Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've used CDRs for the backups I've done on CD. They are cheap enough that they work out better than trying to do a CDRW over and over. Backup anything you can't afford to loose G. Some things in your home directory - personal stuff such as financial and other records you want to keep. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror problem

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Thursday 07 August 2003 22:27, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 23:22, Collins Richey wrote: I'm not a regular kde user, but with konqueror I get: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. You say you are using the nvidia drivers, so you should have the following

Re: [gentoo-user] System hosed with input/output errors

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 08 August 2003 00:09, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yesterday I did an emerge sync, updated system, then started a world update. I canceled it on the qt update. Today I started the system with no problems, ran for a while (emerge sync) then shutdown. When I brought it back up I got init

Re: [gentoo-user] If is doesn't compile with -O3 -pipe is that not a BUG?

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Young
Robert Young wrote: Thomas you reply to is not set correctly so I am replying to my message with you content. "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > Could be -fomit-frame-pointer Does a P3 and up support debugging even without a frame pointer? Maybe I am not reading this correctly but does this not

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread donnie berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 August 2003 12:16, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would be better is something with switchable front-ends: curses, qt, gtk, whatever. This is exactly what I would like to do. As of now I would really like

[gentoo-user] Witch net analyzer do you use ?

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm looking for a net analyzer, for monitor trafic, broadcasts, colisions, band width and so on, if possible with a graphical So what can you all advice me ? Patrick -- If we don't get more power to the warp drive we're all going to have to get out and push! -- Paris (Parallax) PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: network question...

2003-08-14 Thread Andrej Kacian
(Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:32:03 -0700) And Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Joe, In the future you might want to refrain from sending HTML formatted email. I've found that many Linux folks won't read it! Doesn't bother me though. As long as content-type is multipart/alternative and

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well a project of this ambition is going to take a while to write anyways.. I dont think we should look at release cycles as obstacles standing in the way, and instead Do It Right (tm) even if it takes more time. The best solution seems to me to be what someone already

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
My ISP provide me with a 20meg filespace that I make use of regularly. I compress, encrypt and upload to it nightly. Not a lot of room... but perfect for important config data, etc. It also has the advantage of being accessable where ever and when ever I'm near an internet hookup... For

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:19:12 -0400 Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about typeset -f? No man entry for this. What does 'typeset' do. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a server

2003-08-14 Thread MAL
Robert Bragg wrote: If you don't use the ~arch flag it's as stable, if not more so than any other distro's stable version. This has niggled me for a while... Are the ~arch flags intended to denote the stability of the ebuilds or the stability of the packages? To me it makes more sence for them

[gentoo-user] x-chat buttons missing

2003-08-14 Thread Kees Bergwerf
On my SuSE linux machine I have x-chat 1.8.10 and on my gentoo linux machine I have x--chat 2.0.4 In the 2.0.* versions there are buttons missing :-( In x-chat 1.8.* there are right from the topic a few buttons [T][S][I][P][M][B][L] (topic protection, intive only, ban list etc) Does anybody

[gentoo-user] emerge fails

2003-08-14 Thread Bram De Smet
Hi, for a couple of weeks, I've been having some emerge problems. At first I thought it would go away with new rsyncs etc... it didn't. This is the error I get: dark root # emerge -pu --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ !!! all

Re: [gentoo-user] I/O errors

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:25:17AM +0200, Henri Schomäcker wrote: Hi again, since about a week I can't burn any CD any more, which worked perfectly before with K3B and CD-Bakeoven. And, in some other situations, some I/O errormessages also occur. I remember that I made some software

[gentoo-user] Linux kernel 2.6.* benchmarking/testing

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Recently, I began using linux-2.6.0-test3 and experienced the following problems. (1) Touchpad did not work - filed as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072 (2) Could not open shell window (Eterm) - fixed problem myself and did not file Other than that it's been mostly fine.

[gentoo-user] gthumb issues

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
Is anyone else having issues with gthumb? No matter what I try, gthumb refuses to show its image preview window. I have the preference selected and the window layout set up to show it but it never shows. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this an issue with the gentoo ebuild for gthumb?

Re: [gentoo-user] Translated OpenOffice

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:07:58 + Andrea Bergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:06, Collins Richey ha scritto: The current oppenoffice-bin builds run almost as fast as those compiled from source, so for me it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting mail

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Yes, there is just ask on the sylpheed-list or search there archives. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have delete the program, just for before my holiday :-( Patrick On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:28:54 +0200 Meka[ni] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program for converting kmail's mails to

RE: [gentoo-user] duplicate emails

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
I think I've found the problem, a silly Evolution filter goof :-) .. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:14, Mark Knecht wrote: David, Yours did not double post to me. I have only received one double post in the last few days, and it was a response to me, so that might have been intended. Mark

[gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi list! What is better to use for backups at home - CD-Rs, CD-RWs, another harddrive or something else? The standard way is to use tapes, but they are way too expensive for a home desktop system. Harddrives are also not that good, because I want to backup a harddrive in the first place, and

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I tell the true size of a partition (df != fdisk)?

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:55:32PM -0400, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm using a Promise TX4 RAID card to create a four-disk array, made up of two pairs of striped, mirrored 60G drives. In other words, I take two 60G drives and stripe them together into a 120G partition for performance, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Orphaned packages

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Craig Main wrote: Lo all, I am running out of diskspace on my laptop. How can I remove packaged that no longer are depended on? Or at least find out which packages are not needed by any other ones and are therefore safe to unmerge. TIA Craig Try 'emerge depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird email protocol

2003-08-14 Thread Shane Hickey
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:47:21 -0400 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm feeling a bit helpless today. Clicking og email links on webpages in Moz.Firebird give me a mailto is not a registered protocol. I'd like to find where I can change that. I'm using KDE and kmail on this box.

[gentoo-user] kspell with kmail?

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking at getting email spell checked. The kmail docs say that kspell is used. The kspell docs seems to be outdated as I have no Settings-Spellchecker, nor Tools-Spelling. I just reinstalled kde a few days ago and I don't have a kspell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Distro Day (Measuring thebenefits of the Gentoo approach)

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
prelink was used, but not grsecurity - just turned on what was needed. Kernel was modular, which is supposed to make a slight slowdown. On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:18, Spider wrote: I'm wiping this whole message since I'm not about to go and dwell on the Its very interesting that you don't

[gentoo-user] Re: which user i'm logged

2003-08-14 Thread Pawling
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:46:49 +0300, raptor wrote: how to see under which user i'm logged in... i mean when I do su user and I have no intication on the prompt is there way to see the user i'm logged... is this the correct one : #echo $USER tia You could also use the command whoami.

Re: [gentoo-user] Arts problem

2003-08-14 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Andrea! /var/tmp/ccache I think it is... Someone correct me if I'm wrong. On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:03:01 + Andrea Bergia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:52, Theofilos Intzoglou ha scritto: You just have to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetching updates with cron

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Michael Schreckenbauer (2003-08-07 16:37 +0200) Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2003 16:15 schrieb Thorsten Kampe: I have a vcron job[1] that syncs the portage tree und afterward fetches available updates - at least that's how it is

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.07 11:47, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: Does anyone know why whenever I want to install *any* of the xine GUIs (oxine, gxine, xine-ui) it wants to downgrade me as follows? running emerge -p gxine... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc questions

2003-08-14 Thread Paul K. Dickson
I keep getting all your replies to the gentoo-user group, but no one else's. Can you please take me out of your address list. On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 06:00, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:20:48AM +0200, Jens Mayer wrote: * On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:38:23 -0400,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Heschi Kreinick
In fact some of them are in the world file so I have no clue why dep-clean thinks they need cleaning, but it's also strange that some I emerged manually are not in world. If you're not completely up to date, old versions of packages that you need will show up as unneeded (after all, they

RE: [gentoo-user] Idea

2003-08-14 Thread Rex Young
eList, Hi everybody.. Every time I use emerge -S to look for something I've got to wait an eternity for results to appear.. so I feed up with this and I was thinking to turn the whole portage system (the pseudo database I mean) into mysql, what do you think about that?

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware don't want work

2003-08-14 Thread daniel
On August 5, 2003 01:47 pm, Alberto Bert wrote: I emerged vmware and executed the vmware-config.pl file. It starts the program and I can create a new virtual macjine, but I cannot run it. It print on standard error: first make sure that the modules are loaded: # /etc/init.d/vmware start if

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
From: Christoph Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Just add --- alsactl restore --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.start and --- alsactl store --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.stop This works fine for me! alsactl does not come with

Re: [gentoo-user] Making portage

2003-08-14 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Do you mean you want to add an ebuild for a package? If so check out the developer docs on ebuilds on the Gentoo website, then read man 1,5 ebuild and look at some ebuilds. How can I make (and post) portage? There is a package I would like to have as a portage, but I think it is easier to

[gentoo-user] Re: Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus

2003-08-14 Thread Alex
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=2 Bit Defender has a linux version for download. -alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Fred Van Andel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the fourth gentoo poll. The question is: What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? a) From stage1 b) From stage2 c) From stage3 Select only 1 option only. a) From stage1 everytime Uberoptimisation is the

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I tell the true size of a partition (df != fdisk)?

2003-08-14 Thread nmeyers
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:06:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:55:32PM -0400, Eric Livingston wrote: I'm using a Promise TX4 RAID card to create a four-disk array, made up of two pairs of striped, mirrored 60G drives. In other words, I take two 60G drives and

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Lars Strojny
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:16:45 +0200 Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:09:32 -0700 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, or simply wrap evolution in a script, Or to set it for just evolution you can create a little shell script or alias that does

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help configuring a HP DeskJet 940c

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 17:05, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Peter: Had a response for a developer whose name escapes me now, but he stated that the dirver name should have been hpijs and not HP-DeskJet 940C. That change corrected what ever was wrong and the printer is now installed. Who ever I

Re: [gentoo-user] timezone

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Did you set whether you are using local or UTC time in /etc/rc.conf? Tom Veldhouse - Original Message - From: Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] timezone I'm having trouble properly setting

Re: [gentoo-user] yp.conf getting overwritten

2003-08-14 Thread Juri Haberland
Ti Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was exactly it! Thanks. Too bad vmware's dhcp server doesn't know how to pass nis-domains... I think it can as it seems to be a standard ISC DHCPD version 2. Try to set option nis-domain yournisdomain; in /usr/lib/vmware/configurator/vmnet-dhcpd.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 07 August 2003 21:50, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:13:05 -0500 Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 17:02, Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer wrote: At 03:55 PM 8/7/2003 -0600, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:19:12 -0400 Dr.

Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail files being skipped?

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Floyd
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:38:31 +0100 Angel Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a feeleing that my ~/.procmailrc files are being skipped, it seems that email being delivered via fetchmail, is not following the rules in these files. Is there anyway, to force fetchmail to send all mail it

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Wojcikiewicz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 August 2003 12:57, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: quote who=Karl-Heinz Zimmer -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, 5. August 2003 18:13, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: Want to work on a project that hundreds

Re: [gentoo-user] Zope/Plone

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Syroid
Thanks for the response, Jean... --On Friday, August 08, 2003 01:27:49 +0200 Jean Jordaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't log in to the admin account, no way - no how. I've tried the zpasswd.py command/script. This password should get you in at http://yourhost:zopeport/manage i.e. the root

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
What are your kernel parameters for 1400x1050? I'm using vga=0x318 (1024x768) at the moment but anything higher like vga=0x31A|B (1280x1024) gives blurred fonts like you said. No kernel parameters IIRC. I just enabled the radeon framebuffer in the kernel. It autodetects my LCD correctly, and

[gentoo-user] Mozilla don't display font correctly

2003-08-14 Thread SvenKabelin
When I try to read japanese text with Mozilla, various common characters not exist or display correctly (substitute with a square). Also display utf-8 text to big (think so). I have tried to install many font packages, without success. I don't find any documentation to resolve my problem. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] If is doesn't compile with -O3 -pipe is that not a BUG?

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Young
Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:39:09 -0400 Robert Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought I submitted a bug against Mozilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26068 It seems to be because of my CFLAGS CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe

[gentoo-user] Sound Problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jon Ellis
I have MagicMedia 256AV audio on an old Presario 1920 laptop and I can't seem to get the sound to work. I have read that with this particular laptop, the IRQ, I/O, and DMA settings need to be set manually. So my questions is how exactly to I set all of this manually? TIA -- Jon Ellis [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.0 support for ATAPI CD/RW

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.06 23:27, Collins Richey wrote: I'm still using SCSI emulation support for now, and it works. Has anyone tried using the new support for CD/RW without SCSI emulation? What changes need to be made to devfsd.conf? Does cdredcord now use something like dev=/dev/hdc, or is there some new

[gentoo-user] itcl and itkwish

2003-08-14 Thread downtime null
i'm trying to get a MUD client that requires itcl/itk to compile. i merged itcl (which includes itk), but itkwish is nowhere to be found. the program (SMM++) needs itkwish. why isn't it being compiled and installed with itcl? i can't find a configure switch or anything to get it installed. it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with emerge gnome

2003-08-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Thanks, I've filed a bug report (26591) , hopefully I've included enough information and there might be a fix one day soon. Yep, File a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Make sure to include -FAR- more of the compilation log than this. The error you reported only says that gnome-terminal

[gentoo-user] duplicate emails

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Askew
I've noticed that I get duplicate emails on this list from several users. What might be causing this ? -- How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb ? Answer : None, they just declare darkness a new standard. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread brett holcomb
It means that this version will go in what it calls SLOT 1. It's a way for Gentoo to install different versions of the same package such as Gnome. They coexist on the system. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:07:02 -0400 (EDT) Jason A. Pfeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm...What does the SLOT=1 in

Re: [gentoo-user] xine GUIs that work with GNOME2?

2003-08-14 Thread Jason A. Pfeil
I understand. It was just a little confusing. Now I understand how it works. I tried to manually install that version and it wouldn't let me. I tried to emerge -u libglade and it said that there was no upgrade. Then, I tried to emerge it and it wanted to re-merge the installed one. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to boot gentoo 1.4 on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Monday 11 August 2003 23:11, Ben Kennedy wrote: On 11 8 2003 at 6:06 pm -0400, Vincent van de Camp wrote: Ah... the Asus A7V... :) I've had it too, I needed to turn off as many options as possible to get the livecd to boot: noscsi; nodhcp; nousb; no-what-have-you (don't have a cd here to

RE: [gentoo-user] Normal applications under OpenMosix?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Well, That's not been the case here.. There are several factors you have to take into account.. for example... If you have two 686's and a 586.. if I compile something on the 686, it won't transfer to the 586 unless it thinks it will run faster on there, then where its at.. But it will

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache2 with mod_ssl but without apache1

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfram Umlauf
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:32:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:26:00PM +0200, Wolfram Umlauf wrote: How can I emerge mod_ssl WITHOUT emerging apache-1.x as well? I haven't tried it, but my guess is you need to add apache2 to the USE flags in /etc/make.conf. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] I need a devfsd.conf tutorial.

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wesley
There is an option for /dev/nvram support in the kernel config, is yours turned on? On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, brett holcomb wrote: Check man devfsd and man devfsd.conf for a start. The man page has a link to the devfsd homepage or do a search for devfsd. On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:48:00 -0700

[gentoo-user] ownership of devices

2003-08-14 Thread Christian Bartl
Dear Gentoo users, as I have problems with ALSA since the last upgrade of alsa-libs/driver/utils I verified the permissions of /dev/dsp and noticed that there are several device owned by the user I normally login as. Heres the output of ls -ld $(find /dev ! -user root): crw--- 1 psy

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 01:00, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: The current GUI is using dialog, but it is very limited. I really want to see a CUSTOM GUI. (...) We want to make something that is HOT, not something that is boring. Those are just

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Monday 11 August 2003 15:40, daniel wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:23, Renat Golubchyk wrote: From /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc : --- cut here --- debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary acrosss packages, but generally it will at least add -g

[gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
Apologies to anyone that may have recieved message bounces from my mailserver earlier today On a semi-related note, please remember to double check ip addresses when moving alot of data between machines. For example, typing 192.168.1.1 when you mean 192.168.1.10 could cause 900MB of data to be

RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Christian Aust
Am Don, 2003-08-07 um 13.24 schrieb Gwendolyn van der Linden: [...] Autodetection gives a totally warped and unreadable text screen, and all 1400x1050 parameter settings I could think of (playing with color depth and refresh rate) did not work either. Some of the 1280x1024 modes did work.

Re: [gentoo-user] window focus in fluxbox

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alexander Futasz wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:11:12 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have fluxbox as my WM. When I'm using Mozilla, if I switch windows by using Mozilla's 'Window' menu, the new one comes to the front, but the old one still has focus in the background until I click in the new one.

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix (w/ virtual domains) + autoresponder

2003-08-14 Thread Florian Finke
Hi Matthias, you can use formail and maildrop for this. add this mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop to your main.cf and then create a $HOME/.mailfilter file: SHELL=/bin/bash if ( !/^From: MAILER-DAEMON/ ) { if ( !/^X-Loop/ ) { exception { cc | (/usr/bin/formail -I\Return-Path\ -r

RE: [gentoo-user] kspell with kmail?

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: I'm looking at getting email spell checked. The kmail docs say that kspell is used. The kspell docs seems to be outdated as I have no Settings-Spellchecker, nor Tools-Spelling. I just reinstalled kde a few days ago and I don't have a kspell binary. Any ideas? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptoloop rc script

2003-08-14 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.10 22:48, Jerry McBride wrote: I had the need to automate to some degree the startup of a crypto loop. After digging around the internet a bit and not really finding exactly what I needed... I borrowed a bash script that I found and polished it off a tad-bit and added some original

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with SCSI

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 02:28 pm, Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I don't have a system yet this is when I insert the cd and want to install the gentoo cd's I'm not new to linux but I have not done any of the bootloader things before I have the gentoo screen after booting from cd where I can select the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:43, Brian Richardson wrote: It's probably easiest just to use the KMix applet, as it unmutes and sets the volume in one click. However, if you don't use KDE, you might want to have a look at the man page for amixer. -- Brian Brian, I don't believe this is

[gentoo-user] mozilla freezes in some networks (?)

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi, I'm using my laptop in different networks, 10 Mbit static IP DHCP 100 Mbib staic IP I don't know why mozilla works only in the first one and unfortunately it is going to be eliminated. In the other 2 network it doesn't work. So I'm in trouble... mozilla freezes the window and I must kill

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Alan
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:56:49PM +0200, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced.

Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 23:32, Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.10 17:18, Yorkshire Dave wrote: Recompile your kernel without framebuffer support I have the same problem here, that's how I cured it. One day it will get fixed properly, but don't hold your breath, the problem has existed a while.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]:xmms under Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:24, Brian Richardson wrote: Left click on the upper left corner of the GUI, select Options-Preferences. Select the OSS driver from the list of output plugins, and press Configure. Brian, Thanks. That gets me closer. It was set for OSS. I've switched to trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird email protocol

2003-08-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:57 pm, Shane Hickey wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:47:21 -0400 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm feeling a bit helpless today. Clicking og email links on webpages in Moz.Firebird give me a mailto is not a registered protocol. I'd like to find where I

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4_final CFLAGS Generation?

2003-08-14 Thread Robin H . Johnson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:04:18PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: They might be referring to the genflags package, it comes with strangely names info2flags, info2host and host2flags. It parses your machine information and spits back safe/fast flags for you. Kind of a middle ground. Not freakishly

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Or sometimes she dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Tuesday 12 August 2003 18:39, Leonard Bernstein wrote: this box does not run X .. it seems to have just started.. its been running fine .. the problem just seems to have appeared.. i can boot to a prompt, but i must try multiple times before i get lucky .. I would make a backup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:29:55 -0500 Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I don't really antivirus my linux box since I don't have a mail server on it.. But am starting to use it as a file server to some windblows computers so antivirus is becoming more critical..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update all installed packages - emerge -uDpvworld (don't work)

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that CrPy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ml, Am Montag, 4. August 2003 12:51 schrieb CrPy: Hi, there are a concern, I like to have cleared and dicussed. 1. Why does emerge -upv $(qpkg -I -nc) != emerge -uDpv world? The first try to update all packages. All

[gentoo-user] Problems with the livecd boot

2003-08-14 Thread Xosé A.
Hi all, Well, I've installed Gentoo on my laptop and and desktop computers, but now I've tried to install it in computer working as a fileserver, the problem is that this system is all SCSI, and the livecd boots correctly until the detection of storage devices, then it stops in Scanning for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fetching updates with cron

2003-08-14 Thread Robert B. Hawkins
2003 8 8 19:20Dhruba Bandopadhyay : If you or anyone else is interested in the script I use, let me know and I will send it to you (or the list if it is allowed). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Yes. Out of curiousity I would be interested in this script if you wouldn't mind :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Peter Ruskin -- == Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.9 kernel-2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ == Sorry, but what is Gentoo Base System version

[gentoo-user] emerge - How do I get around a 'block'?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge that seems to apply, but I don't know how to go forward properly. I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] posting a useful bug to bugzilla

2003-08-14 Thread gabriel
On August 11, 2003 10:01 am, Renat Golubchyk wrote: nostrip tells portage not to strip the binaries after compilation. The binaries remain bigger in size but they also have the symbols in them (like debugging symbols). After stripping the binaries become smaller, sometimes even 3 or 4 times

[gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising stability we add server related performance patches.

[gentoo-user] dynamic ip and a domain

2003-08-14 Thread Gëzim
Hi guys, I've got a dynamic IP and I run a web server (I also use dynamic dns). I bought a domain name and I use zoneedit.com as my dns server. My question is, is it possible to have my domain take the traffic to my dynamic IP (without me having to do it manually everytime my IP changes), and for

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.4_final CFLAGS Generation?

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, that program looks rather dull ... arch and -O3 pipe ... big deal :) What about C++ optimizations such as -fmemoize-lookups and -fsave-memoized ??? I'll speek up in defense of the developers (whoever those mythical creatures are), they are not at version 1.0 yet

Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Steven Elling wrote: Here is a nice trick. Want to know which package the executables tic, tack and toe belong to? Just do the following (those a backtick not single quotes): ~ $ epm -qf `type -p tic` ncurses-5.3-r1 ~ $ epm -qf `type -p tac` textutils-2.1 ~ $ epm -qf `type -p toe`

[gentoo-user] RE thin bcast SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
Well, it works now. I set the dvb (Digital Video Broadcasting) USE variable. Maybe that was it, at least I think I tried the command bcast2000 (not bcast) before. Thanks, Nathan. -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wanted: GUI programmer (GLIS)

2003-08-14 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently neither you nor Dhruba have seen the kde-gnome LiveCDs. All of the 1.4 release CDs have X (afaik, of course, since I haven't actually used one) with the exception of the basic ones. I am using x86-1.4-20030803-cd1.iso to install right now, and it has no X.

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:27 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Tom Hosiawa wrote: How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to emerge

[gentoo-user] Firewall and syslogd

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I am not a syslog expert, so need some help. I have rules in my firewall for logging, but currently, it is all logged into my syslog file. How do I setup syslog to filter them out and put them in a separate file. Does anybody here have a scheme for this? What I mean is, do you use multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] kvirc with SSL

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan D. Stine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you can, it's best to use CVS or the latest snapshot off their site (www.kvirc.de). Beta2 is way behind development. This is a bit more complicated than just installing through portage, but you'll have a newer, better KvIRC that way. On

Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
Out of interest what video drivers are you using?? If you are using the nvidia driver and a frame buffer for the kernel boot up then this is a known problem (its in the nvidia readme's). It is caused as two kernel drivers both want the same hardware I think. ah good to know... but is

[gentoo-user] GkrellM help...

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Brault
Hello, I have emerged GkrellM, but for some reason i'm not able to get it to run in gnome... I've been unsuccessful in finding any help on the web.. I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction? I'm unable to find it in any menu, and when I type 'GkrellM' in a

[gentoo-user] New VIDEO_CARDS parameter?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm trying to emerge xfree-drm on an older machine, but I'm getting a message I didn't get when I did this a few months ago. The message: !!!Please set at least one video card in VIDEO_CARDS. USE is depreciated. I've tried putting VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf, and I've tried it in the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.21 and broadcom

2003-08-14 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Kees, Nachricht vom Freitag, 8. August 2003, 00:39:00: I am looking in the menuconfig from the gentoo-sources 2.4.21 but I can't see any support for my broadcom network card anymore :-( Has it gone? It was supported in the 2.4.20-r5 kernel Can you tell us more about that card? Timo

Re: [gentoo-user] bttv WHERE IS IT?

2003-08-14 Thread David Mallwitz
Look under /usr/src/your kernel version/drivers/media/video for the source, /usr/src/your kernel version/Documentation/video4linux/bttv for the docs and /lib/modules/your kernel version/kernel/drivers/media/video for the module. Dave On Sunday 10 August 2003 05:45 pm, Meka[ni] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing APC-UPS

2003-08-14 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, Nachricht vom Montag, 4. August 2003, 15:51:25: Hi, Nachricht vom Samstag, 2. August 2003, 23:59:46: Hi, I just bought a used APC UPS, being a Smart-UPS with a SmartSlot. In this SmartSlot is 9607 management card, which provides the second and third serial management-port. I

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