Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Graves
I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. This'll happen when you don't have any font installed for the characters the web page is using.

Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird

2003-12-08 Thread Scharf Yuval
Yuval Scharf On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Chris Graves wrote: I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those funny squares each includes 4 characters. This'll happen when you don't have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 06:52, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: One thing I miss in emerge is something similar to *apt-get show [package]* which lists a rather (often) detailed description of the

[gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, I am updating my server but for some reason it wants to emerge xfree and a few other things i dont think are needed, here is what it wants: [ebuild U ] dev-java/java-config-1.1.7 [1.1.5] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r5 [5.0-r3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r9

Re: [gentoo-user] Package info (Was: HiZ PpL)

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: The only way that I know of at the moment is by checking the changelog. This can be found in the portage tree or by using the options -p and -l to emerge. Ok, I'll take a look at the -pl option. Thanks. /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Michael Andreen
On Monday 22 December 2003 23.17, blade- wrote: my use flags are like so: USE=apache2 clamav imap maildir php sasl -arts -avi -cups -gtk -kde \ -gnome -qt -quicktime -X does anyone know why it wants to emerge all these things that were not needed before? A friend had the same

[gentoo-user] CUPS printing problem with windows share

2003-12-08 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
Hi All, I'm trying to setup cups printing with a windows printer share. However, I'm getting an error like cli_session_request failed message. I had it setup fine with my laptop running gentoo sometime back but now with my gentoo desktop can not set it up. I have also installed suse 9.0 as well

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine, 21, 22, and 23 don't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes

2003-12-08 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * Celestial Wizard, Monday, December 8, 2003, 8:01:24 AM: By boxes I mean both servers and SOE desktops. Basically our rules are standard installs for roles. IE - Firewalls, File and Print (not many), Web Application, Database, SOE Desktops etc... On these boxes we also dont install

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
To add, dont delete the /usr/portage/distfiles directory afterwards thinking that you have finished with the source code. You may find yourself re-downloading it all again! Modems require a little bit of extra thought (saying someone who now has had broadband for 2 weeks! - and was on a modem

[gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
I've been trying to find out how to emerge a package with some configure options but no go. I want to emerge timidity++ and it should be compiled with the options --enable-audio=alsa --enable-server --enable-alsaseq. How do I do this? Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2003-12-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Monday 08 December 2003 18:37, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-08, David Gethings wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not then just run 'genkernel'. Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do

[gentoo-user] java-gnome won't emerge

2003-12-08 Thread Scott Stoddard
Hello all, I have tried to emerge java-gnome several times only to come upon the same error. (Have tried emerge sync, world, etc in between tries). There error(s) that I am getting are: ** creating java-gtk.spec sed: -e expression #1, char 43: Unterminated `s' command sed: -e

[gentoo-user] exim terminated by PAX

2003-12-08 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hi, Following is coming in my logs: Dec 8 16:33:25 test PAX: From 192.168.101.1: terminating task: /usr/sbin/exim(exim):30170, uid/euid: 0/0, EIP: 0062, ESP: 580A2A3C Dec 8 16:33:25 test PAX: bytes at EIP: invalid address. I have 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel compiled from genkernel using

[gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi, I just upgraded to the 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel (from -r8), and it suddenly OOps'ed (segfault caused by error in inode.c) when unmounting a partition before reboot. This made me a bit suspicious, since I used the exact same config as with -r8, and kernels from these series have never

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Alijandro Gumbs
You need to edit the e-build. If you want to install timidity++-2.12.0 the file you would edit is /usr/portage/media-sound/timidity++/timidity++-2.12.0.ebuild. If you look at the file you will notice a number of config options are already being enabled, check if any of them are the ones that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check the ebuild for the package and see what use flags it wants - or do emerge packagename -pv which lists what flags will be used or not used. If you can't set a USE flag then you may have to modify the ebuild. On Monday 08 December 2003 18:24, you wrote: I've been trying to find out how

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On 08 Dec 2003 19:05:39 -0500 Alijandro Gumbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You need to edit the e-build. Bad idea, and totally unnecessary. USE=alsa is all that is needed. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Basic rc-script trouble

2003-12-08 Thread Makurin Roman
I wrote rc-script for linux_logo. How can I disable final [ok] mark ? -- Makurin Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:24, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: I've been trying to find out how to emerge a package with some configure options but no go. I want to emerge timidity++ and it should be compiled with the options --enable-audio=alsa --enable-server --enable-alsaseq. How do I do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run emerge -ep and

[gentoo-user] MSI KT4 ULtra MB poweroff

2003-12-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi I have a MSI KT4 ULtra MB that refuses to poweroff, no matter what I do. Evene with a previous kernel that did poweroff before I swapped the MSI in, it still wouldnt do it. Also tried gs-sources and openmosix-sources to no avail Can someone share their bios/apm/acpi settings that work for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that worked That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:49:27 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:49, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:32, blade- wrote: Michael Andreen wrote: A friend had the same problem, try to add -gtk2 to your USE flags. /Michael Andreen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thank you, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on dialup

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Farmer
Here's a set of scripts I use to automatically sync/fetch/emerge all packages over a modem. Works great (for me at least). Note that you'll need gentoolkit installed. Intended usage is to run prepare-updates (as root) with an optional argument (which gets passed to sleep) to update your system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs

2003-12-08 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Bryan Whitehead wrote: Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine,

[gentoo-user] rc-script trouble

2003-12-08 Thread Makurin Roman
I wrote rc-script for linux_logo. How can I disable final [ok] mark ? -- Makurin Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Vaughn
Hey, guys. I need your help. I'm really into 35mm photography (I hate digital cameras), though I very much like keeping a digital portfolio of my pictures for online display. I decided that I would like to purchase a scanner for the sole purpose of converting my images to a digital format with

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they have pretty good support for Linux. The Epson 1660 was mentioned as well as the 2400, and 3200 series. On Monday 08 December 2003 20:48, you wrote: Hey, guys. I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Jason Stubbs wrote: That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run emerge -ep and then tell us which package comes immediately after gtk+? Thanks. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.0.8a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Hall
My Epson Perfection 640U works fine for me in Gentoo. Dont't remember what is cost, but it wasn't much, $100? I use a scanning program called QuiteInsane. No ebuild, I compile it from CVS. http://quiteinsane.sourceforge.net/cvs.html AFAIK, TWAIN support is irrelevant in Linux. Check to see if a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world wants xfree

2003-12-08 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:21:00 +1100 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Stubbs wrote: That seems to be a bug. Can you remove -gtk2 again, run emerge -ep and then tell us which package comes immediately after gtk+? Thanks. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Olson, Isaac
I've got a super-cheapo Mustek 1200UB flatbed. That scanner is a PITA when it comes to getting it working in Windows2k/XP. No problem with Mandrake 9.0+, Redhat 7.3+, or Gentoo - works perfect. Isaac Matthew Vaughn wrote: Hey, guys. I need your help. I'm really into 35mm photography (I hate

[gentoo-user] Fonts

2003-12-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
You know, I've heard complaints about Linux and fonts... but I just have to say. My fonts look DAMN good. Just had to share. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [+1 662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with configure options

2003-12-08 Thread Alijandro Gumbs
Not all that bad of an idea (IMO), I was unaware of the -vp option (to be honest I should have RTFM'd the portage document more, but he should still check what options are being enabled when merging a package. Also familiarizing himself with the e-build files *will* prove to be helpful. Also I

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:41 am, Øyvind Stegard wrote: Hi, I just upgraded to the 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 kernel (from -r8), and it suddenly OOps'ed (segfault caused by error in inode.c) when unmounting a partition before reboot. This made me a bit suspicious, since I used the exact same config as with

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread TriKster Abacus
I use a Epson Perfection 1660 Photo scanner under xsane It works great, bought it for like $89 bux -- TriKster Abacus irc.freenode.net #cllug #gentoo #linuxfriends irc.cotse.com #linux #linuxmall.us http://www.cllug.org http://www.trikster.homelinux.org icq# 266645328 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread rd
To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask and put dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 in it. This will mask anything newer until YOU remove this entry. -rdg On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:41, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-07, rd wrote: OK, so I am going

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread rd
Matthew -- I don't want to bust your bubble... but scanning 35mm slides is not something that should be done with $300 scanners. No if you want any kind of quality. It might be ok if you are just trying to build an index/thumb gallery of your pictures. To truly scan a slide into the computer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Alma J Wetzker
I have heard the same for Epson scanners except for the ones that end in '70. They are reported to hate linux. -- Alma Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they have pretty good

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on USB scanners in Linux?

2003-12-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 08 December 2003 09:09 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't have a USB scanner (just an old Microtek IISP) but the linux newsgroup I hang out in seems to like Epson scanners as they have pretty good support for Linux. The Epson 1660 was mentioned as well as the 2400, and 3200 series.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia acceleration problem

2003-12-08 Thread Jim
On Sunday 07 December 2003 11:17 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:16 pm, Jim wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:55 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:41 pm, collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 07:31, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 07

[gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:43:08 +1100 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. Edit your /etc/conf.d/net file and change dhcpcd_eth0=... to dhcpcd_eth0=-R. Change eth0 to appropriate interface.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf

2003-12-08 Thread blade-
Thanks Ian Truelsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:43:08 +1100 blade- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the way to stop dhcpcd overwriting resolv.conf? i just cant remeber how to do it. Edit your /etc/conf.d/net file and change dhcpcd_eth0=... to dhcpcd_eth0=-R. Change

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs-qt conflict?

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Hosiawa
I can't remember the exact reasoning as to why it was set up that way, but the point of the exercise was to ensure that users upgraded qt before upgrading kdelibs. If you can then unmerge kdelibs, upgrade qt and then reemerge kdelibs. Otherwise, go into the qt-3.2.3.ebuild, remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Allison
If the r9' kernels are 'redhat 9' derived, that problem probably has to do with threading (a back port and very different -- many threaded programs break) and/or a broken glibc. In the redhat world you need to upgrade the kernel to the bleeding edge, same with glibc to make most things work. On

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 2003-12-08, rd wrote: To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask and put dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 in it. This will mask anything newer until YOU remove this entry. Ah, wonderful. Thank you. But /etc/portage/package.mask doesn't seem to exist here!

[gentoo-user] error in compiling mutt

2003-12-08 Thread SMS WebMaster
checking for towupper... yes checking for towlower... yes checking for mbstate_t... yes checking for wchar_t functions... yes checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes checking for nl_langinfo and YESEXPR... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating

Re: [gentoo-user] vipul's razor won't install

2003-12-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:17, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On 2003-12-08, rd wrote: To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask and put dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 in it. This will mask anything newer until YOU remove this entry. Ah, wonderful.

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