[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo does not need any kind of installation CD. You can use other > Live CD's for installing Gentoo if you have hardware which is not > supported by the latest Gentoo Release. Absolutely correct! It would be good, though, if "them Gentoo folks" woul

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] stable non-anonymous free http proxy

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody recommend such proxy? Due to routing error between me and a > site I'm interested in I can no access the site. Of course, ad-free proxy > is better :-) You're looking for something like http://proxy.org/? Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gen

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you joke will become the truth. Currently, Gentoo has not updated > its installation CD for a long time! Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. To inst

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tel me how to install Gentoo in that case. Boot from any Live CD (like GRML) and do the installation from there, in a chroot. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Shaochun Wang: >> >> > Currently, Gentoo has not updated >> > its installation CD for a long time! >> >> They don't need to. One week ago I used a

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Michael Schmarck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> As far as I'm concerned, the Gentoo install CD could easily be dropped >> without a loss. >> >> Michael > > I'll try to m

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
outdated (ie. non-usable for new systems) install medium is also very bad. And if the installer doesn't work (satisfactory), then that gives an even worse impression. Michael Schmarck -- The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Ralph W

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Schmarck
mpressed form) to RAM. Only then, you can remove the CD. But this means, that you need to have at least 1 GB of RAM (800 megs for CD and something to be able to work). IMO that 1 GB of RAM would be better spend somewhere else during compilation time. Michael Schmarck -- "There is no sta

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Richard Marzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Although he works for Microsoft, Check your facts, please. <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39252292,00.htm>. Michael Schmarck -- printk ("scsi%d : Oh no Mr. Bill!\n", host->host_no); linux-2.6.6/driver

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 11, 2008 8:08 PM, Michael Schmarck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ? >> >> Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts >> in creating l

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Schmarck schrieb: >> · Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>> Right, basicly telling people "You have to depend on / use other distros >>> to install our OS, cause we are not able to / do

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
osting privileges? > > An archive list server or such? Gmane. They offer a NNTP/Usenet access at nttp://news.gmane.org and also a quite good web access at http://gmane.org/. Michael Schmarck -- E Out of DATA, 0:1 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
· James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Schmarck habmalnefrage.de> writes: > > >> Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I >> also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. > > Folks new to gentoo, woul

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
e with the handbook, as it may contain (theoritcal) up-to-the minute corrections. So, the portage snapshot and handbook don't have to on the Live CD. Stage Tarball - well, yes, that's an additional download, that's true. Michael Schmarck -- Narrator: Oh, no! He's heading towards Townsville! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
heers, >> > Renat >> >> Even more of a reason to bring him back! > > no, just another sign that he never pulls through. Or a sign, that he has his own "vision" and doesn't want to bend for it. Michael Schmarck -- People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
. I think it's not bad. Michael Schmarck -- Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
sary for installation for > many people, it is a part of what Gentoo should offer. I disagree. Maybe it's a bonus if it's offered, but then it "always" has to be up-to-date. And that, obviously, cannot be done right now. So I'd rather say, that it would be better,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:53:48 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > You also need the handbook, a portage snapshot and a stage tarball. >> > How many live CDs provide these? >> >> None. But the portage snapshot i

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:00:20 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > It is a lot more comfortable for the first-time installer. >> >> Why's that? > > Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence g

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-14 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:24:52 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > Because a first-time installer benefits from the confidence given by >> > using an official install disc. >> >> I don't understand that.

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild that installs partprobe

2008-01-14 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There a site out there that lists files installed for just about all > gentoo ebuilds, could some kind soul post the url for me please? I suppose you're talking about PFS, Portage File Search at http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/ - but that

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > Hello, > > Over the last week, I read where many folks recommend installing > Gentoo using GRML. > Since I have a p3 (650Mz) system I'm installing to build a > small web server for a friend, I figured I check out installing > gentoo via GRML. > > Does anyone

[gentoo-user] Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Yesterday, I upgraded to xorg-server 1.4 from 1.3. I also recompiled all the x11-drivers packages, including xf86-input-mouse-1.2.3. Today, I started Xorg 1.4 for the 1st time. When I now single click something, the system seems to get a double click. Examples: - In jedit, when I single c

Re: [gentoo-user] Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello! On Jan 15, 2008 10:16 AM, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded to xorg-server 1.4 from 1.3. I also recompiled > > all the x11-drivers packages, including xf86-input-mouse-1.2.3. > > > > Today, I started Xorg 1.4 for the 1st time. When I now single click > > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello again. On Jan 15, 2008 11:51 AM, Michael Schmarck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 10:16 AM, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yesterday, I upgraded to xorg-server 1.4 from 1.3. I also recompiled > > > all the x11-drivers packages,

[gentoo-user] Re: License issues [was:Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu unlimitedmail.org> writes: > > >> What you're saying here is not a secret, in fact these are all more or >> less well-known facts. Yes, they probably did violate some open source >> license. However, I don't see how having had closed source produ

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point I was trying to may (and not really a hard sell but just to > illuminate moving gentoo into more of an "Entrepreneur distro") > would be to build the future of Gentoo (or a fork) on a better license > model than GPL. Uhm, thanks, but no thanks. Why sho

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you think that the Industrial > Military Complex has not modified you precious GPL code, then we are all > in Deep Doo. I don't get you. They'll surely have modified the GPL code. But that's not a problem. If they were going to sell something, they must provi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Grüezi! On Jan 15, 2008 2:05 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > make menuconfig && make && make modules_install, maybe? This always works, > on any distribution. I still wonder why they all invent their own, special > way of compiling a kernel. Nice thing about genkernel (and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello! On Jan 15, 2008 1:54 PM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/01/2008, Michael Schmarck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ Installing via GRML ] > > IOW: Use the original documentation. Chapter 2 is of course then > > of no use, for the most p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Bon jour! On Jan 15, 2008 2:29 PM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/01/2008, Michael Schmarck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't quite understand. When you're installing stuff from > > within Kubuntu (or whatever Live CD), you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hi! On Jan 15, 2008 3:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:10:43 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > I don't quite understand. When you're installing stuff from > > within Kubuntu (or whatever Live CD), you're in a G

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone talking about grml here know where to download: > From grml.org: > > `Release grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk' > > Unless you want to use the baloney bit torrent download What's baloney about a bittorrent download? It's a good way to save on

Re: [gentoo-user] Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello again! On Jan 15, 2008 6:45 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > says which devices are evaluated and added. To keep it short, just disable > hotplugging in xorg by adding: > > Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" > > to Section ServerFlags. Then good ol' xorg.conf alone is used. I d

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Single click is interpreted as double click

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > > > What if you now change the > InputDevice"USB Maus" "SendCoreEvents" > to > InputDevice"USB Maus" "CorePointer" > ? > YEAH! That solved it. I can now single click again. M

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale? What do you mean with that? Sun bought MySQL AB, a company in Sweden (or that's whe

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:58:15 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I completely agree with Alan, Gentoo is a metadistro, and it provides >> (by Handbook) a LOT of ways to install, > > Ok, but I would like to see all those sabayon users taken into the fold. Uhm,

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
5,088 kB > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, > Umbrello,... > License: GPL-2 Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare. Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already hav

[gentoo-user] Re: SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 installed but still > when I install a kernel module I need to disable the sandbox by using > FEATURES='-sandbox' > > I am running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 and gcc-4.2.2 as standard > C-compiler. > > A

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is gaim no longer in portage?  Is it dead upstream? It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal issues with AOL and their AIM product. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by > openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering > what they are and which one I should be using. > > media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update! > media

[gentoo-user] [OT] Trying to use xauth -> Xlib: No protocol specified

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello folks! I know that this question is offtopic for this list, but maybe someone has a clue nonetheless... I'm trying to access my local X display (on a Gentoo Linux machine, of course - am I now on topic? *G*) from a remote system (running Solaris 10U4 on Sparc). I cannot use ssh to login to

[gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the > desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or > viruses. I suspect that a neat way to mitigate this would be to run an > OS from a CD which offers nothing more fancy t

[gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 443-653-1569 wrote: >> On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote: >> >>> atop 3 >>> >>> filter by "p" >>> >>> >>> >> >> WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've >> seen. Why haven't I heard more about it? >> >> Bill

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
quot;berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc -examples gdbm -ipv6 ncurses -nothreads readline -sqlite ssl -tk -ucs2" 9,174 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.17] 232 kB [blocks B ] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked How do you get around this b

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
Michael Schmarck habmalnefrage.de> writes: > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 [2.1.2.2] USE="-build -doc -epydoc > (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Schmarck
Good morning! Alan McKinnon-2 wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Alan McKinnon-2 wrote: >> > On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: >> >> [blocks B ] > >> app-shells/ba

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Jonathan Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this >> sort of stuff. > > The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Of course :) > Hence I was > using Ghost ins

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there really no way to search http://packages.gentoo.org ?!

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Schmarck
Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And I get this when I go there: > > Looks like they might be experiencing some downtime at the moment. Try > again later. They are down quite often, aren't they? :( Michael --

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Crayon Shin Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For >> example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these >> years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call i

[gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > >> I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the >> sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so >> that I

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willie Wong writes: > >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs >> squawked: >> > > I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the >> > > sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Henry Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs >> squawked: >> > >> > Put this in /etc/portage/package.use: >> > >> > sys-apps/man-pages -nls >> >> Do

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> >> I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for a

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> >> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Since "recently" (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: $ LC_ALL=C sudo ls -1 Last login: Mon Mar 17 07:12:40 CET 2008 from winnb000488 on pts/6 10001~ [...] Would anyo

[gentoo-user] Re: sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Since "recently" (I think since 2nd half of last week), when I use >> sudo on my ~x86, I get the last login time displayed: >> >> $

[gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael -- gento

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Is it possible to change the store location to something >> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? > > UK residents can buy from the iTun

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Schmarck
Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: >> >> > How can i create .tbz2 file >> >> Now the real thing: >> >> man tar [...] > I mean using quickpkg command What part of the documentation

[gentoo-user] Re: openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep > the overlay. I deleted it and removed the "source" line > in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: > VIDEO_CARDS="openchrome via" > > Now I get this: > uw

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. But I hear nothing at all :/ Any ideas about why that's so? The volume slider in rb is all the way up

[gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found" (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Andrey Falko gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck > habmalnefrage.de> wrote: > > Good evening! > > > > I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on > > my new ~x86 system. When I play an

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found" (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
I wrote: > Andrey Falko gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck > > habmalnefrage.de> wrote: > There's another problem: When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: > > No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices fo

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Good evening! > > > > I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on > > my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb > > progresses

[gentoo-user] Re: Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hi. Grant gmail.com> writes: > > > Would the type of filesystem encryption you guys are talking about > > > be unsuitable for a high-traffic server because of performance > > > considerations? > > > > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that nobody > > has physical ac

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt > to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem > before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very > little useful information. What would

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old > behaviour back. It seems entirely reasonable to me that rhythmbox > should DEPENDs on gst-plugins-base which should conditionally DEPEND > on -alsa or -oss (or other sound systems). Isn'

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Perhaps you could file a feature request at b.g.o. to get the old >> > behaviour back. It seems entirely reas

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > The question now is why were the alsa, oss and other drivers > > > removed from the -base ebuild? > > > > Because they belong to the meta package, I suppose. The

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found"

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Schmarck
Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on > gst-plugins-meta. Great to hear! > So you should get over it. I will. I "don't care" much about the 2.20 version then. They'll be history soon anyway. Cheers, Michael -- gentoo-user@l

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hal Martin gmail.com> writes: > > Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt > >> to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Hi there, > > I, too, thought about saying something like this at the time. I'm > glad you have done so and I agree with all your points. I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good to post as much information as possible. Instead

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > On Saturday 29 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > I, too, know what it's like to receive a reply to one of my > > > questions which I find to be unhelpful and aggravating. However, > > > "two wrongs d

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > On 29 Mar 2008, at 20:39, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > > >> I, too, thought about saying something like this at the time. I'm > >> glad you have done so and I ag

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 +0000 (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. > > Who dictates that? I don't know. Ask Alan, as he tries to dictate which po

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 +0000 (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good > > to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of > > inf

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> ... >> In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand >> that right? >> ... >> Get real. > > When you're describing someone w

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:09 +0000 (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > You have a problem to which you do not know the solution, so how are >> > you supposed to know what is important and what is not? >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth the Michael Schmarck: > >> My attitude? Well, maybe. But I rather think it has everything >> to do with Alan, who made a bad comment. > > Have you not noticed that you are the _only_ person upset by Alan's p

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> >> ... >> >> In your world, an aggressor is

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> So you found his post unhelpful, >> >> You disagree? You think that he was helpful with his KDE comment? > > I would be very surprised if he thought it was helpful.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Windows terminal to allow ssh into my Gentoo machine?

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Schmarck
pp if possible. PuTTY - that's basically *THE* terminal app for windows. It offers telnet, rsh, ssh, rlogin and also sftp and scp. Michael Schmarck -- Remember the... the... uhh. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one > tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of this, filesystem and/or applications might get corru

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > >> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. > > You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like pull

[gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: >> >> You're not shutting down the system

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > Neil even proposed ALT + >> > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and >> > unmounted. >> >> Which might or m

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:51:28 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> But nonetheless, there's still the risk that the KILL has >> destroyed the application database (sort of - more correctly: >> that the application and it

[gentoo-user] Re: Master - Slave MySQL Database Server

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > is this a correct documentation * > http://howtoforge.com/mysql_master_master_replication* for Master Slave > Replication and is there a test case to test this setup I'd advise to ask this question on the general mysql mailing list again; see <

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:51:29 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> In "prose": I have kde-i18n-3.5.8 installed. In tree, there's >> an update available (kde-i18n-3.5.9). >> >> Why was that updatedable

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > emerge --depclean >> >> thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed. Quite a >> lot. > > If you've removed kde-meta, I'm n

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:30:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, >> that I don't need (like kppp). It would be nice, if the kde-meta >> ebuild woul

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other option is to use the kde*meta ebuilds, which do directly > depend on the sub-ordinate packages. This is what I do and I don't get > the effect you observed. Thanks. I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, that I don't n

[gentoo-user] "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Maybe someone can explain this: $ sudo emerge -DuvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; would you like to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] $ emerge -vp

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Well, I disagree. I want to install almost all of the KDE stuff, >> but eg. not the PPP things, as I've got not use for that on that >> system. But I still woul

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that >> got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, >> because the dependent package got

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Hello. >> >> >> >> How do I make emerge update all the installed packages, if >> there's an update available? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe he does have multiple versions installed of those packages. What For gcc: Yes. It's about time to dump gcc-3.4.6. > is the output of for example: > emerge -avP gcc > ? $ emerge -avP gcc superuser access is required... adding --pretend to options. Calculat

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> >> > emerge --depclean >> >>

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