[gentoo-user] OpenOffice + german build

2003-02-26 Thread Christian Wiese
Hi everyone, is there a way to build a localized version (in my case german) of OpenOffice using the standard ebuild? Thank you, Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Thank you

2003-02-26 Thread Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\)
Title: Message I would like to thank all those people who offered help and sound advice to my question about accessing gentoo.  I had hoped that any group that my son belonged too would show the same generosity of spirit that he had and I was not disappointed.   To those of you who misunder

Re: [gentoo-user] debug use flag?

2003-02-26 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:02, Ian Truelsen wrote: > Would it be possible to implement a debug use flag that could be used > to add debugging options to ebuilds so that one could get a backtrace > without having to manually build from the sources? Already possible. :) DEBU

[gentoo-user] mplayer plays videos twice

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Does anyone else's Mplayer play all videos twice? As far as I can tell, there is not even a setting in Mplayer to do this. Could this be a problem with avifile or some other lib that Mplayer depends on? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Modprobe fails to find 3210S in PIII system

2003-02-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
built a 1.4rc2 system on a PIII dual 933 system. This is an all SCSI system with an Adaptec 3210S raid card and an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card running a RAID 5 array. When I boot it tells me kmod: fialde to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2 kmod: fialde to exec /sbin/modprobe -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages Downgraded??

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
did you have the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS set in your make.conf and then comment it out? This same thing happened to me when I did that. Arlo wrote: I just updated portage and did a web-rsync; rsync. But for some reason a bunch of packages downgraded. Here's a partial list, there are about 90 or so pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages Downgraded??

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Syroid
What gives is you updated Portage, which in turn updated /etc/make.conf, and you probably elected to overwrite your old file with the new shiny one. Try putting back the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag. /tom --On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 18:22:58 -0800 Arlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just updated

[gentoo-user] debug use flag?

2003-02-26 Thread Ian Truelsen
Would it be possible to implement a debug use flag that could be used to add debugging options to ebuilds so that one could get a backtrace without having to manually build from the sources? -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org PGP ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Default page size in openoffice

2003-02-26 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:22 pm, John H wrote: > Does anyone know how to set this? > > It seems to be set at A4, which is a real pain for > this USA user. Invoke the spadmin program (it's in the same directory where you find soffice). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_

Re: [gentoo-user] Default page size in openoffice

2003-02-26 Thread Dave Klipec
John H wrote: Does anyone know how to set this? It seems to be set at A4, which is a real pain for this USA user. At a shell: oopadmin Select your "Generic Printer" - Click Properties. ... It's under the paper tab. This *is* kinda buried, and should be far more intuitive than it is. -- Public key

[gentoo-user] Packages Downgraded??

2003-02-26 Thread Arlo
I just updated portage and did a web-rsync; rsync. But for some reason a bunch of packages downgraded. Here's a partial list, there are about 90 or so packages that did this. [ebuildUD] net-mail/evolution-1.2.1 [1.2.2] [ebuildUD] net-print/foomatic-2.0.0 [2.0.2] [ebuildUD] media-gfx

[gentoo-user] Default page size in openoffice

2003-02-26 Thread John H
Does anyone know how to set this? It seems to be set at A4, which is a real pain for this USA user. -- John H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Feb 26 > Yeah, I did look at the website, and I have to go with "looks dodgy" as well. [...] > > So, why am I writing? I want to make a prediction. The prediction is that, > in Malcolm Gardner Associates' training materials and courses on "Data > protection" there

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused

2003-02-26 Thread Christian Hoenig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > Today, I ran this command: > upstairs root # emerge -up --deep world > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuildU ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.99.902 [4.2.99.4] > [ebuildU ] net-fs/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2 oddly slow

2003-02-26 Thread Maximus
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:22:17 +0100 Johannes Zweng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gabor wrote: > > [Gnome semms to be slow.. ] > > > > > > Are there any general fixes for this sort of thing, or is the ebuild > > > > > > somehow unoptimized? > > > > do you have a nvidia card? > > if you do have,

[gentoo-user] emerge confused

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Today, I ran this command: upstairs root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.99.902 [4.2.99.4] [ebuildU ] net-fs/samba-2.2.8_pre1 [2.2.7a] [ebuildU ] media-libs/libdvdread

[gentoo-user] KOrganizer and Session startup...

2003-02-26 Thread Timothy Grant
Howdy, I've started using and enjoying KOrganizer, however, it appears to exhibit somewhat strange behaviour when started via a saved session. I can start KOrganizer from the task bar with no problem. It starts on it's assigned desktop and loads the default organzier file. If I save my session

[gentoo-user] Funny Keyboard Repeat Rate

2003-02-26 Thread Ryan
I just did a fresh Gentoo 1.4 rc2 install on my desktop PC and I've been having some issues with the keyboard repeat rate and delay. At a framebuffer console, the repeat rate was going really slow, so I put the following in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file: /usr/bin/kbdrate -r 24.0 > /dev/null That

[gentoo-user] phoenix crashes possibly solved

2003-02-26 Thread Henk Abma
Recently gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0 appeared in the list of masked packages. Because my Phoenix kept crashing at least five times a day with a gdk error, I decided to try this new gdk-pixbuf and Phoenix hasn't crashed for two days. So if I were gentoo, I'd mark this version stable Henk, -- [EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] moving mozilla profiles

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Arturo di Gioia wrote: Mail: as for the mail content, I think you can just copy the files. Mozilla should recognize them as folders. This doesn't work. When I start up Mail & News, it wants me to create a new account. I think the settings are kept in the prefs.js. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

[gentoo-user] Boot hangs (at least in vmware)

2003-02-26 Thread Joel Palmius
I've installed a x86 system from scratch using the instructions on the homepage. This I've done in a vmware virtual machine. I've compiled everything. I used the stage1 tarball stage1-x86-1.4_pre20030220.tar.bz2 rather than the one on the 1.4rc2 cd. Everything seems to be working as expected un

[gentoo-user] additional install of old glibc-2.2.5

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Bossy
Hi, I need the glibc-2.2.5 for use with a properitary software that is linked with this old glibc. As I do understand the slot-system of gentoo, for libs it should be possible to emerge the current glibc-2.3.1 and the old glibc-2.2.5 at the same time. Isn't it? I figured out that compiling glib

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread lists
On 26 Feb 2003 06:25, Luke Graham emitted: > Call me nasty but this mail looks dodgy anyway. Take a really close look at > his website and its links. Surely one of his "extensive range of > experienced IT consultants" could help him out? This does seem to be right > in their field after all... and

[gentoo-user] env-update repair

2003-02-26 Thread Denis Shcherbakov
Hi, all, Don't ask me why, but I need to "undo" the results of executing env-update on my gentoo box - is there a way to do this?? I went in to repair something from the CD, and by accident, I used env-update command in the chrooted shell. Now, when I boot up the machine, it has no information

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling additional modules for liveCD?

2003-02-26 Thread Bob Johnson
which modules do you need? On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:01 pm, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > You should probably check the version of the kernel that is used on > liveCD. 'uname -r' should show the kernel version. Also you can see the > version from the boot messages. > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling additional modules for liveCD?

2003-02-26 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
You should probably check the version of the kernel that is used on liveCD. 'uname -r' should show the kernel version. Also you can see the version from the boot messages. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:13:48 -0500 Cedric Veilleux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some modules that a

Re: [gentoo-user] installation problem

2003-02-26 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:18AM -0800, Steve White wrote: > I have installed from a RCl1.4 CDrom on a PentiumIII and have followed all > of the instructions carefully (or so I thought). I have obviously missed > something as now the system will not boot from the hard drive. I get no > grub pro

[gentoo-user] emerge tetex fails

2003-02-26 Thread Christian Bartl
Hi, tried to emerge teTeX-2.0-r1 with Gentoo 1.1a (gcc 2.95.3-r7) and got the following error: - gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/w3c-libwww -DHAVE_CON FIG_H -DHAVE_LIBWWW -DHAVE_WWWLIB_H

[gentoo-user] installation problem

2003-02-26 Thread Steve White
I have installed from a RCl1.4 CDrom on a PentiumIII and have followed all of the instructions carefully (or so I thought). I have obviously missed something as now the system will not boot from the hard drive. I get no grub prompt, nothing but a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. My

[gentoo-user] Warning to hardware purchasers

2003-02-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
I know that this is way off topic and probably belongs on the forum, but I figured that I could reach the maximum # of people this way. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to upgrade one of my computers with a new motherboard and processor. I searched the web for top rated boards at a

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.1.2-r2.ebuild error

2003-02-26 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 3:28 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 2:14 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > > I think (I might be right) that the problem is a lack of end bracket in > > the file. > > Hmm. Just had the same fault on another ebuild* during installation of KDE. > Same soluti

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2 oddly slow

2003-02-26 Thread Johannes Zweng
gabor wrote: [Gnome semms to be slow.. ] > > > > Are there any general fixes for this sort of thing, or is the ebuild > > > > somehow unoptimized? > > do you have a nvidia card? > if you do have, > don't use the newest nvidia-binary driver ( 4191? ) with gnome... > use the 3xyz version. > ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Two questions

2003-02-26 Thread MAL
david mattatall wrote: Ok I generated this list by doing an emerge -ep --deep world and removing all the packages that I had previously finnished compiling. I need to know if there is a way I can turn this into a command I can use to resume where I left off. I believe the latest, (possibly maske

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Harald Arnesen
"Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his > laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able > to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our > business. C

Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.1.2-r2.ebuild error

2003-02-26 Thread Ian Tindale
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 2:14 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: > I think (I might be right) that the problem is a lack of end bracket in the > file. Hmm. Just had the same fault on another ebuild* during installation of KDE. Same solution - fix the missing last closing curly bracket in the file. Is th

[gentoo-user] KDE font installer + antialiasing

2003-02-26 Thread Johnny Andersson
This is a tired old subject, I know... I'm using KDE 3.1. Antialiased fonts always used to work, until now. I used Font Installer to install a new font, and magically antialiasing doesn't work anymore. It still works in KDM, though. Where do I begin to look for the cause? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread jsmith
I agree with other posts that the original question sounds dodgy. To the original poster: if you really did have a son who passed away, please accept my condolences, and take the harshness of some of the other replies in the context that your question does arouse quite reasonable suspicions. It i

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) from Feb 26 > I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his > laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able > to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our > business. Can anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Squirrelmail issue

2003-02-26 Thread Ryan
I believe that you can get that error if you don't have SSL setup correctly. (i.e. your web server is running on port 443, but not with SSL capabilities). Try going to: http://localhost:443/squirrelmail/src/login.php and see if that works. Also, just try (if you have apache set up on port 80 as wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Luke Graham
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:11 pm, Tiago Sant' Anna da Silva wrote: > Someone said that Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:03:23 - > > Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\) wrote: > | I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his > | laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I ne

AW: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Ayhan Kondoz
If the mentioned method does not work you can always try to start another os without password and then access the harddrive. I would recommend knopix. You can download it on www.linuxiso.org. Get knopix, burn it onto a cd, start the laptop with it. The nice thing is knopix is directly started fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread MAL
Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) wrote: I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Tiago Sant' Anna da Silva
Someone said that Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:03:23 - Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\) wrote: | I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his | laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able | to log on to they system to access critical information

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Lerale Erwan
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:03:23PM -, Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) wrote: > I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his > laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able > to log on to they system to access critical information relating to

[gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\)
Title: Message I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the s

Re: [gentoo-user] APIC problem

2003-02-26 Thread Thomas Schneider
Wed, 26 Feb 2003: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >it's an APIC problem: my laptop doesn't like apic probing (i think) and >kernel compiled with the 'apic on uniprocessor' option hangs booting. I >try to pass 'noapic' and 'apic=off' option to the kernel parms, but it >doesn't work and booting always fail

[gentoo-user] APIC problem

2003-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it's an APIC problem: my laptop doesn't like apic probing (i think) and kernel compiled with the 'apic on uniprocessor' option hangs booting. I try to pass 'noapic' and 'apic=off' option to the kernel parms, but it doesn't work and booting always fails. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install fails

2003-02-26 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:37:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi to e-body! > I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails > because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to > the kernel parms. > What do u think? I hadb problems with acp

RE: [gentoo-user] Install fails

2003-02-26 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from > livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n > work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. Try apic=off Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install fails

2003-02-26 Thread Pat Double
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is APIC or ACPI it doesn't like? APIC is an interrupt controller which I've never had trouble with. ACPI is resource and power management, which I have had trouble with. I use "acpi=off" to disable it. On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:36 am, [EMA

[gentoo-user] APIC problem

2003-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there is no error message, boot simply hangs! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Install fails

2003-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi to e-body! I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. What do u think? Thank you, Maur8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list