[gentoo-user] thunderbird and gtk-theme

hi, after emerging the latest mozilla-thunderbird ebuild (v0.4) the appearance of my email client is totally different: it shows up in a aqua gtk-theme. though i have switched to this theme with switch2 (gtk-theme-switch) befor, thunderbird didn't change it's appearance (that was absolut ok

[gentoo-user] open office calc - border/grid question

hi is there a way in oocalc to get different border width to frame different sections in the grid (like this is possible in M$ windowz)? regards, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] bad gentoo performance

hi what about that? http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=227 cheers, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] mime-types problem with thunderbird

hi all, i added following line to /etc/mailcap: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; ooimpress '%s'; now, the strange thing is that sometimes it works to open an attachement out of the email (client: MozillaThunderbird) and sometimes it doesn't! all i can do then is to save the *.pps-file. and the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

Eric Livingston wrote: I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. Eric i'm 100% linux. i used to boot into w2k for gaming purposes.

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

gabriel wrote: if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. how do you rip an audio cd (to mp3 or wav) with k3b? i don't see the option... anyway, what's the best app to rip cd's to mp3s? thx eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] playing a VCD

Bruce E. Harris wrote: mplayer is getting closer then and thing else I tired. It starts then fails with these errors. I noticed I do not have a conf file, and not sure how to create it, and cant find DOCS/codecs.html! first of all: did you run an emerge win32codecs divx4linux ? i prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash

Redeeman wrote: when you talk about bootsplash, i cant stop wonder if there is a patch for 2.4.22, because i HAVE to use 2.4.22 due to drivers, but i want bootsplash too, but i have seen that the patch only is for 2.4.20 :/ FYI [quote1] Here are bootsplash patches for 2.4.21 and 2.4.22

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

MAL wrote: Hmm, using the same kernel and a Radeon 8500LE, (now cheaper than that nVidia card), and 16bpp, (same as you), I get: 7485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1497.000 FPS 8763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1752.600 FPS 8744 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1748.800 FPS 8764 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1752.800

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating transcode

hi christian Christian Herzyk wrote: I get the following error when upgrading transcode Can anyone help? we had this topic already twice this week! env USE=mmx emerge transcode cheers, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

Ian Truelsen wrote: I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI. Given the choice between the two, which would

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

Donnie Berkholz wrote: Unfortunately nVidia's 3D support is all closed-source, and they don't really share documentation for 2D either. I do not consider this better. ATi, on the other hand, has shared complete documentation for many of its earlier cards and I believe this will continue. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode

Paul Stear wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the workaround that I found was to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode

hi paul Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have just done an update world which indicated that transcode needed to be updated to 0.6.10. However. I get the following error message, has anyone any suggestions as to how to resolve this?

[gentoo-user] transcode emerge error (was: alsa-driver)

hi Michael Rasile wrote: I have been trying to emerge the alsa-driver, but the emerge fails. The error message is this: ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2 failed. Function src_compile, Line 59, Exitcode 2 Parallel Make Failed. i'm getting almost the same error when compiling the package

Re: [gentoo-user] portage masked problem

Alexander Plank wrote: Enemy Territory is no longer going to be in portage. wolf31o2, the game developer told me he emailed ttimo of Id software about the issue but the last time he talked to me he said: --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 06:45 UTC --- I would

Re: [gentoo-user] portage masked problem

Wayne Oliver wrote: *when i try to emerge enemy-territory on my dell notebook it shows *up as masked. though on my desktop system the same ebuild isn't *masked. *even a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS x86 doesn't help. try ACCEPT_KEYWORD=~86 -- This allows unstable packages this doesn't work :( check the

[gentoo-user] portage masked problem

hi when i try to emerge enemy-territory on my dell notebook it shows up as masked. though on my desktop system the same ebuild isn't masked. even a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS x86 doesn't help. anybody got an idea? thanx eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE Dockapp 4 fluxbox question

hi i'd like to switch from enlightenment to fluxbox. one thing i like on all those fluxbox screenshots is that dockapp: http://www.fluxbox.org/features/kdesup.php what's the name of it? anybody knows that? i hope so. cheers, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Dockapp 4 fluxbox question

Fred Clausen wrote: http://www.fluxbox.org/features/kdesup.php what's the name of it? anybody knows that? That might be gkrellm. If it isn't, I use fluxbox and gkrellm is the best app for monitoring your system. Fred Clausen fred, thanx. i know gkrellm. but i've never seen a skin that looks

Re: [gentoo-user] unresolved symbol cmpxchg in radeon-module

yeah. in the kernel config use processor type i386. let me know if it worked. -eric Robert Young wrote: Did you ever resulve this I am having the same problem with my card as well? Eric Marchionni wrote: hi after i recompiled my (new) kernel with a new config i don't have 3d-acceleration

[gentoo-user] unresolved symbol cmpxchg in radeon-module

hi after i recompiled my (new) kernel with a new config i don't have 3d-acceleration support anymore. glxgears shows about 200 fps. befor i had 2000 fps! the problem is i can't load the radeon module from the dri-project anymore. i have done a emerge xfree-drm after the kernel-compilation. but

[gentoo-user] no sound devices!?

hello i did have sound befor, but now i don't :( i discovered that there is no /dev/sound anymore. does anybody know how to fix that. thanx, eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound devices!?

Tom Wesley wrote: /etc/init.d/alsasound start if that works rc-update add alsasound boot i didn't use alsa! my soundblaster is supported by the kernel (as module). my problem is that the /dev/sound directory seems to be gone... i also have no symlink /dev/dsp or so. neither in the

[gentoo-user] tool to manage movie collection

hi i was searching for a tool to manage my movie collection (dvd, divx, ...). it shouldn't be webbased cuz i don't want to install apache on my desktop machine. neither on sourceforge nor on freshmeat i was able to find something that satisfies my needs. any tip is appreciated. cheers, eric

Re: [gentoo-user] Root user password problems

hi i think you should report this to the gentoo bugs team. otherwise more people will also experience this problem... regards, eric Mike Arrison wrote: Paulo, I had this problem too. It came from not being careful enough with the etc-update procedure after upgrading dhcp. I believe that

Re: [gentoo-user] Almost Trashed

how nice! you want to make the big money, huh?! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch slim PCs that were going to be thrown out, if you are interested in setting up a firewall or router this would probably be a good machine for that. My box runs Gentoo and pu away :) I just can't see