[gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:53, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds. If not which is the easyer way ? I'm not sure to understand what are you looking for, but maybe unclepine is the tool for you: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=249828 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote: What I really should have asked is: Do you see the [ ok ] after Starting local..., or does the pause happen before that appears? If the [ ok ] appears quickly, then (stating the obvious) something after /etc/init.d/local is causing the pause. It might be a problem with /sbin/agetty or /bin/login. The [ok] appears right away with Starting local ... . Looks to you like something in /sbin/agetty or /bin/login then? Can you please send the contents of /etc/inittab and /etc/pam.d/login? I'll be sending you the contents of these files in a reply to this reply right away, Daniel. Please don't ask me why I'm doing it this way. :-) jlowell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
John Lowell wrote: Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote: What I really should have asked is: Do you see the "[ ok ]" after "Starting local...", or does the pause happen before that appears? If the "[ ok ]" appears quickly, then (stating the obvious) something after /etc/init.d/local is causing the pause. It might be a problem with /sbin/agetty or /bin/login. The [ok] appears right away with "Starting local ... ". Looks to you like something in /sbin/agetty or /bin/login then? Can you please send the contents of /etc/inittab and /etc/pam.d/login? I'll be sending you the contents of these files in a reply to this reply right away, Daniel. Please don't ask me why I'm doing it this way. :-) jlowell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Here are the files, Daniel, albeit in an unorthodox way. Your indulgence is appreciated. :-) jlowell # # /etc/inittab: This file describes how the INIT process should set up #the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified by: Patrick J. Volkerding, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified by: Daniel Robbins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified by: Martin Schlemmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/inittab,v 1.6 2003/01/06 21:32:43 azarah Exp $ # # Default runlevel. id:3:initdefault: # System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc. si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit # Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel. rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot #z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux # What to do at the Three Finger Salute. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now # Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup. # Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more # info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing # extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added # to the default runlevel. x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh # End of /etc/inittab #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth sessionoptional /lib/security/pam_console.so -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Login, Schmogin
On Sunday 09 January 2005 09:28, John Lowell wrote: Sad to say, it's about a week later and I've still no answer to a question I've raised here a couple times and on the forums also. I say this in no way to complain but rather to express utter surprize, actually. There's a lot of first class Linux talent available on this mailing list so if I've stumped you guys, I've really achieved something. There are some more test to do on your side ;-) I've made a fresh, stage one install on a machine I intend to use as a webserver. I've done a lot of successful Gentoo installations so it's not as though I'm an amateur. The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt. On my three workstations this transition take no time at all, it's virtually instantaneous. I have nothing in /etc/conf.d/start.local and my USE= is limited to -kde. pam is installed. I have no idea what in heaven's name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. jlowell If you can exclude pam, you still should check 1) is lo device up and working? (I borked lo, time ago on a rh7 box and it took forever to do basilar tasks) 2) hostname dnsdomainname domainname and their config files; IMHO are really tricky to setup and can led to weird delays As a last resort you can create a new runlevel and try to build it step by step to see what is delaying startup. You may exploit /etc/conf.d/local.start not leaving it blank, and to do something really useful instead, such as redirecting ps verbose output to a file, or better, to start in background a watch task including ps... If you have a serial terminal handy (many PDA have vt emulators) you can see if the problem is in /etc/inittab (agetty setup, for example) HTH. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two
On Sunday 09 January 2005 07:40, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. The oddities: For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very time-consuming. If you sync your system once in a quarter you can expect strange behavior ;-) Seriously: it can depend on the fact that the upgrade/update touched portage and/or profiles. For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. ++ kevin I put a signature as comment in every /etc/ file I edit, so it is easier to sort out which config files deserve _more_ attention. IMHO, anyway you should better - sync your system more often or - plan big builds when you have time to look them after. Again IMHO ten minutes saved in a blind etc-update with a -3 or -5 switch don't worth hours trying to solve strange issues, and potentially rock solid system crawling... Dispatch-conf may be better suited to your likings, tough... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 03:37:28 -0800 John Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The [ok] appears right away with Starting local ... . Looks to you like something in /sbin/agetty or /bin/login then? My wild guess would be some DNS issues. Does your /etc/hosts contain at least: 127.0.0.1 localhost your hostname here ? If not, your machine could either timeout on DNS lookups or even trigger a dialup to reach your nameserver. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Not working tar -lcf - . | ssh system tar -xvpf -
How come this is not working?? portage $ tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x tar -xvpf - -C /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage tar: Bad Option: -xf. Usage: tar cmd [options] file1 ... filen Use tar -help and tar -xhelp to get a list of valid cmds and options. Use tar H=help to get a list of valid archive header formats. Use tar diffopts=help to get a list of valid diff options. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:58:18 up 7:06, 8 users, load average: 3.42, 2.84, 2.04 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:53, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds. If not which is the easyer way ? I'm not sure to understand what are you looking for, but maybe unclepine is the tool for you: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=249828 Ciao Francesco one shot one kill, it's exactly what I was searching for. Ciao Francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Not working tar -lcf - . | ssh system tar -xvpf -
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:09:34 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come this is not working?? portage $ tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x tar -xvpf - -C /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage Is the target machine running GNU tar as well? If so, this *should* work. Alternatively, you can use $ scp -rp * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage or $ scp -rp * -l root x.x.x.x:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage That's much more portable. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Not working tar -lcf - . | ssh system tar -xvpf -
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 18:59, Marc Ballarin wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:09:34 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come this is not working?? portage $ tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x tar -xvpf - -C /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage Is the target machine running GNU tar as well? If so, this *should* work. It's 2004.2 Gentoo LiveCD. Alternatively, you can use $ scp -rp * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage or $ scp -rp * -l root x.x.x.x:/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage I know.. But that's slower compared to tar or rsync That's much more portable. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:39:41 up 7:47, 2 users, load average: 1.42, 2.07, 2.43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside
DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds.
If not which is the easyer way ?
I'm not sure to understand what are you looking for, but maybe
unclepine is the tool for you:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=249828
Ciao
Francesco
one shot one kill, it's exactly what I was searching for.
Ciao
Francesco
spoken too fast as always, unclepine check dependancies of installed
packages, I need a way to grep the portage tree DEPEND variables.
anyway it's an interesting tool, saved for later use ;)
I was thinking to something like:
find /usr/portage -name *.ebuild -exec grep -ls
\sDEPEND=.*dev-db/mysql {} \;
but DEPEND variable span across multiple lines, and I don't know how to
parse it :(
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev and cdrecorder permissions
Mitko Moshev wrote: Makurin Roman wrote: Hi All! I`ve got a problem with udev and my cdrecorder permisions. Cdrecorder is /dev/hdd, in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions I found these lines: sr*:root:cdrom:660 scd*:root:cdrom:660 pcd*:root:cdrom:0660 cdrom*:root:cdrom:0660 dvd:root:cdrom:0660 rdvd:root:cdrom:0660 cdroms/*:root:cdrom:0660 ls -l /dev/hdd: brw-rw 1 root root 22, 64 Jan 8 18:26 /dev/hdd ls -l /dev/cdroms/* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 8 18:26 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - ../hdd Since /dev/hdd is not accessible for cdrom group ordinary users can`t write to it. How can I fix this problem ? Umm Looking at that output, I'd say it's plent accessible. the owner (root) and the group (cdrom) both have read and write permissions, so I don't see any problem. If you want to access the cdrom just add yourself to the cdrom group. it says root root... look at the udev rules for hdb (hd* ?), becase those rules you listed tell only about /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, which is a symlink and perms on it therefore don't have any effect you can chceck also /etc/security/console.perms, pam changes the perms after someone logs into a console (X) and after he logs out.. -- _ | YoYo () Siska === http://www.ksp.sk/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two
If you have an ATI card the downgrade to Xorg 6.7 would be clear. The ati-drivers package simply depends on Xorg 6.7. It is said ATI will deliver a set of drivers supporting Xorg 6.8 (and DRI) this month. In the meantime you could either go with 6.7 or re-emerge 6.8 but forget DRI for the moment (and yes it is working). 291 config files: how long didn't you update your machine? Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. The oddities: For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very time-consuming. For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. ++ kevin -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
Had the same problem yesterday. The answer was simple: the system was not able to resolve it's own hostname XY via DNS (understandable). After putting it into /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localname XY everything went fine. John Lowell schrieb: Sad to say, it's about a week later and I've still no answer to a question I've raised here a couple times and on the forums also. I say this in no way to complain but rather to express utter surprize, actually. There's a lot of first class Linux talent available on this mailing list so if I've stumped you guys, I've really achieved something. I've made a fresh, stage one install on a machine I intend to use as a webserver. I've done a lot of successful Gentoo installations so it's not as though I'm an amateur. The install went on without a hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and there's a delay of 22 seconds before Starting local ... transitions in to the usual This is .. and the login prompt. On my three workstations this transition take no time at all, it's virtually instantaneous. I have nothing in /etc/conf.d/start.local and my USE= is limited to -kde. pam is installed. I have no idea what in heaven's name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. jlowell -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP
Well, then good luck then. ;-) Vittorio schrieb: Heinz: Well, I am sorry Vittorio but I am not sure if you understand the concept of the magic USE flag right. Apparently I didn't understand that! Let me put it this way: 1. Look into your /etc/make.conf 2. Check if the line starting with USE= contains the string jpeg I now have a richer USE line in make.conf USE=-java -gnome jpeg tiff gimpprint 3. Remove all occurences of -jpeg in that file 4. Run an emerge -pvV gimp 5. Does it now come up with +jpeg or -jpeg ??? With +jpeg* 6. And please forget that echo $USE stuff ;-) Wrongly I had put the above USE line in a file under /etc/env.d to be executed as an environmental variable. My mistake! Thanks for shedding a light on it!! Tomorrow I'll have another compilation of the Gimp. Vittorio schrieb: Perhaps I'm somewhat slow or I don't understand how to use emerge correctly but ... as I stated my USE : - # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint - *** contains *** the jpeg (and tiff and gimpprint) flag. Therefore, in a nutshell, I don't understand where I am wrong according to you. Ciao Vittorio Alle 19:52, sabato 8 gennaio 2005, Heinz Sporn ha scritto: Again: perform an emerge -pvV gimp It should come up with something like: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.0.4 +aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc gimpprint* +jpeg +mmx* -mng* +png +python +sse* -svg* +tiff -wmf* Notice the +jpeg flag. If you have -jpeg then run USE=jpeg emerge gimp exactly as stated here. Vittorio schrieb: I didn't succeed! I had a go with: # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint # emerge unmerge gimp To be on the safe side!!! # emerge -b gimp BUT I'm still unable to open a jpg file (of the hundreds I used to work with!!) under the Gimp (unknown file)! Please help Vittorio Alle 19:31, venerdì 7 gennaio 2005, Heinz Sporn ha scritto: Look at the output of emerge -pvV gimp. You'll notice that it uses the jpeg flag. So either perform USE=jpeg emerge gimp or add jpeg to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf and emerge Gimp again. Vittorio schrieb: Dear All, I compiled gimp 2.0.4 from the latest stage1 but it doesn't support jpeg files requiring an extra library. Therefore I've just compiled the media-libs/jpeg library from stage1 but gimp is still unable to open jpeg files. What else should I compile? Thanks Vittorio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ps ax stuck process, help :)
Hello, I was editing package.keywords on ctrl,alt f1 vith vim I know I pressed a ctrl- ? (opps it may have been f or s) the terminal has totaly locked :-( I tried the usual, Esc etc, I tried everything. I did a ps ax 2762 tty1 S+ 0:00 vi package.keywords followed by a kill 2762 It still stays alive ! followed by a kill -9 2762 That killed it but my terminal is still frozen. I remember someting about terminal ctrl codes freezing output in one of my linux books but cannot find it again. I could be wrong but I suspect I just have to ctrl - something to unlock it. Any ideas ? Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote: On the other hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all. Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it seems the same as dispatch-conf. I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it does it a different way, and I don't understand the output (it displays diffs, for example, in such a way that I can't recognize which is which, and I don't easily see the commands to select one or the other). I admit this is my problem and likely not some fault with dispatch-conf, but I can understand etc-update on first sight, whereas dispatch-conf, I can't, which seems odd to me, and tends to turn me off it. Admitedly there are minor differences, but both of it does the same job and it's roughly the same process. On rare occasions, there's something I want from both blocks and getting the new settings means removing a line from the old that I think I want. This doesn't happen often, and when it does is limited to one line, or a few easily recognizable lines, that I then edit manually after finishing the operation on the file. That really In dispatch-conf, there's an option to interactively merge the difference between both files and choose which gets merged into the final file. It also splits into 2 sides via a vertical line and you choose left or right. Yes, of course, you can do that in etc-update as well. My issue was, suppose the block of the individual diffs comprises 6 lines. In the original, there are 3 blank lines, one line containing a setting, and one two-line comment. In the new file, there are 4 blank lines and one two-line comment. If I want to both adjust the comment (from the diff) and keep the setting (from the original), I have to edit the file manually, because merging the diff refers to merging blocks from one with blocks from the other, not merging line-by-line (which is, admittedly, manual editing). This is not a problem (because the one setting line I want to also add is just one line, and easily recognized, so not difficult to copy and paste), and this issue does not come up often by any stretch of the imagination, but is occasionally necessary, thus something to keep an eye out for, that's all. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fetchmail not flushing yahoo pop3
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:46 -0700, D. Wokan wrote: Yahoo does allow POP3 access as a paid-for add-on feature. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list No, you don't have to pay for POP3 access to yahoo mail accounts. jane -- Jane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...
Ok. I deleted the original Pilot entry from Pilot Settings. Restarted gpilotd-control-applet and added the Tungsten again which went fine. The terminal output was as follows: ** Message: No pilot userid/username information located ** Message: Unable to load pilot id/username, assuming unset ** Message: Cradle Type - USB ** Message: cradle device name - Cradle ** Message: cradle device name - /dev/usb/tts/1 ** Message: Pilot Speed - 115200 ** Message: Timeout - 2 gpilotd-Message: Activating object OAFIID:GNOME_Pilot_Daemon ** Message: No pilot userid/username information located ** Message: Unable to load pilot id/username, assuming unset ** Message: Cradle Type - USB ** Message: cradle device name - Cradle ** Message: cradle device name - /dev/usb/tts/1 ** Message: Pilot Speed - 115200 ** Message: Timeout - 2 Strange thing though: after closing the applet, /usr/libexec/gpilotd kept running and prevented jPilot to synchronize. I remember that in earlier Gnome versions there was a small applet that allowed me to turn that thing on and off allowing other applications to talk to the Palm. Nevertheless synchronizing with Gnome/Evolution didn't change a thing. Except for contacts everything is simply ignored. Since your problem seems to be more technical we should propably compare our environments: As of January 8th I am running a 99% stable Gentoo with kernel 2.6.9 and Gnome 2.8.2. The only unstable package regarding our problem is: app-pda/jpilot 0.99.7-r1 The rest: app-pda/pilot-link 0.11.8 app-pda/gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.10-r1 mail-client/evolution 2.0.2 The hardware (kern.log after inserting the Palm): Jan 9 14:27:41 spok kernel: uhci_hcd :00:1f.2: port 1 portsc 0093 Jan 9 14:27:41 spok kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: port 1, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: debounce: port 1: total 100ms stable 100ms status 0x101 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: uhci_hcd :00:1f.2: CTRL: TypeReq=0x2301 val=0x2 idx=0x0 len=0 == -32 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 19 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: default language 0x0409 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: Product: Palm Handheld Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc. Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: hotplug Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: adding 1-1:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1:1.0: hotplug Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Jan 9 14:27:42 spok kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 That's it. David D. Rea schrieb: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no warnings no errors. So at least I guess we are not alone ;-) OK, let's try an experiment to see if we're really on the same page. Run `gpilotd-control-applet` from a terminal window, and see what the output looks like when you try to set up a new Pilot and click Get ID from Pilot or whatever the button says... If you see the following on the terminal output, we are indeed in the same boat: (gpilotd-control-applet:8611): gpilotd-WARNING **: gnome-pilot-client.gob:484: Caught exception: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Then we will figure out what's going on - WE SHALL EMERGE VICTORIOUS! ~Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...
I made real progress - and it is embarrassing how. I simply overlook a tiny checkbox in Evolution titled Personal. So I am fine now David D. Rea schrieb: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no warnings no errors. So at least I guess we are not alone ;-) OK, let's try an experiment to see if we're really on the same page. Run `gpilotd-control-applet` from a terminal window, and see what the output looks like when you try to set up a new Pilot and click Get ID from Pilot or whatever the button says... If you see the following on the terminal output, we are indeed in the same boat: (gpilotd-control-applet:8611): gpilotd-WARNING **: gnome-pilot-client.gob:484: Caught exception: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Then we will figure out what's going on - WE SHALL EMERGE VICTORIOUS! ~Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ps ax stuck process, help :)
I remember someting about terminal ctrl codes freezing output in one of my linux books but cannot find it again. I could be wrong but I suspect I just have to ctrl - something to unlock it. If you did hit CTRL+S, then hit CTRL+Q to unlock it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
On 2005-01-09 03:47:04 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Here are the files, Daniel, albeit in an unorthodox way. Your indulgence is appreciated. :-) Those files look okay. Like a few others have suggested, check that your /etc/hostname (e.g. server1) and /etc/dnsdomainname (e.g. example.com) are set correctly and that your FQDN (server1.example.com) and short hostname (server1) are listed in /etc/hosts. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nxclient unmasked, servers masked..?
I'm looking at nxclient, and realize I need a server too. However both nxserver-enterprise and nxserver-business are masked. Oh and nxserver-personal is masked, too. nxserver-freenx is unmasked, but I have no idea if this will do the task, and the URL listed in esarch doesn't exist. Anyone know how I get nx working in gentoo? -- fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The only things keeping me using Windows
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/08/2129250from=rss HTH On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:11 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: emerge net-www/netscape-flash On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:05 -0500, Alec wrote: Jamie Dobbs wrote: he only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. KDE's own Quanta And someone's NVU, which is Mozilla Composer with more DreamWeaver-like features. All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games. Yes I guess I could play the flash versions of the games - is there any way these can be 'downloaded' so I don't have to be on the 'Net to play them? But I'd prefer Linux equivalents (I know, not much chance there!) flash games*shudders*. You'd have to go to Flash's site and get their Moz/Opera/Foo plugin and install it. Relatively painless, just a script to run, and you need to know where your browser is installed. Not sure if there is an ebuild, but if there is I'm pretty sure it's fetch restricted. So if anyone can give me any pointers to software for Gentoo that will let me get rid of Windows and just use Linux then I'd appreciate it. I should note that because of issues in the past I'm not keen on anything not in the stable branch of Gentoo. :-) (But I'm prepared to be told that I have nothing to worry about should I try again) Cheers Jamie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation
Alle 00:29, domenica 9 gennaio 2005, Sascha Hlusiak ha scritto: Vittorio schrieb: I have been building my own gentoo box from scratch with the latest stage1. Now, I'm compiling everything and the kde stuff with the following USE variable # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint BUT kdeartwork fails during compilation. Here it is an extract of the session: ... Euphoria.o(.text+0x2e59): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glTexParameteri' Euphoria.o(.text+0x2e77): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glTexParameteri' Euphoria.o(.text+0x2e90): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glTexParameteri' Euphoria.o(.text+0x2ea4): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glTexParameteri' Euphoria.o(.text+0x2ef5): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glTexImage2D' Euphoria.o(.text+0x3105): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `gluBuild2DMipmaps' Euphoria.o(.text+0x316e): In function `EuphoriaWidget::updateParameters()': : undefined reference to `glDeleteTextures' Euphoria.o(.text+0x1591): In function `wisp::draw()': : undefined reference to `glPopMatrix' Euphoria.o(.text+0x18c4): In function `wisp::drawAsBackground()': : undefined reference to `glPopMatrix' Euphoria.o(.text+0x2947): In function `EuphoriaWidget::resizeGL(int, int)': : undefined reference to `glTranslatef' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [keuphoria.kss] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdeartwork-3.3.2/work/kdeartwork-3. make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdeartwork-3.3.2/work/kdeartwork-3. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdeartwork-3.3.2/work/kdeartwork-3. make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdeartwork-3.3.2/work/kdeartwork-3. make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdeartwork-3.3.2 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 142, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make . ... Please help. I know these errors from compiling some packages with nvidia driver installed, which offers own libraries and include files. Switch to the xorg opengl interface with: opengl-update xorg-x11 Then compiling should work good, when it is finished, you can just call opengl-update nvidia to activate the nvidia interface. If you don't have a nvidia board, please tell me your card and which kind of driver you have installed. Sasha, I made it, at last!! I mean the compilation. I don't have a nvidia chipset. lspci tells the following: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] What should the last step be? Thanks for the helpful suggestion! Vittorio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation
Please help. I know these errors from compiling some packages with nvidia driver installed, which offers own libraries and include files. Switch to the xorg opengl interface with: opengl-update xorg-x11 Then compiling should work good, when it is finished, you can just call opengl-update nvidia to activate the nvidia interface. If you don't have a nvidia board, please tell me your card and which kind of driver you have installed. Sasha, I made it, at last!! I mean the compilation. I don't have a nvidia chipset. lspci tells the following: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] What should the last step be? I see that opengl-update can handle the ati drivers. So you should be able to switch to the xorg-x11 opengl implementation with opengl-update xorg-x11 compile, and switch back to ati with opengl-update ati I hope, this works. I don't have an ATI. Sascha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nxclient unmasked, servers masked..?
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:22 +0100, meax wrote: Greetings, I dont' kow if this helps (haven't played with nx myself), but did you look at the gentoo guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nx-guide.xml HTH max Wasn't aware of this, thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with 2004.3-r1 universal live cd image
Hi All- I'm having some installation problems that are associated with the subject CD image: install-x86-universal-2004.3-r1.iso I recently downloaded and burned this iso image to CD. I checked the gpg signature and md5sum before and after burning and they were both ok. On two very different hardware platforms, I've used this image to install Gentoo systems and either during or after installation (or both), I've seen these problems: Various emerge -v X commands have failed with segfaults and messages along the lines of, ...not reproducible so probably hardware or OS related In one case, even the tar -xvjpf stage3-... command segfaulted. I managed to get it to complete after several tries and by removing the -v flag (for some odd reason, the -v definitely has an impact on whether or not segfaults occur on both boxes with either tar or emerge). In this case (with the tar files), I md5sum'ed the stage3 bzipped tarfiles and they were ok, but bzip2 -vvt reported integrity problems (with the one I wanted and all the others on the CD also, except for one of them). Later, running bzip2 -vvt reported no integrity problems, so I went ahead with the tar -xjpf command without problem. Clearly, something is inherently unstable here because running the same command (bzip2 -vvt) on the same file stage3-whatever fails at one point in time and succeeds at another (no reboot in between). I've also seen kernel Oops and kernel panics. The two hardware platforms were: 1) An eMachines T2824 desktop computer. Specifications: -Intel Celeron D 325 Processor (2.53 GHz, 256k L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB); -Intel 845GV Chipset -8-in-1 Digital Media Manager (USB 2.0, Secure Digital (SD), Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Micro Drive, Multimedia Card) -standard 256 MB DDR (PC 2100) RAM replaced with 1024 MB of same -http://www.emachines.com/support/support_info.html?prodName=T2824 for others if you're interested. I used the stage3-pentium4 tarfile for this. I'm really not sure if that's right or if I should be using one of the others (i686? pentium3? x86? With Celeron processors, how does one decide which CFLAGS and binaries to use?). I chose pentium4 because memtest86+ v1.11 reported the CPU as a pentium4 and I've seen some hints that some Celeron processors are Pentium-4 flavors. 2) A very old Cyrix 6x86 with 132 MB RAM, using the stage3-x86 tarfile. I have run memtest86 and memtest86+ on both boxes (at least 10 passes each) and discovered no errors with the memory in either case. Interestingly (at least to me), memtest86+ v1.3 reports FSB at 133 MHz rather than 533 MHz. Could this be a clue as to the cause of the problems? Does anyone have any thoughts on what's causing this strange behavior? I installed first on the eMachines box and suspected hardware problems, but the segfaults were not so frequent that I could not proceed, so whenever I encountered one, I just ran the command again until it completed successfully and figured I could troubleshoot the hardware more later, after the base install. But now that I've seen the same sorts of problems on this Cyrix 6x86 CPU, I'm less inclined to think hardware problems and more inclined to think that there may be some problem with the software on the subject iso image. Has anyone else encountered this? Any ideas as to what else could be the problem if not the memory? As I said, the md5sum is fine on the cd image, the cd itself, and various tar files on the cd. Is there another hardware component that could be causing this (aside from the memory). TIA for any thoughts. -Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I see that opengl-update can handle the ati drivers. So you should be able to switch to the xorg-x11 opengl implementation with opengl-update xorg-x11 compile, and switch back to ati with opengl-update ati I hope, this works. I don't have an ATI. I do (have an ATI card). It does (work)--- assuming all went well with the ati binary driver install; I don't know if this command is appropriate if one is using the kernel 'radeon' drivers, which use MESA, afaik. ;-) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeartwork-3.3.2 failing compilation
Holly Bostick schrieb: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I see that opengl-update can handle the ati drivers. So you should be able to switch to the xorg-x11 opengl implementation with opengl-update xorg-x11 compile, and switch back to ati with opengl-update ati I hope, this works. I don't have an ATI. I do (have an ATI card). It does (work)--- assuming all went well with the ati binary driver install; I don't know if this command is appropriate if one is using the kernel 'radeon' drivers, which use MESA, afaik. ;-) This is covered by the xorg-x11 opengl subsystem, like on my notebook, which uses the Intel I915 kernel module. I only have the xorg-x11 subsystem. opengl-update is needed, when one has different opengl-headers and opengl-libs installed, like with nvidia and ati drivers. Sascha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Small fonts when printing webpages from Konqueror
Hi, my girlfriend likes to print webpages for some reason. Unfortunately, text is printed out very small, maybe 8 points is the size. In kwrite there are settings for the textsize for display and print, but I didn't find a similar option in Konqueror. Anyone a small hint for me? Thanks best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] THE .muttrc color definition set
050108 Grant wrote: I just plugged in a set of color definitions for the .muttrc file it sure is cool. Can anyone point me toward their favorite? running on Konsole with a normally white background, i have : color normal black default color message black default color error red default color indicator red default color status cyan default color index blue default ~A color index green default ~U color index black default ~D -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with 2004.3-r1 universal live cd image
Been there too :( Really, boot a memtest86 kernel and test your hw. #emerge memtest86 Don't remember if there is any memtest-option on the LiveCD...? Cheers! /C -Original Message- From: Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9 januari 2005 17:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with 2004.3-r1 universal live cd image Hi All- I'm having some installation problems that are associated with the subject CD image: install-x86-universal-2004.3-r1.iso I recently downloaded and burned this iso image to CD. I checked the gpg signature and md5sum before and after burning and they were both ok. On two very different hardware platforms, I've used this image to install Gentoo systems and either during or after installation (or both), I've seen these problems: Various emerge -v X commands have failed with segfaults and messages along the lines of, ...not reproducible so probably hardware or OS related In one case, even the tar -xvjpf stage3-... command segfaulted. I managed to get it to complete after several tries and by removing the -v flag (for some odd reason, the -v definitely has an impact on whether or not segfaults occur on both boxes with either tar or emerge). In this case (with the tar files), I md5sum'ed the stage3 bzipped tarfiles and they were ok, but bzip2 -vvt reported integrity problems (with the one I wanted and all the others on the CD also, except for one of them). Later, running bzip2 -vvt reported no integrity problems, so I went ahead with the tar -xjpf command without problem. Clearly, something is inherently unstable here because running the same command (bzip2 -vvt) on the same file stage3-whatever fails at one point in time and succeeds at another (no reboot in between). I've also seen kernel Oops and kernel panics. The two hardware platforms were: 1) An eMachines T2824 desktop computer. Specifications: -Intel Celeron D 325 Processor (2.53 GHz, 256k L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB); -Intel 845GV Chipset -8-in-1 Digital Media Manager (USB 2.0, Secure Digital (SD), Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Micro Drive, Multimedia Card) -standard 256 MB DDR (PC 2100) RAM replaced with 1024 MB of same -http://www.emachines.com/support/support_info.html?prodName=T2824 for others if you're interested. I used the stage3-pentium4 tarfile for this. I'm really not sure if that's right or if I should be using one of the others (i686? pentium3? x86? With Celeron processors, how does one decide which CFLAGS and binaries to use?). I chose pentium4 because memtest86+ v1.11 reported the CPU as a pentium4 and I've seen some hints that some Celeron processors are Pentium-4 flavors. 2) A very old Cyrix 6x86 with 132 MB RAM, using the stage3-x86 tarfile. I have run memtest86 and memtest86+ on both boxes (at least 10 passes each) and discovered no errors with the memory in either case. Interestingly (at least to me), memtest86+ v1.3 reports FSB at 133 MHz rather than 533 MHz. Could this be a clue as to the cause of the problems? Does anyone have any thoughts on what's causing this strange behavior? I installed first on the eMachines box and suspected hardware problems, but the segfaults were not so frequent that I could not proceed, so whenever I encountered one, I just ran the command again until it completed successfully and figured I could troubleshoot the hardware more later, after the base install. But now that I've seen the same sorts of problems on this Cyrix 6x86 CPU, I'm less inclined to think hardware problems and more inclined to think that there may be some problem with the software on the subject iso image. Has anyone else encountered this? Any ideas as to what else could be the problem if not the memory? As I said, the md5sum is fine on the cd image, the cd itself, and various tar files on the cd. Is there another hardware component that could be causing this (aside from the memory). TIA for any thoughts. -Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nomachine: nxclient / nxserver-freenx
I read the URL about using nomachine in Gentoo, thanks for the URL.
However it talks about using nxserver-{personal,business,enterprise},
and all three are masked.
So I thought i'd check out nxserver-freenx, however I am running into
multiple problems compiling x11-nx 1.4.0-r3.
Has anyone been able to get nxserver-freenx and nxclient going?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside
DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds.
If not which is the easyer way ?
I'm not sure to understand what are you looking for, but maybe
unclepine is the tool for you:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=249828
Ciao
Francesco
one shot one kill, it's exactly what I was searching for.
Ciao
Francesco
spoken too fast as always, unclepine check dependancies of installed
packages, I need a way to grep the portage tree DEPEND variables.
anyway it's an interesting tool, saved for later use ;)
I was thinking to something like:
find /usr/portage -name *.ebuild -exec grep -ls
\sDEPEND=.*dev-db/mysql {} \;
but DEPEND variable span across multiple lines, and I don't know how
to parse it :(
The easiest way I can think of is using AUX_GET.py. I can't
remember if it came with portage, or if genone gave it to me. Anyway,
here it is. Now if you want something out of ebuilds just do aux_get.py
DEPEND PACKAGE and it will go into the Database and fetch it.
The down side is it used the portage database instead of the ebuilds
themselves, so it's kinda slow ;)
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#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, /usr/lib/portage/pym)
import portage
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print need exactly two arguments: key and value
sys.exit(1)
# make a few assumptions for now
db = portage.db[/][porttree].dbapi
key = sys.argv[1]
value = sys.argv[2]
for p in db.cp_all():
for pv in db.cp_list(p):
if value in db.aux_get(pv, [key])[0].split():
print pv
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Re: [gentoo-user] ps ax stuck process, help :)
James Hiscock wrote: I remember someting about terminal ctrl codes freezing output in one of my linux books but cannot find it again. I could be wrong but I suspect I just have to ctrl - something to unlock it. If you did hit CTRL+S, then hit CTRL+Q to unlock it. CTRL Q works for me ! Cheers Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Resolution change
Hi, I recently ran emerge --update world. After doing so, I ran etc-update to update the config files, and used the -3 options to automerge. After reboot, my screen resolution changed and now everything's too big. Any ideas how to change the resolution back to 1024x768? Thanks Bill Six __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
On Sunday 09 January 2005 04:53 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux
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Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside
DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds.
If not which is the easyer way ?
I was thinking to something like:
find /usr/portage -name *.ebuild -exec grep -ls
\sDEPEND=.*dev-db/mysql {} \;
Can't you simply use qpkg -q dev-db/mysql ?
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[gentoo-user] Re: Not working tar -lcf - . | ssh system tar -xvpf -
portage $ tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x tar -xvpf - -C /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage you can also try netcat which should be much faster than ssh, since it's without encryption - but setting up netcat could be more complicated (i never used it yet) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Resolution change
Nevermind. sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix gave me what I needed. --- Bill Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently ran emerge --update world. After doing so, I ran etc-update to update the config files, and used the -3 options to automerge. After reboot, my screen resolution changed and now everything's too big. Any ideas how to change the resolution back to 1024x768? Thanks Bill Six __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Hi all! Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment: http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel. It seems to me that fonts aren't rendered very well, especially in web browsers (both Mozilla Firefoz and Konqueror). Does anyone have some hints to help me getting font better rendered? Thank you. Fabrizio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My first suggestion would be to use *real* fonts (no offence intended). Those serif, sans-serif and monospace you've got listed imo render the worst of all the possible fonts you could have installed. If you don't have any real fonts installed, check out the bitstream-vera, msfonts, and many other font packages available in Portage, and then set your browser to use them to render web pages. Now, this won't help with the menus and all, because that is set by gtk, and your fluxbox desktop fonts are usually set by the theme, iirc. A lot of them (fluxbox themes) like you to have the artwiz fonts installed. I've never been so fond of artwiz fonts, but naturally, unless you want to hack the theme, it's best to have them, otherwise the theme will have to make something up, and that usually doesn't look so good. For GTK apps, you can install gtk-chtheme, which will allow you to change the font for the menus and whatnot in GTK-based programs (alternatively, if you have GNOME installed, you could use GNOME itself to do so, and run gnome-settings-daemon when you start fluxbox, but a lot of people don't like this solution). Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a few invitations for GMAIL accounts if anyone would like one please send me an email off line. Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4XGglJFYJP/fwTsRAhoXAJ0Z13wC/Fxq0y+VJIcg7vcQG/inSACfWL+O f0ZLFn9F+8/I92U4JnNB3GI= =oDBu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg locks up
With the developers depriceating xfree86 I am trying to get one computer running xorg and having difficulty. Everyone says you can use the exact same configuration file as xfree86 just rename it xorg.conf. Well I emerge xorg and renamed the file and when I start the xserver all I get is a bunch of colored lines and no amount of mouse movement or key punches get anything to happen. The only way top get out is to kill the computer and try again. This was the reason why I ended up installing xfree in the first place a couple of months ago because xorg won't work on this computer. Does any one have any idea what i can do to fix this. emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686) = System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu COMPILER= CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY= SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X acl apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 java jpeg kde libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype usb wifi xml2 xmms xv zlib Also I have attached the xorg.conf file. Does anybody have an idea how to fix this problem. Kirby Walborn xorg.conf Description: Binary data -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imap client recommendations
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:07:55 +0100, Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zap At least I found one plugin for coloring different quote levels, which thunderbird isn't (or wasn't?) able to do. It both was and is able to do that. If you're talking about the extension I think you're talking about, then all it does is merely handling the configuration of some lines in one of the JavaScript configuration files. Probably user.js. I think I did it manually back with 0.7... like I've manually inserted the X-FOAF header into my primary profile. ;) Thunderbird is really more configurable than it seems right off the bat, you just have to get more into the inner workings, as well as knowing where to look... ;) -- Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge groff failure.
Hi, I am trying to emerge groff-1.19.1-r2 and got this error: !!! Error: sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 86, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) And I didn't notice any error during the compilation. Is there anyone on this list that ran into similar problems? Is the a solution to this? TIA -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: 1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 defaultlfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afmsencodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus 2) I'm emerging gtk-chtheme, does this work better than kcontrol - fonts section? 3) I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk configuration... Thank you for your help. Fabrizio On Sunday 09 January 2005 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote: Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Hi all! Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment: http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel. It seems to me that fonts aren't rendered very well, especially in web browsers (both Mozilla Firefoz and Konqueror). Does anyone have some hints to help me getting font better rendered? Thank you. Fabrizio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My first suggestion would be to use *real* fonts (no offence intended). Those serif, sans-serif and monospace you've got listed imo render the worst of all the possible fonts you could have installed. If you don't have any real fonts installed, check out the bitstream-vera, msfonts, and many other font packages available in Portage, and then set your browser to use them to render web pages. Now, this won't help with the menus and all, because that is set by gtk, and your fluxbox desktop fonts are usually set by the theme, iirc. A lot of them (fluxbox themes) like you to have the artwiz fonts installed. I've never been so fond of artwiz fonts, but naturally, unless you want to hack the theme, it's best to have them, otherwise the theme will have to make something up, and that usually doesn't look so good. For GTK apps, you can install gtk-chtheme, which will allow you to change the font for the menus and whatnot in GTK-based programs (alternatively, if you have GNOME installed, you could use GNOME itself to do so, and run gnome-settings-daemon when you start fluxbox, but a lot of people don't like this solution). Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
snip The easiest way I can think of is using AUX_GET.py. I can't remember if it came with portage, or if genone gave it to me. Anyway, here it is. Now if you want something out of ebuilds just do aux_get.py DEPEND PACKAGE and it will go into the Database and fetch it. The down side is it used the portage database instead of the ebuilds themselves, so it's kinda slow ;) thanks, nice little piece of software ! ciao francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search
snip Can't you simply use qpkg -q dev-db/mysql ? it query the installed packages, maybe qpkg -U ? in the meantime aug_get.py given from Alec Warner has worked. thanks, francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk configuration... Try running /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon from a terminal -- it'll probably solve the ugly fonts problem. If not, change the fonts using the fonts applet in the Gnome control center -- KDE control center's font applet is only for QT/KDE apps, while Gnome's will work for all GTK apps, as long as gnome-settings-daemon is running. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: THE .muttrc color definition set
* On Jan 8 13:43, Grant thusly jotted: I just plugged in a set of color definitions for the .muttrc file from the web, and it sure is cool. Can anyone point me toward their favorite? See below. Tweaked over the course of the last year or so :) Tom [~] cat .mutt/colors color header magenta default '^(Date|Posted):' color header yellow default '^(From|Reply-To|Organization|User-Agent):' color header cyandefault '^(To|Cc|Delivered-To|X-Original-To):' color header green default '^(Subject):' color header green default '^(Mailing-List|List|X-ML)' color header bluedefault '^(Message-ID|References|In-Reply-To):' color header red default '^(X-Bogosity|X-Spam|X-PerlMx-Spam)' color hdrdefault brightblack default color index brightgreen default ~N color treebrightyellowdefault color quoted yellow default color quoted1 green default color quoted2 magenta default color quoted3 bluedefault color bodycyandefault ((ftp|http|https)://|news:)[^ )\\t]+ color bodycyandefault [EMAIL PROTECTED] color normal white default color error green default color indicator white red color signature brightblue default color status white blue color tilde bluedefault pgpCZbce7wWyT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
What do u mean, James... that as long as I don't have any gnome package installed I can't make my fonts better? And if so, is there a way to have the gnome-settings-daemon installed with the minimum number of gnome packages installed? Or better, is there some equivalent daemon for kde? I've run the gtk-chtheme but I've found it not-helping... Thank u anyway. I've appreciated..but still ugly fonts... On Sunday 09 January 2005 20:19, James Hiscock wrote: I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk configuration... Try running /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon from a terminal -- it'll probably solve the ugly fonts problem. If not, change the fonts using the fonts applet in the Gnome control center -- KDE control center's font applet is only for QT/KDE apps, while Gnome's will work for all GTK apps, as long as gnome-settings-daemon is running. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Hi, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment: http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel. It seems to me that fonts aren't rendered very well, especially in web browsers (both Mozilla Firefoz and Konqueror). From another of your posts, it looks like you have the ttf-bitstream-vera fonts installed. Place the following file at /etc/fonts/local.conf : www.gnome.org/fonts/local.conf Add the following line towards the top: dir/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/dir Run: fc-cache -fv Restart X. Hopefully you'll then have nicer looking default fonts for sans/sans-serif/etc. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gdm without gconf
Hi! I would like to build use gdm as my display manager but I don't want to install gconf (nor scrollkeeper,orbit,bonobo,portmap,gnome-vfs,fam, anything gnome-related). Is this possible? Would emerge --nodeps gdm work? Also, there are quite a few gnome applications that I would like to use, i.e. I would like to have gnome-base installed without installing above named packages (irritations :-). Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The Gimp jpeg HELP
I made it at last! Many thanks Vittorio Alle 14:02, domenica 9 gennaio 2005, Heinz Sporn ha scritto: Well, then good luck then. ;-) Vittorio schrieb: Heinz: Well, I am sorry Vittorio but I am not sure if you understand the concept of the magic USE flag right. Apparently I didn't understand that! Let me put it this way: 1. Look into your /etc/make.conf 2. Check if the line starting with USE= contains the string jpeg I now have a richer USE line in make.conf USE=-java -gnome jpeg tiff gimpprint 3. Remove all occurences of -jpeg in that file 4. Run an emerge -pvV gimp 5. Does it now come up with +jpeg or -jpeg ??? With +jpeg* 6. And please forget that echo $USE stuff ;-) Wrongly I had put the above USE line in a file under /etc/env.d to be executed as an environmental variable. My mistake! Thanks for shedding a light on it!! Tomorrow I'll have another compilation of the Gimp. Vittorio schrieb: Perhaps I'm somewhat slow or I don't understand how to use emerge correctly but ... as I stated my USE : - # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint - *** contains *** the jpeg (and tiff and gimpprint) flag. Therefore, in a nutshell, I don't understand where I am wrong according to you. Ciao Vittorio Alle 19:52, sabato 8 gennaio 2005, Heinz Sporn ha scritto: Again: perform an emerge -pvV gimp It should come up with something like: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.0.4 +aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc gimpprint* +jpeg +mmx* -mng* +png +python +sse* -svg* +tiff -wmf* Notice the +jpeg flag. If you have -jpeg then run USE=jpeg emerge gimp exactly as stated here. Vittorio schrieb: I didn't succeed! I had a go with: # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint # emerge unmerge gimp To be on the safe side!!! # emerge -b gimp BUT I'm still unable to open a jpg file (of the hundreds I used to work with!!) under the Gimp (unknown file)! Please help Vittorio Alle 19:31, venerdì 7 gennaio 2005, Heinz Sporn ha scritto: Look at the output of emerge -pvV gimp. You'll notice that it uses the jpeg flag. So either perform USE=jpeg emerge gimp or add jpeg to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf and emerge Gimp again. Vittorio schrieb: Dear All, I compiled gimp 2.0.4 from the latest stage1 but it doesn't support jpeg files requiring an extra library. Therefore I've just compiled the media-libs/jpeg library from stage1 but gimp is still unable to open jpeg files. What else should I compile? Thanks Vittorio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcdroast GDK_PIXBUF problems
The solution came out of the blue from the solution of another problem I had been having with kdework. I had to etc-update opengl and then recompile everything. And now it works! Ciao Vittorio Alle 13:55, sabato 8 gennaio 2005, Vittorio ha scritto: I'm emerging xcdroast from the latest stage1 with the following USE # echo $USE -java -gnome kde dvd cdr alsa jpeg tiff jpeg tiff gimpprint the configuration of xcdroast fails because of a missing GDK_PIXBUF (see the extract below). What should I do? Ciao Vittorio ... . checking for unsetenv... yes checking for setreuid... yes checking for seteuid... yes checking for glib-config... /usr/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version = 1.2.3... yes checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version = 1.2.3... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... no checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version = 0.8.0... no *** The gdk-pixbuf-config script installed by GDK_PIXBUF could not be found *** If GDK_PIXBUF was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GDK_PIXBUF_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gdk-pixbuf-config. configure: error: Test for gdk_pixbuf failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. !!! ERROR: app-cdr/xcdroast-0.98_alpha15-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:56:04 +0100, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an ATI card the downgrade to Xorg 6.7 would be clear. The ati-drivers package simply depends on Xorg 6.7. It is said ATI will deliver a set of drivers supporting Xorg 6.8 (and DRI) this month. In the meantime you could either go with 6.7 or re-emerge 6.8 but forget DRI for the moment (and yes it is working). That's interesting, I suppose, but I have no idea how to use or not use DRI. I've just been using whatever is here. Where do I get an education? 291 config files: how long didn't you update your machine? About a week. That's all. But it included the XFree - xorg switchover, and a major KDE overhaul as well. Most of the 291 were X-related. ++ kevin Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. The oddities: For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very time-consuming. For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:09:38 +0100, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 07:40, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. The oddities: For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very time-consuming. If you sync your system once in a quarter you can expect strange behavior ;-) Seriously: it can depend on the fact that the upgrade/update touched portage and/or profiles. This is not called for. I held off sync for about 2 weeks. Later you talk about planning large emerges for when you can deal with them. Make up your mind. For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that. ++ kevin I put a signature as comment in every /etc/ file I edit, so it is easier to sort out which config files deserve _more_ attention. I've been doing this for years, long before I ever heard of Gentoo. IMHO, anyway you should better - sync your system more often or - plan big builds when you have time to look them after. Again, is 2 weeks often enough for you? If not, your second option doesn't make much sense. Again IMHO ten minutes saved in a blind etc-update with a -3 or -5 switch don't worth hours trying to solve strange issues, and potentially rock solid system crawling... Tell me how you examine 300 unfamiliar diffs in ten minutes. Ten hours should do it, but I'd have a hard time staying focused. No noticeable problems so far. I think all the -5's related to config files I have never touched, since there are precious few that I ever do. Printing, networking, fstab, ssh, security programs, and X86Config; not much else. Dispatch-conf may be better suited to your likings, tough... Why? I'm not complaining about etc-update, or at least not aware of it if I am. ++ kevin Ciao Francesco -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Web calendar with overlay feature
Thanks for the advice. Forgive my ignorance (I'm new to these PIM tools like calendars - I've used scraps of paper up 'till now :-), but when you say you use other tools (mozilla/firefox/thunderbird calendar extension) to edit it, does that have to happen on the same machine on which your calendar resides, or can it be done remotely? Thanks, Michael On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, YoYo Siska wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along these lines, can anyone recommend a gentoo-friendly web calendar, which would allow a small group of people to each have their own calendar, and to optionally overlay one or more calendar on top of another? For instance, my wife and I would maintain separate calendars, but if I were trying to schedule an event with her, I might overlay hers on mine to seen when we both were free. Thanks, Michael phpicalendar? iirc it's not in portage, but it instalation involvest just extracting it somewhere (plus setting .htacces maybe) it works with ical files, either local, or on a webdav server, can display multiple ical files together. But i don't know how goot is it at editing, because I use it just to display stuf and use mozilla/firefox/thunderbird calendar extension to edit it... -- _ YoYo () Siska === http://www.ksp.sk/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]: Looking for a CMS..
Hi! I'm looking for a good CMS, that i can run on my Gentoo machine and on the FreeBSD-Server, where i don't have a root-account. It doesn't have to exist in portage, i could write an ebuild. The CMS should have: A _very_ good gallery, with automatic thumbnail-creating A small blog-system my configuration looks like this: safe_mode=off, GD2 installed php4.3, mysql4.0. I can't use gallery.sf.net, it doesn't work on the server. Thanks for advices. Greetings Daniel -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
What do u mean, James... that as long as I don't have any gnome package installed I can't make my fonts better? Not quite -- it's just a whole heck of a lot easier to deal with if you've got bits of Gnome installed so you can easily configure your GTK apps to look prettier than they do by default. gnome-settings-daemon is provided by the gnome-base/control-center package. It's got a ton of dependencies, though, so it's probably not going to solve your problem easily (I'm assuming that you're using KDE exclusively, and not Gnome)... And if so, is there a way to have the gnome-settings-daemon installed with the minimum number of gnome packages installed? Dunno. Best you can do is try emerge -av control-center and see just how much you're going to have to install. Or better, is there some equivalent daemon for kde? I've got a GTK Styles and Fonts applet in my KDE Control Center, but I'm not sure what package I installed to get it (if any - might be standard in the current KDE releases)... that should do what you want it to do, I think... No need for a daemon for KDE, AFAIK. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?
I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers. I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do to stop it? ++ kevin -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
Heinz Sporn wrote: Had the same problem yesterday. The answer was simple: the system was not able to resolve it's own hostname XY via DNS (understandable). After putting it into /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localname XY everything went fine. Heinz, You hit it on the button, it was a /etc/hosts issue alright! Thanks! What kept confusing me was the fact that my workstations functioned perfectly well while the webserver didn't. It seems that I was mistaken to assume that the installation would treat workstations served by my router's DHCP service in this way exactly the same as one assigned a static ip with port forwarding. Very wrong. Hopefully this experience will help someone else to avoid this pitfall. We live and learn. I would like to thank everyone here that tried to provide me with help for this problem. I'm grateful for your time and expertise. Very best regards. jlowell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: 1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 defaultlfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afmsencodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in your screenshot, right? This should improve the rendering of the webpages themselves, which is what this setting controls. We are talking about two separate issues, you know-- the font used to render the web page display (which is controlled by Firefox itself), and the fonts used to render the application window (which is controlled by the window manager's governing library, meaning GTK or QT). Firefox is a GTK2 application. 2) I'm emerging gtk-chtheme, does this work better than kcontrol - fonts section? Yes, because Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird are GTK apps, not KDE/QT apps-- so kcontrol has no control by default over what fonts they use to display their windows unless you get the gtk-qt engine from either gnome-look.org or kde-look.org, and/or check the little checkbox that says allow non-KDE apps to use my KDE settings in KControl (which you should also do). That generally works, but not for all GTK apps (especially GTK1 apps). gtk-chtheme allows you to set the fonts and theme for these apps independently, although it may mean that you might need to trawl around gnome-look.org to find some themes that nearly match your (there are some in Portage). Why are we even talking about KDE if you use fluxbox? KControl isn't available in fluxbox any more than it is in GNOME. 3) I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of gtk configuration... Yes, it is-- because since you do not use GNOME, you have no real GTK configuration, and the defaults used in the absence of active configuration look like junk, generally. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:34 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers. They are correct. In the ebuild for ati-drivers-3.14.6 is this depend: DEPEND=|| ( x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99 =x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 ) I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do to stop it? ati-drivers will not stop xorg 6.8 from installing. It will pull it back to 6.7 on the next pass though. Presumably, ati-drivers will offer a version at some point that will support xorg 6.8, so it won't flip-flop *forever*. You have a few choices, including: 1. remove ati-drivers and stay with xorg 6.8. wait for a new ati-drivers that works with 6.8 to reinstall it. 2. add =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8 to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the 6.8 upgrade from happening, and remove it once a newer ati-drivers is available. -- Scott Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and cdrecorder permissions
On Sunday 09 January 2005 19:42, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 02:27, Makurin Roman wrote: Hi All! I`ve got a problem with udev and my cdrecorder permisions. Cdrecorder is /dev/hdd, in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions I found these lines: sr*:root:cdrom:660 scd*:root:cdrom:660 pcd*:root:cdrom:0660 cdrom*:root:cdrom:0660 dvd:root:cdrom:0660 rdvd:root:cdrom:0660 cdroms/*:root:cdrom:0660 ls -l /dev/hdd: brw-rw 1 root root 22, 64 Jan 8 18:26 /dev/hdd ls -l /dev/cdroms/* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 8 18:26 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - ../hdd Since /dev/hdd is not accessible for cdrom group ordinary users can`t write to it. How can I fix this problem ? Make a text file 10-local.permissions in /etc/udev/permissions.d with this line in it: hdd:root:cdrom:0660 Thanks in advance. -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpOYDszMipdg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:54:21 +0100, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: 1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 defaultlfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afmsencodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in your screenshot, right? Holly, Wrong for me. I haven't follow this thread so maybe I'm missing something, but I've had some font problems in the last few days since I threw Open Office on this machine. It seems to have changed the fonts Mozilla is using. In my case I have some fonts on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:57:01 -0700, Scott Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:34 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers. They are correct. In the ebuild for ati-drivers-3.14.6 is this depend: DEPEND=|| ( x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99 =x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 ) I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do to stop it? ati-drivers will not stop xorg 6.8 from installing. It will pull it back to 6.7 on the next pass though. Presumably, ati-drivers will offer a version at some point that will support xorg 6.8, so it won't flip-flop *forever*. You have a few choices, including: 1. remove ati-drivers and stay with xorg 6.8. wait for a new ati-drivers that works with 6.8 to reinstall it. 2. add =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8 to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the 6.8 upgrade from happening, and remove it once a newer ati-drivers is available. This makes perfect sense, but it illuminates my ignorance of things video. How do I learn enough to make an intelligent choice between the two options? That is: 1) What do I give up by dropping ati-drivers? 2) What do I gain by going with 6.8? The usual 5-word explanations I get on this list is not informative (for me), because they usually assume I know a great deal more than I seem to actually know. ++ kevin -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg locks up
Sarpy Sam wrote: With the developers depriceating xfree86 I am trying to get one computer running xorg and having difficulty. Everyone says you can use the exact same configuration file as xfree86 just rename it xorg.conf. Well I emerge xorg and renamed the file and when I start the xserver all I get is a bunch of colored lines and no amount of mouse movement or key punches get anything to happen. The only way top get out is to kill the computer and try again. This was the reason why I ended up installing xfree in the first place a couple of months ago because xorg won't work on this computer. Does any one have any idea what i can do to fix this. A number of people have reported problems with i810 and xorg-6.8.x IIRC, the solution was to downgrade to version 6.7.0. I use a computer at work that has this chipset, and while it works with some of the time, it often crashes and hangs with xorg-6.8.x. For me, it always crashes when DRI is enabled. There is also a wealth of information in the forums regarding this chipset. Hope this helps. --Brent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder
Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers. I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do to stop it? ++ kevin Yes, to stop it, put =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until such time as the conflict between the ati-drivers and X.org 6.8 is resolved (supposed to be in the next release, expected within days). The issue is that the ATI binary drivers do not work with X.org 6.8, so if you install them, X.org will downgrade to a version that does work with them. However, the X.org ebuild does not check as to whether you have ati-drivers installed, so it will upgrade on the next sync, unless you mask the upgrade. In other words, ati-drivers blocks X.org 6.8, but X.org 6.8 is not blocked by the pre-existence of ati-drivers on the system (though if you had to reinstall ati-drivers, xorg would downgrade again). Anyway, the easiest thing to do is just mask the upper versions of X.org yourself if you want to keep the ati-driver package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg release oscillating between 6.7 and 6.8?
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:12:26PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 1) What do I give up by dropping ati-drivers? 2) What do I gain by going with 6.8? The usual 5-word explanations I get on this list is not informative (for me), because they usually assume I know a great deal more than I seem to actually know. I've never used the binary ATI drivers, but I am familiar with the binary nvidia drivers. I know in that case, there is really not too much difference, except that the NVIDIA binary drivers have 3D support, and the open-source driver doesn't. I suspect (but do not know) that there is a similar situation with the ATI drivers. So, if you don't play any 3D games, there's a good chance you're better off with the open-sounce drivers. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Mark Knecht wrote: In my case I have some fonts on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. Then you need to add the font paths to fontconfig file and update the font cache. See my earlier post in this thread. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:54:21 +0100, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: 1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 defaultlfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afmsencodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in your screenshot, right? Holly, Wrong for me. I haven't follow this thread so maybe I'm missing something, but I've had some font problems in the last few days since I threw Open Office on this machine. It seems to have changed the fonts Mozilla is using. In my case I have some fonts on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. - Mark Are you talking about OOo or Mozilla? Hopefully Mozilla, because I don't have OOo on my system atm. Plus, I use Firefox, but it's not that different. If you look at the Firefox font config screen, the first thing it asks you is what encoding (Western). Then it asks you what *kind* of font you want to use as your Proportional font by default: serif or sans-serif. These are your choices in variable-width font types; fixed-width fonts are generally only used in mail, or called for by the webpage itself, so you don't get this as an option, since no one really wants to read a webpage in Courier 10. Then there are three separate dropdown menus that ask you which *specific* font you want to use for your serif font, your sans-serif font, and your monospace font. So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). As far as I know, Mozilla has these settings (or very similar ones) as well; what OOo has to do with it, I don't know, but I'm almost certain that you can change the default display font there as well, if necessary. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb hotplug problems
I recently moved to kernel 2.6.9 compiling a new system from scratch every in my all my gentoo linux notebook. Now I'm sure I enabled the usb stuff in the kernel and compiled and installed hotplug according to the instructions in the handbook. The weird fact is that, even though the usbfs filesystem is mounted according to tle log file, when I insert a usb device nothing seems to happen and no sign of a new usb device is detected in messages.log. The directory /proc/bus/usb is completely empty. Besides, while hotplug under the 2.4 kernel was quite talkative, now if I issue /etc/init.d/hotplug restart it stops and starts without saying anything but only OKs. At the same time /etc/init.d/hotplug status gives started. WShat's going on and what should I do? Vittorio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:31:47 +0100, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:54:21 +0100, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: 1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts under /usr/share/fonts ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls 100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc ttf-bitstream-vera 75dpi Type1 defaultlfp-fix ms-truetype unifont CID afmsencodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in your screenshot, right? Holly, Wrong for me. I haven't follow this thread so maybe I'm missing something, but I've had some font problems in the last few days since I threw Open Office on this machine. It seems to have changed the fonts Mozilla is using. In my case I have some fonts on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. - Mark Are you talking about OOo or Mozilla? Hopefully Mozilla, because I don't have OOo on my system atm. Plus, I use Firefox, but it's not that different. If you look at the Firefox font config screen, the first thing it asks you is what encoding (Western). Then it asks you what *kind* of font you want to use as your Proportional font by default: serif or sans-serif. These are your choices in variable-width font types; fixed-width fonts are generally only used in mail, or called for by the webpage itself, so you don't get this as an option, since no one really wants to read a webpage in Courier 10. Then there are three separate dropdown menus that ask you which *specific* font you want to use for your serif font, your sans-serif font, and your monospace font. So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). As far as I know, Mozilla has these settings (or very similar ones) as well; what OOo has to do with it, I don't know, but I'm almost certain that you can change the default display font there as well, if necessary. Holly Thanks Holly. This was the first good explanation I've seen on how to actually make this work. I appreciate it greatly. I'm now able to make changes and they actually show up. Stupid me for not checking all the drop down boxes. Silly mozilla.org for not making this jsut a bit clearer. (Or stupid me again!) Anyway, thanks. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? | Try using the '-C directory' option: $ tar -xzf /path/to/archive.tar.gz -C /where/to/unpack Hope that helps! - -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. - --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): ~ E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from ~ pgp.mit.edu's public key server. - --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB4bYAII+3MhCdvs4RAtv3AJ9yBaYK1Kb6i0RR832k2pzzeIMnQQCgr+xh 1iLCNVxN7JfU13RlUq+v63k= =u4AC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder
Joseph wrote: Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? tar -xvf yourfile.tgz -C /your/folder -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb hotplug problems
WShat's going on and what should I do? The 2.6 series are more supportive concerning USB, but also more precisely. So, my hub working very well on 2.4 was simply trash with 2.6. If you plug in your device to a hub, try it pluggin to the root hub directly instead. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Holly Bostick wrote: So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). I don't think it exactly works like this. If a web page specifically uses font family Arial then Arial will be used, if present, no matter what your font settings are. (This is of course assuming that you don't have the Always use my fonts box ticked.) If no font is specified by the website, it uses whatever you have chosen for your Proportional font (which as you point out is a pointer to one of the other choices). I don't think it is used much, but I think using font family sans, sans-serif, etc, is encouraged on websites, and if a website was to specify this, then the font you have chosen in that dialog would be substituted in. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg locks up
A number of people have reported problems with i810 and xorg-6.8.x IIRC, the solution was to downgrade to version 6.7.0. I use a computer at work that has this chipset, and while it works with some of the time, it often crashes and hangs with xorg-6.8.x. For me, it always crashes when DRI is enabled. There is also a wealth of information in the forums regarding this chipset. Hope this helps. I will give it a try a report back when able. Kirby Walborn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cloning servers and preventing genetic drift
I have created a gentoo server (A) that I wish to clone to to other servers ( B and C ) with minor differences in their setup. Over time I want to ensure that the three systems remain synchronized. Is there any easy way to do this? -- Dennis Allison * Computer Systems Laboratory * Gates 227 * Stanford University * Stanford CA 94305 * (650) 723-9213 * (650) 723-0033 fax * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 14:53 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? | Try using the '-C directory' option: $ tar -xzf /path/to/archive.tar.gz -C /where/to/unpack Hope that helps! This is like redirecting the content of the archive to specific folder. What I wanted to do is to suppress/overwrite the extracted directory name to my own name. Example if I do: $ tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C my_folder I get: /my_folder/archive What I wanted to change is the name of the original folder to different one; example from: archive to archive-temp to the content would not generate archive but archive-temp archive-temp/ Though I'm not sure it this can be done. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Daniel Drake wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). I don't think it exactly works like this. If a web page specifically uses font family Arial then Arial will be used, if present, no matter what your font settings are. (This is of course assuming that you don't have the Always use my fonts box ticked.) Well, that's kind of what I said, but I was trying to keep it relatively simple. If a web page specifically uses a font family, that is not really vastly different from embedding a specific font (since you may not actually have Arial, but a bunch of aliases aliasing Arial to Helvetica, in which case you'd see Helvetica). In any case, this is all pretty shoddy HTML coding in any case, and I didn't see so much need to discuss the intricacies of shoddy coding in a general explanation of the Mozilla/Firefox configuration dialog and what the various options were actually meant to effect. If no font is specified by the website, it uses whatever you have chosen for your Proportional font (which as you point out is a pointer to one of the other choices). Which is as it should be, imo. I've been to enough websites that actually offered a font download so you could see the page as it was intended (assuming I care about the artistic-ness of it all), and I find that kind of thing really annoying-- as I do embedded fonts in email. Not only does this behaviour take away my choice, and eat up my hard drive space, but it may even be a problem-- if I'm visually disabled, I may not even be able to read your cute little font (and sometimes even when I'm not-- what some people find readable truly eludes me at times). In any case, I'm interested in the information, not the creative vision, and the best way to be sure that the information is readable for me (at this very literal level, nothing said about general site/page design), is to let me decide what font is used to display the page, since I know what font and size I find most comfortable to read, and the site creator does not. So why should that person get to decide? (They shouldn't, and they shouldn't code to force that decision on me.) I don't think it is used much, but I think using font family sans, sans-serif, etc, is encouraged on websites, and if a website was to specify this, then the font you have chosen in that dialog would be substituted in. Well, that's getting into CSS stylesheets, which are used quite a lot, and is *really* not the subject of this discussion ;-) . Holly Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tar xzf to different folder
Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 14:53 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? | Try using the '-C directory' option: $ tar -xzf /path/to/archive.tar.gz -C /where/to/unpack Hope that helps! This is like redirecting the content of the archive to specific folder. What I wanted to do is to suppress/overwrite the extracted directory name to my own name. Example if I do: $ tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C my_folder I get: /my_folder/archive What I wanted to change is the name of the original folder to different one; example from: archive to archive-temp to the content would not generate archive but archive-temp archive-temp/ Though I'm not sure it this can be done. I dont think it's possible unless you are in a very special case. If you have a number of dirs which have one and only one child. the list of your dir should be something like: aa aa/bb aa/bb/cc aa/bb/cc/file1 aa/bb/cc/file2 aa/bb/ccc aa/bb/ccc/file3 aa/bb/ccc/file4 mkdir aaa/bbb tar -xvf your_arc.tar.gz --strip-components=2 -C aaa/bbb/ good luck ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] off the wall question
i was pondering some different ideas about my laptop, i really would like to get rid of windows, or at least setup vmware with windows if i need it, and get rid of the dual boot thing, but i have alot of stuff i cannot loose/reinstall so my question is this, is it possible to copy over my windows partition into a vmware session? kinda like coping all the files of one harddrive to another, at most you might have to do an over lay of the OS but all the programs would still be installed etc. anyone had any experience in this? it was just a thought, i doubt it can be done, but you never know for sure unless you ask. thanks for the input nick -- Nick Smith a.k.a. Computer Nick Web - http://www.computernick.com Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] vmware setup
im tring to setup vmware on my gentoo installation, and its asking me where my init files are rc0.d through rc6.d, gentoo doesnt really have anything like that so what do you do in this case? /etc/init.d/? any help would be appreciated. thanks nick -- Nick Smith a.k.a. Computer Nick Web - http://www.computernick.com Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:23:36 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im tring to setup vmware on my gentoo installation, The easiest way to do this is through gentoo's package management - simply 'emerge -a vmware-workstation' and its asking me where my init files are rc0.d through rc6.d, gentoo doesnt really have anything like that so what do you do in this case? /etc/init.d/? any help would be appreciated. The gentoo ebuild takes care of this. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup
quote who=Calvin Walton On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:23:36 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im tring to setup vmware on my gentoo installation, The easiest way to do this is through gentoo's package management - simply 'emerge -a vmware-workstation' and its asking me where my init files are rc0.d through rc6.d, gentoo doesnt really have anything like that so what do you do in this case? /etc/init.d/? any help would be appreciated. The gentoo ebuild takes care of this. i didnt think vmware was free? what is the version in portage? demoware or something? -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Well, guys, thank U all for the help. I've followed all your suggestions by now and surely learnt something more; by now gnome-settings-daemon is running, gtk-chtheme has been *theming* but still my fonts look ugly...maybe less ugly than before...maybe my eyes haven't been upgraded yet (!) I should follow my wife's two hours ago advice and go to bed by now. I'll try again tomorrow. Bye all! On Sunday 09 January 2005 17:26, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Hi all! Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment: http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel. It seems to me that fonts aren't rendered very well, especially in web browsers (both Mozilla Firefoz and Konqueror). Does anyone have some hints to help me getting font better rendered? Thank you. Fabrizio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imap client recommendations
* On Sunday 09 January 2005 19:59, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: Thunderbird is really more configurable than it seems right off the bat, you just have to get more into the inner workings, as well as knowing where to look... ;) But we are still talking about thunderbird as a MUA with a GUI? Although I found out how to set some things in prefs.js, I'd always prefer mutt if I looked for textfile configurable MUA - mutt's documentation is much better in this case. ;-) Regards, Jens -- Your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick. -- Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
James Hiscock wrote: I've got a GTK Styles and Fonts applet in my KDE Control Center, but I'm not sure what package I installed to get it (if any - might be standard in the current KDE releases)... that should do what you want it to do, I think... No need for a daemon for KDE, AFAIK. This is because of the gtk-qt-engines package. -- Kathy Wills + + Genealogy Web Site: http://www.brannanorwills.com + + + + -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] off the wall question
Nick Smith wrote: i was pondering some different ideas about my laptop, i really would like to get rid of windows, or at least setup vmware with windows if i need it, and get rid of the dual boot thing, but i have alot of stuff i cannot loose/reinstall so my question is this, is it possible to copy over my windows partition into a vmware session? kinda like coping all the files of one harddrive to another, at most you might have to do an over lay of the OS but all the programs would still be installed etc. anyone had any experience in this? it was just a thought, i doubt it can be done, but you never know for sure unless you ask. thanks for the input nick done, few years ago with a win98, yes it's possible, it's the same as choose your hd and put it on another pc (new motherboard, nic, etc...) With windows this it's *not* an easy task. You need to configure wmware to access directly say /dev/hdaX supposing that /dev/hdaX is the partition currently used by windows. Then you can make vmware working on a snapshot, that is leave the original untouched, write the diffs elsewhere. safer slower. First time you boot unconfigure all that you can, reboot and leave windows reconfigure all (I'm laughing sorry). ciao francesco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware setup
quote who=Calvin Walton On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:23:36 -0500 (EST), Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im tring to setup vmware on my gentoo installation, The easiest way to do this is through gentoo's package management - simply 'emerge -a vmware-workstation' well i used your directions, and i get an error that tells me to reconfigure again, and when i do i get this: Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware: line 938: [: -: integer expression expected Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 done SMB share server on /dev/vmnet1 done SMB name server on /dev/vmnet1 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 done DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 done NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 done Virtual ethernet failed Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation Execution aborted. and this in the syslog: Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: All rights reserved. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Please contribute if you find this software useful. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 12341 (vmnet-netifup) Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: All rights reserved. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Please contribute if you find this software useful. Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Configured subnet: 172.16.147.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Setting vmnet-dhcp IP address: 172.16.147.254 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 12340 (vmnet-dhcpd) Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Recving on VNet/vmnet1/172.16.147.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Sending on VNet/vmnet1/172.16.147.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:15:48, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Configured subnet: 172.16.9.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Setting vmnet-dhcp IP address: 172.16.9.254 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 12352 (vmnet-dhcpd) Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop kernel: /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Recving on VNet/vmnet8/172.16.9.0 Jan 9 16:15:48 laptop vmnet-dhcpd: Sending on VNet/vmnet8/172.16.9.0 Jan 9 16:15:55 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:15:55, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:15:55 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9 16:15:57 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:15:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:15:57 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9 16:15:59 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:15:59, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:15:59 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9 16:16:01 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:16:01, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:16:01 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9 16:16:03 laptop nmbd[7907]: [2005/01/09 16:16:03, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:process_browse_packet(1050) Jan 9 16:16:03 laptop nmbd[7907]: process_browse_packet: Discarding datagram from IP 172.16.147.1. Source name LAPTOP00 is one of our names ! Jan 9
[gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?
Hello, Is there any package in the portage which can automatically connect to certain server, get the exact time and automatically adjust the time of my machine? It seems my machine always behind the current time. Thanks! MF -- Life sucks, but we can change it. pgpUukoZiaRA2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?
ntp? On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 22:31 -0500, myang wrote: Hello, Is there any package in the portage which can automatically connect to certain server, get the exact time and automatically adjust the time of my machine? It seems my machine always behind the current time. Thanks! MF -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?
emerge ntp - the man ntp. On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, myang wrote: Hello, Is there any package in the portage which can automatically connect to certain server, get the exact time and automatically adjust the time of my machine? It seems my machine always behind the current time. Thanks! MF -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to keep up the time?
yes. It's exactly what I am looking for. Thank you! On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:50:11PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: ntp? On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 22:31 -0500, myang wrote: Hello, Is there any package in the portage which can automatically connect to certain server, get the exact time and automatically adjust the time of my machine? It seems my machine always behind the current time. Thanks! MF -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Life sucks, but we can change it. pgpeLw3iAYkjJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] off the wall question
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:47:14PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote: this, is it possible to copy over my windows partition into a vmware session? kinda like coping all the files of one harddrive Two ways off the top of the head: 1. Configure VMware to use your MS hard drive's partition directly. That is described in the VMware docs, with several caveats if memory serves (mostly about continuing to dual boot). 2. Mount your MS partition in Linux. Then set up file sharing between VMware and Linux (which is a good idea to do anyway). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gdm xfce4
Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default session? Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Web calendar with overlay feature
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, YoYo Siska wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along these lines, can anyone recommend a gentoo-friendly web calendar, which would allow a small group of people to each have their own calendar, and to optionally overlay one or more calendar on top of another? For instance, my wife and I would maintain separate calendars, but if I were trying to schedule an event with her, I might overlay hers on mine to seen when we both were free. Thanks, Michael phpicalendar? iirc it's not in portage, but it instalation involvest just extracting it somewhere (plus setting .htacces maybe) it works with ical files, either local, or on a webdav server, can display multiple ical files together. But i don't know how goot is it at editing, because I use it just to display stuf and use mozilla/firefox/thunderbird calendar extension to edit it... Hi YoYo, Thanks for the tip. I've been researching the options you suggest and am learning a lot. I guess I need to set up a webdav server, to serve my calendars to remote clients (including myself). I gather too that Apache can do webdav. Can anyone point me at a howto or other tips for gentoo + apache + webdav Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
