Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: > >> > >> On 24 August 2010 11:23,

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, dhk wrote: > On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > >>> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman > > [major snippage] > Check out x11-apps/amlc -- it has an interactive modeline generator > wh

[gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sn't it odd that the display "manager" has such weak control on its "subordinate"? Big PITA for me. Gr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before > HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 > aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > > control the display manager. My problem has been that going to > /etc/init.d > > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman wrote: > > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > >> control the display manager. My

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
aul Hartman > >>> > > wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > >>>>> I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention > the > >>>>> clock speed. I guess I

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: > > I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, >> inste

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim < > ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> wrote: > >> Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: >> >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d >> >> and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. >> Manually

[gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
queror gives me unrelated trouble, which I'm still working on -- I don't use it in general so I'm not surprised, but I cannot say what it does with captchas. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] How and whether to take action on elog message from sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ction on this message, even if I thought it important to do. Anyone have a clue? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/26/2010 04:29 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>> On a number of websites, I've been unable to see the "captcha" that

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rything to a file, and look at the file however you like. If using less(1) or more(1), I would do it this way emerge -NDpvu world 2>&1 | less under the bash shell. There are a lot of advantages to less, but perhaps the most important is that you can scroll backwards if you've gone too far -- you don't have to start over. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
If you use screen you can then use the scrollback it provides > > Or adjust your terminal preferences to have a lot of scrollback room. The defaults tend to be in the range of 0 to 500 lines. I often set the value to 30,000 or more, with no noticeable bad effects. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tools. It helps to have a really big /tmp (mine has 19GB free at the moment), and to keep using the same name in case you forget to delete the (possibly huge) file. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and more pleasant to find the right tool for the job, rather than complain about what anyone else is doing. For me, case closed and I can go back to doing what I want. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
accounts to be had that can forward to wherever you like. I yet another gmail account like that for some specific sensitive traffic that I want semi-anonymous. I'm sure there are other free accounts that can do the same. Save your money for the things you really need. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi wrote: > On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András > > Csányi did opine thusly: > > > >> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
is, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if > someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful! > I'm still at 4.3.4, and having these problems. I wouldn't be holding my breath for a silver bullet. I'm writing this on chormium, having jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
p up an > ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho. > > Any takers ? :P > > Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > >> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Har

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e these require the game's installer CDs to work. > > I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an > activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be using > it. > > Stroller. > > Wouldn't that be kind of sensele

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> ... > >>>>> I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is > not free (as in beer). Is that true? > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e, the corresponding line does not include the DISPLAY variable, and it happens to work fine that way. Try just keeping HOME. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
way, it can remind me what's going on, and seems more direct. It also works if I "su" to root. As an old-timer on Unix, I often forget sudo. I don't like it much anyway because it won't get me into root if something goes wrong in bootup: with this in mind, I need a root PW anyway, until that bottleneck gets fixed. The above form is actually only used in a debugging mode I've defined, and is silent otherwise. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
work > without having *both* OS shifting the clock by one hour ... > > The more I read this page[1] the more I am tempted to format MSWindows out > of > this box whether the warranty is still valid or not! > > [1] > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html<http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
d)link :) > > sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 > > HTH >Francesco > > I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
me a shove in the right direction. I'm pretty good at this, but I only configured Postfix once and it was a long time ago. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no > longer > > able > > to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:57:42 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I don't even know where to start on this. > > I'd start by looking at the logs, I think Postfix logs to syslog by > default. The first quest

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, kashani wrote: > On 11/15/2010 8:37 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Color me stupid. It was stopped. It started when I told it to in >> /etc/init.d. >> Now I have to wonder what stopped it. Judging from the mail that got >>

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
kg so I had a binary package lying around. Emerging it with -gK restored the files, and everything was okay. OTOH, a couple of years ago I did an emerge -e and regretted it. It kept stopping because something wasn't configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in "world" - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t recent call last): > File "./auditworld", line 20, in >import gentoolkit.sets > ImportError: No module named set > Are you sure it's even it gentoolkit? I have that but no auditworld on x86. It's not in gentoolkit-dev either. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n but does not disclose which process is listening. Does anybody know how to find this out? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 an

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk wrote: > On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > > listening. > > > > Does anybody know how to find this out? > > netstat o

[gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages that unconditionally depend on hal (besides hal-info): k3b and gnome-mount. I don't care much about gnome-mount (this is primarily a KDE system), but I definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. > > According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages > that &g

[gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
just wondering about how --depclean picked on this one of the five? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > I just ran "emerge -p --depclean" and the only thing it wants to remove > is > > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12. So my system's pretty clean, b

[gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
w do I get evolution to stop nagging me about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/4/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I sent a mail with a bad address, and it continues to haunt me. I > can't figure out a way to get evolution to just abandon it. Whenever > I quit, it remi

[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
if (isgraph(i)) printf(" graph"); if (islower(i)) printf(" lower"); if (isprint(i)) printf(" print"); if (ispunct(i)) punctf(" punct"); if (isspace(i)) printf(" space"); if (isupper(i)) printf(" upper");

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:10, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails': > Why is it that using some of

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 04:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > gcc -Wall ctype.c -o ctype > I get > ctype.c:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isblank' $ gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall ctype.c -o ctype -- Bo An

[gentoo-user] Emerge -aDvu world stopped by media-sound/xmms

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer !!! Depgraph creation failed. treat portage # -- Kevi

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

2006-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7 6f 48 1e df 00 ba" uuid.bios = "56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d5:f3:35" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" checkpoint.vmState = "" tools.remindInstall = "TRUE" -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for me what package, let alone version, they belong to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? Should I just delete them anyway? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/30/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that > Dynamic linking on your system is co

[gentoo-user] Gcc complains about TLS and errno; I baffled

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n-TLS reference in /tmp/cc6urgct.o /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value But when I try to look up TLS, all I get is a bunch of stuff about a server-to-server email security protocol. What is it talking about here, and where can I find out about it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman

[gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or xfs, say -- and allow executables and such? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ve advice about how to improve that process? Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers? I'm not looking forward to the pains-taking process of vetting each and every one of the 231, but I don't want to be spending the time to recompile the presumed multitude that I

[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
loaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but still get that message. about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/16/06, Boris Fersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my >flash Player plugin

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
com" BTW: it also says to set dns_domain_lo, but I have no name for my internal network, and haven't seen a reason to create one. Nevertheless, even the system calls getdomainname(2) and uname(2) return the string "(none)". What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
cairo and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. > > I was trying to figur

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > > w

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s a way to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he FQDN by "hostname --fqdn", so the order on the line is important. Neither of these affects the results of "hostname", although I did not reboot to test the theory that this might make a difference. It seems more likely this comes from /etc/conf.d/hostname ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dules both apparently successfully. My attempt to /etc/init.d/vmware start fails and suggests both of the above measures. This is pretty serious for me. Any suggestions? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, > and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': > On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
are/doc index files\n"; print "\n"; print "li, p { margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; }\n"; print "\n"; print "\n"; print "\n"; print "Index of /usr/share/doc index files\n"; print "\n"; while () { chomp; s:^\./:

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's > > wonderfully hard t

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had > thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. > Care to: &g

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. And I have emacs 21.4-r4 installed, but instead of /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
copy of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
epends =sun-jdk-1.4.2.10" shows nothing at all 3) sun-jdk does not appear at all in /etc/portage/package.* files How should I explore this further?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> Or should I say portage as a whole.  Anyway, my latest emerge world> failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!).  The current one is 1.5> something. The weird part i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
+java +perl -php +python +ruby +tcltk [ebuild  NSF  ]  dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10  +X +alsa -browserplugin +doc -examples -jce +mozilla +nsplugin 35,592 kB Of course, since Java is slotted, I should probably just go ahead and re-emerge  that older version.   I was not clear when I said that emerge failed, because there is the option to download the file from Sun.  It still seems weird, though, that these packages are not satisfying their dependency with the Java that I have. Sigh. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Oh, and yes, java is ~x86 both in unmask and in keywords.-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2006-01-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Summary: I'm running java 1.5, I also have 1.4 emerged.On 12/31/05, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:47, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:>> The question now seems to be: why doesn't db use Java 1.5?>Yup and it is weird. I have jdk 1.5 ins

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2006-01-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 02:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> Oh, and yes, java is ~x86 both in unmask and in keywords.Can you list exactly what sun-jdk lines you have in/etc/portage/package.{unmask,keywords} please? Of course. Oops!!

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ce I guess that's my problem too.  How do I know what's using OSS?  Can I just disable it completely while leaving ALSA intact? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he system, as a backup of everything.>> Just add "buildpkg" to your FEATURES in make.conf.That will work for new merges and updates.For current packages: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* Where do they go when you do that?  How do you use them later? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
direction?  I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, if I know the appropriate FM to R. ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote:> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800> "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> > I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails> that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of> stuff I don't recognize. >> I&

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on.  Any hints how to explore this? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating Win4Lin

2005-04-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t;to my Gentoo > >system with the Win4Lin kernel. Is there anything special I have to > >look out for? > >It's been running so long I've forgotten everything I ever knew about > >the (binary?) > >licence file(s), configuration and so on. > > >

[gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
a fix? I have no idea where to look for "chrome://" so there's not much for me to do... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Pointers on wine and Quicken?

2005-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
backup -- not a good thing, or open a QIF file). ++ kevin -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
hat's the real state of things? Can I use any of them? All of them? What? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I should probably add, since processor speeds were listed on most boxes, that this is a dual Xeon (P IV based), (2 hyperthreads each for a total of 4) rated at 1.2 GHz. ++ kevin On 8/18/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's time for me to get a DVD recorder fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, I would much prefer to see the make/model of comparably priced items that were rated good. I'm trying to buy, after all, not discard existing stuff. Nevertheless, this is helpful (I think) because I was starting to lean towards a Plextor PX-740A-BP OEM drive. Now I'll wait to see what others say. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
uname) 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-kosmanor #1 SMP Isn't it possible to package one of these and share it? (Provided anyone would trust me not to be malicious). ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? > > I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using as an > overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be happy to > share if anyone is interested. Yes please. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of my emerges.  I like to clean 'world' when I can. Anyway, just a pointer would be good.-- Kevin O'Gorman

[gentoo-user] libghoto2 emerge fails -- what to do?

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
RROR: media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.6 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 85, Exitcode 2 !!! install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Emerge win fails -- what to do

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
docs !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
There is indeed.  Thanks very much. ++ kevinOn 8/31/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there's /var/log/emerge.logOn Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> How can I find out the last few things I emerged?  I've tried the> docs, but I can't seem t

[gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
verse and backports.  I see no signs of 2.0. How can this be, gen-too-ers?  Surely, I'm missing something. What did I mess up?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
x27;ll try your formula and see what happens. ++ kevinOn 9/7/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest and greatest. How odd it is that I can only find OpenOf

Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-1.9.122 !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!!    on the same system. treat portage #  On 9/7/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I am using gentoo because I w

[gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
versions would behave better.  No luck. I may have misconfigured it early on.  Is there something in particular I should look for?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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