Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 Oktober 2009, Dave Jones wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 01:39: > > On Saturday 24 October 2009 01:25:44 Dave Jones wrote: > >> Ran an eix-sync followed by an emerge -puDNv world. > >> It reported that my 'profile' was no longer supported, and suggested > >> switching to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:05:19 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > 900a [tons of bottom quoting snipped] I'm sure my 900 had working cursor and delete keys. -- Neil Bothwick There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert. signature.as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:10 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Since LiveDvD-10.1 boots, albeit buggily, on the netbook. I tried to > use the kernel config provided with it. I ran make oldconfig then > opened up the menu and whittled away the extraneous modules, built the > new kernel, installed it and

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either > to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. Seeing as how this has been discussed in the last two days, I don't see how Alan's advice is useless. The que

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 02:02:16 schrieb Dave Jones: > > Please search the mail archives. Or read your elogs, it's all in there. > > Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either > to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. It's neither useless to you n

[gentoo-user] Can not get Hotkeys to work after update to KDE4

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Johansson
After updating from KDE3.5 to KDE4.3.1 I can not get my Hotkeys to work. For example the following the following two Hotkeys 1) I want the button to start ksnapshot and I activated the Printscreen action in System Settings -> Input Actions -> Preset Action -> Printscreen. 2) I want to start dolp

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote: > > My syslog is showing zillions of messages: > > > > Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 > > from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: > > /etc/

[gentoo-user] firefox dies on setting master password

2009-10-24 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome 2.26 upgrades. Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password. It just dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ... Ive rebuilt firefox, and nss and used revdep-rebuild. It was working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-24 Thread Stroller
On 22 Oct 2009, at 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:17:46 Maxim Wexler wrote: Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. > Seeing as how this has been discussed in the last two days, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

2009-10-24 Thread covici
Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote: > > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the > > > > first time. On my previous x86 machine (some o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

2009-10-24 Thread covici
William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote: > > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first > > > > time. On my previous x86 machine

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox dies on setting master password

2009-10-24 Thread walt
On 10/24/2009 02:51 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome 2.26 upgrades. Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password. It just dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ... Ive rebuilt firefo

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Etaoin Shrdlu (Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:35:48 +0100) > > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > I did > > > > > > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 > > > > > > and all the settings (not just only konqueror's) were picked up. > > > > That did not work for me, all windows had no window title then

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 24.10.2009 03:37, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Peter Weilbacher wrote > >> How would you do history searches without a database? > > If you don't know how, I suggest checking the Firefox 2.x code. It > worked somehow. Yeah, I am reading the sourc

[gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 and get it to use java-pkg-2. Here's what I have so far: inherit java-pkg-2 eutils S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator" HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/"; SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/downl

[gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-24 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times. I'm looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up. Mine seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here. I googled and found that the + and - keys should adjust this but I can't tell that it is work

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 14:58:00 Dave Jones wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53: > > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either > >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times. I'm > looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up. Mine > seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here. I googled > and found that the + a

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:12:22 Grant wrote: > I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 > > and get it to use java-pkg-2. Here's what I have so far: > > inherit java-pkg-2 eutils > > S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" > DESCRIPTION="Web photo album gene

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
>> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 >> >> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far: >> >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils >> >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" >> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator" >> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/"; >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-24 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times. I'm >> looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up. Mine >> seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:32:18 Grant wrote: > >> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: > >> > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 > >> > >> and get it to use java-pkg-2. Here's what I have so far: > >> > >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils > >> > >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" > >> DESCRIP

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:36:59 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times. I'm > >> looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up. Mine > >> seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 22:18: >>> Why should they do it again when you could just as easily find >>> the previous answer yourself. >> I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful >> to other users > It's only useless so you since you have not done the usual research

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
>> >> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: >> >> >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 >> >> >> >> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far: >> >> >> >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils >> >> >> >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" >> >> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator" >> >> H

[gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: http://bugs.gentoo.org/179971 - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:51:05 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > How presumptuous of you to say so. Has the gentoo-user group become the > resource of last-resort? Has gentoo-user become restricted, to be used > only when all other avenues of exploration have been exhausted? If that > is so, then shame

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:29 -0700, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? > This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome > overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: According to eix, there's a - ebuild in the mpd overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-24 Thread kashani
Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote: My syslog is showing zillions of messages: Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: /e

[gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-24 Thread Philip Webb
I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is Xfce, which is started via 'wizard' & offers basic useful ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 October 2009 23:51:05 Dave Jones wrote: > > I'm sorry you found my answer less than informative and perhaps even > > somewhat insulting, obviously I worded it incorrectly. But you see, > > your "aw gawd, an 'RTFM' answer..." is the identical reaction to my > > original "aw gawd, a 'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 October 2009 02:46:32 Dale wrote: > Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I have read a number of different explanations and suggestions, some > > of them regarding an earlier, yet similar, tanglement between versions > > of qt-*. I've tried a number of suggestions, and I have unmerged and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
>> Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? >> This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome >> overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: > > According to eix, there's a - ebuild in the mpd overlay. Thanks Neil. My layman stuff was split acros

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Arttu V.
Grant wrote: I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 and get it to use java-pkg-2. Here's what I have so far: inherit java-pkg-2 eutils S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator" HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/"; SRC_URI="http://j

[gentoo-user] Gnome audio (mixer) question

2009-10-24 Thread walt
I'm not sure when this problem started because I seldom need to use the gnome gui interface to alsamixer (i.e. mixer_applet2). I've added the gnome "volume-control" applet to my gnome panel for years, but sometime in the recent past the "mixer" function has vanished. When I right-click on the vo

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

2009-10-24 Thread Grant
>> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356 >> >> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far: >> >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils >> >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum" >> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator" >> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/"; >>