Re: [gentoo-user] 4 copies of every post?

2003-04-01 Thread Don Smith
Kevin J. Anderson wrote: ->-Original Message- ->From: Don Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:44 PM ->To: Gentoo-User ->Subject: [gentoo-user] 4 copies of every post? -> -> ->I have been getting this the past two days, anyone else? An

[gentoo-user] 4 copies of every post?

2003-04-01 Thread Don Smith
I have been getting this the past two days, anyone else? Anyone have any idea why? Don -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-23 Thread Don Smith
Sundance wrote: I heard Don Smith said: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -o gasmoff gasmoff.o bitstream.o -lpopt -lm -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-22 Thread Don Smith
Arnold Krille wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 18:57, Don Smith wrote: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -o gasmoff gasmoff.o bitstream.o -lpopt -lm -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu

[gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-22 Thread Don Smith
I posted this in the forums earlier, but got no responses, yet. I did a few searches and did not find anyone else having this. Here is the error: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -o gasmoff gasmoff.o bitstream.o -lpopt -lm -L/usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] How to change the keybindings in KDE3?

2003-03-21 Thread Don Smith
Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: Andy Arbon wrote: The only problem is that I am in a very firm rut of using lots of old Unix/Emacs keybindings and I can't get used to them not working in KWord etc.. Is there any way to make KDE let me use these bindings? Check Settings/Configure Shortcuts in KWord (an

Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Don Smith
Graham, Steve wrote: Unfortunately I have yet to make it past the reboot after finishing the kernel compile, but that's just because this is such a huge learning curve for me. I am rather curious though why gentoo takes so long to compile and setup verses some of the other distros? Is it simply th

Re: [gentoo-user] "Package in world file is not installed"

2003-03-19 Thread Don Smith
Ian Tindale wrote: Every time I try for an emerge world, I get a series of "Package in world file is not installed" yadda yadda yadda messages. Is there an easy fix? Is the system doomed? Should I just make a cup of tea and cry? Try running regenworld. It will double check your world file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.3.1 ebuild

2003-03-17 Thread Don Smith
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 17:05, Don Smith wrote: Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 16:14, Don Smith wrote: I wanted to try this out, used this: #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u evolution and it returns no packages. So then I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 1.3.1 ebuild

2003-03-15 Thread Don Smith
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 16:14, Don Smith wrote: I wanted to try this out, used this: #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u evolution and it returns no packages. So then I tried going right in /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution and try #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="

[gentoo-user] Evolution 1.3.1 ebuild

2003-03-15 Thread Don Smith
I wanted to try this out, used this: #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u evolution and it returns no packages. So then I tried going right in /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution and try #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p evolution-1.3.1.ebuild it returns: Calculating dependencies / !!! all ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-03-15 Thread Don Smith
Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! Since English is not my native language I was wondering how do you pronounce "Portage". With two stresses like two different words "port age" or with one stress like in "sausage"? Just curious ;-) Maybe we need an audio version from Daniel Robbins with "Hello, I'm Dani

[gentoo-user] Opera Ebuilds?

2003-03-12 Thread Don Smith
Any word on Opera 6.12? How about Opera 7.0 Preview? I have not taken on the challenge of doing an ebuild yet, myself. Thanks Don -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Don Smith
Richard Revis wrote: Don Smith wrote: Ideas? None - I am starting to get a little irritated by it now. I have tried blakdown 1.3.1,1.4.1 sun j2sdk 1.4.1, jdk 1.4.1 and others, all with no sucess (although they work fine in phoenix-bin). Just remove the symbolic link to stop it crashing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Don Smith
Richard Revis wrote: Don Smith wrote: Ideas? None - I am starting to get a little irritated by it now. I have tried blakdown 1.3.1,1.4.1 sun j2sdk 1.4.1, jdk 1.4.1 and others, all with no sucess (although they work fine in phoenix-bin). Just remove the symbolic link to stop it crashing

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Don Smith
Alex Fore wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:49:28 -0500 Don Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I have followed the steps to get the Sun's java to work with Mozilla. No go. I followed the step by step to get Blackdown working, no go. I have managed to get Moz 1.2.1 to see a java

[gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Don Smith
Ok, I have followed the steps to get the Sun's java to work with Mozilla. No go. I followed the step by step to get Blackdown working, no go. I have managed to get Moz 1.2.1 to see a java plugin, but it dies (exits right away) when I go to a page with java. To get Moz to see it, I had to co

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla and java

2003-03-10 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Susie wrote: |On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:18:50 -0500 |Don Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>I followed this step by step and it does not work here. Moz 1.2.1. |> Ideas? Anyone? | | |If your x86 or ppc go into the blackdown java 1.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla and java

2003-03-10 Thread Don Smith
Kent Jantz wrote: Here is how I got it working: 1. Unmerge Openmotif and Lesstif if you have them installed 2. Emerge Mozilla 3. Emerge Blackdown-jdk(you can do Sun's version to but it takes about 3 hours to compile), make sure it's installing version 1.4.1. 4. Type 'java-config --list-availab

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: | | First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. | | Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irreveleva

[gentoo-user] XFree Unmasked?

2003-03-05 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any word on when XFree86 4.3 will be unmasked? I have it installed but it has made my daily ritual # emerge sync # emerge -pu --deep world I think I am becoming obsessive or compulsive. Perhaps both :) Don -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raghuram Rajagopal wrote: |Sorry, if this question would startup a hardtalk here. | |- Original Message - |From: "Mike Diehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:59 AM |Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Opi

[gentoo-user] Odd KDE Desktop problem

2003-02-22 Thread Don Smith
I asked in the forums, but no on has replied. Now and then I get a situation where the all the desktops stop responding. The mouse cursor changes to the hand that it uses to point at links in a browser, all the icons are gone and the desktop menu will not pop up. I am re-emerging kdebase t

RE: [gentoo-user] arch

2003-02-16 Thread Don Smith
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Lockie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 16, 2003 13:57 > To: Gentoo User Mailing List > Subject: [gentoo-user] arch > > > # Pentium Pro/Pentium II/Pentium III+/Pentium 4/Athlon > exclusive (binaries # will use the P6 instruction set and > o

[gentoo-user] Alsa, sound all problems solved!

2003-02-15 Thread Don Smith
Title: Alsa, sound all problems solved! Some may remember my problems here getting sound to work.  Right now I am listening to mp3s in XMMS using ALSA as a regular user.  Since I last fought sound, I have upgraded my motherboard so I am using Alsa and snd-intel8x0 (Intel 82801BA/BAM /proc/pc

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] PIII to P4, optimisations for a full system rebuild.

2003-02-10 Thread Don Smith
  At 2003-02-10, 13:14:00 you wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:47, Don Smith wrote: >>   >>  What I want to know is are there >>  any "safe" flags that I should add &g

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] PIII to P4, optimisations for a full systemrebuild.

2003-02-10 Thread Don Smith
At 2003-02-10, 10:02:00 you wrote: I dont know what was I doing ! I didnt notice that you were looking for flags other then pentium4 :( sorry for the spam Spundun On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:58, Spundun Bhatt wrot

[gentoo-user] PIII to P4, optimisations for a full system rebuild.

2003-02-10 Thread Don Smith
I have just upgraded my PC from a PIII to a P4.  I know I can use

[gentoo-user] Rebuild After upgrade PIII to P4

2003-02-08 Thread Don Smith
I have seen the question asked, but there has not really been an answer. How does one rebuild the whole system? I have done my kernel. I have changed the CFLAGS in make.conf to -march=pentium4 (not verbatim listing). Odd thing, I am upgrading Mozilla and it is still using march=pentium3. Wher

RE: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread Don Smith
> -Original Message- > From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 6, 2003 11:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations > > > Okay. I understand now. I thought it was for the > graphics cards. > > VIA is a mess - I don'

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] running X at nice -10

2003-02-06 Thread Don Smith
At 2003-02-06, 08:52:00 you wrote: The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.   At 08:42 AM 2/6/2003 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: >> On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:08, Jozsa Kristof wrote: >>  >