-08-05 Thread dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51
Tiring of bloat, I removed everything kde-ish and installed fluxbox - without installing gdm (gdm was recommended in the Gentoo fluxbox doc, but I figured I didn't need the GUI startup. (bloat avoidance)). I tweaked .initrc, startx'd and fluxbox was great. exceptwhen entering pa

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to emerge gcc over and over

2006-08-05 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Samstag, 5. August 2006 17:04 schrieb Grant: > revdep-rebuild wants to emerge: > > =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 > > even after it has just been emerged via revdep-rebuild. Is there a > way to fix this? > > - Grant Hi What file is the reason for this? If it's the following, this has already been d

[gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

2006-08-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I can't figure this one out and couldn't find anything relevant in the archives. I emerged the stable build of Firefox 1.5.05 a couple of days ago. By default the java USE flag is turned off, but I didn't worry about this since I use Sun's java plugin. I don't know if this is relevant to th

[gentoo-user] missing-host-name

2006-08-05 Thread Alex Fortwinder
I'm trying to setup mutt following the guide and setting my NBsmtp with the following option in ~/.muttrc set sendmail="/usr/bin/nbsmtp -U [EMAIL PROTECTED] -P somepassword -d gmx.net -h mail.gmx.net -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]" However, when I send a test message to the another address, I got wrong FRO

[gentoo-user] Re: minicom && usb-serrial cable config

2006-08-05 Thread James
Sarpy Sam gmail.com> writes: > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1645:8003 Entrega [hex] > When I compile the Entrega usb driver into the kernel is shows > up in dmesg: > drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for > Xircom / Entrega PGS - (prerenumeration) > and I can go to

[gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after every however many characters? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minicom && usb-serrial cable config

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/5/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm stumped and also found nothing useful googling around. What driver are you using? Looking at 2.6.18-rc2, I find an entry Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial Converter support -> USB Xircom/ Entrega Single Port Serial Driver. It is CONFIG

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant schrieb: Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after every however many characters? Hm. How did you enable that in the first place? You might want to check your /etc/vim/* and ~/.vim* files. Alexander Skwar -- Audience: What will become of Linux when the Hurd is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after every however many characters? Is it actually inserting line breaks? Or just wrapping long lines for display? If actually inserting line breaks, then you have textwidth set somewhe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:19:41PM -0700, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > every however many characters? :set nolinebreak echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Mark
Look for: set textwidth= Or shorthand: set tw=... If you set this to 0 .. then it will not wrap. You can do this on a per file basis with the vim modelines: # vim:set tw=0: As suggested look in the rc files. Thanks Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Saturday 05 August 2006 23:19, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > every however many characters? > > - Grant vi doesn't do that on default, perhaps you mean line wrapping? If so, "set nowrap" should fix it :) Put it in your ~/.vimrc to make it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 23:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Grant schrieb: > > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > > every however many characters? > > Hm. How did you enable that in the first place? > > You might want to check your /etc/vim/* and ~/.vim* files.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > every however many characters? :set nolinebreak echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc Yes! Freedom! Thank you everyone. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > every however many characters? > > - Grant vi doesn't do that on default, perhaps you mean line wrapping? If so, "set nowrap" should fix it :) nolinebreak actually fixed it. Does anyone know why vi might be inserting line

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > every however many characters? :set nolinebreak echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc This worked great for plain vi, but the problem persists with mutt. Any suggestions for mutt? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

[gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread Grant
Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. gmail ;-> -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Grant wrote: > Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something > lightweight. I use xfce4. the mutt -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. pgpOWhw8G1vDe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:48:53 -0700 Hi, I have kinda "reverse question" to this vi/vim problem: I am using vim as vim (not in compatible mode). When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
sylpheed On 8/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

2006-08-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/5/06, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My plugins look to be all complete. Java applets are fine and I can >> play video in Firefox just fine as well. If a new window is launched >> using mplayer plugin for that, I get sound. However, I don't have sound >> f

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
060806 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs > one could reformat paragraphs with "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) > so there were linebreaks inserted and removed > to make the paragraph fit best into the previously defined line width. > I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

2006-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:01:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Meino Christian Cramer squawked: > When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs > there was the possibility to reformat paragraphs wirh > "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) so there were linebreaks inserted and > removed t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?

2006-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something > lightweight. I use xfce4. > What's wrong with mutt? (You mentioned that you used it in another thread.) Best, W -- "You seem less impressed than you shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

2006-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
Sorry that I can't really help with your problem. On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:03:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked: > The other issue is a video from this particular link > http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?inc=5&news_id=8090. I > was able to get sound in video on t

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ slotting question.

2006-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Uhg...my bad. They are the same. Sorry for the noise. - Mark On 8/5/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: myth12 ~ # eix -I gtk+ * x11-libs/gtk+ Available versions: 1.2.10-r10 1.2.10-r11 2.6.10-r1 2.8.8 2.8.12 ~2.8.17 ~2.8.18 2.8.19 ~2.8.20 ~2.8.20-r1 [M]2.10.0 [M]2.10.1 Insta