> So all I want is 'login name' and 'password' entry boxes and the
> 'session type' menu that was taken away
GDM's got just that - with a couple more options (configuration,
shutdown menu) -- and it's heavily theme-able, so you can probably
find something appropriate for you in the gdm-themes
> you can try:
>
> #mount -oremount,ro /
ummm... shouldn't that be "rw", not "ro"?
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> Anyway, at least I now know to stop looking. I guess I either change the
> source or roll back to an older version.
>
> Or does anyone know of any interesting alternatives to XDM and KDM that
> I should look at?
gdm? entrance?
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> > 3. GD hears UE tell him he did everything wrong.
>
> 3a GD runs to manager and cries (there is no crying in software).
> manager tells UE to go [away] and leave the GD alone.
...and this is different from the software testers/SQA/QA folks that
are employed by said manager (assuming the GD is
> > tar does have one drawback that may or nay not matter to you -- it needs
> > somewhere to put the tarball. The obvious answer is to put it on your
> > new, blank, drive.
>
> It doesn't need to create a tarball file at all. By default, tar uses
> stdout, you need the -f option to use a file, s
> Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
> easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
> re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
> in a particular directory.
hmmm... I wonder what this is, then?
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/c
> but what package is
> updatedb/locate part of? Should I go for slocate instead?
Those commands are also provided by slocate, so go for it.
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> > No wonder changes to the registry are so often needed on
> > Windows machines in order to configure advanced behaviour.
>
> I think the registry is just pure evil - a great place for
> virii/worms/spyware to hide stuff...
I always get a kick out of this kind of thing: bashing the Windows
regi
> Make that 8 copies now...
You're not the only one -- I've received a copy every fifteen minutes
for the last few hours - and it wasn't just his...
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> > We are beings
> > designed to work naturally from symbols, signs, and icons; not terse textual
> > messages.
> This is
> why symbols and analogies are not good and dangerous in this case. Most
> errors of inexperienced users can be explained by this. And if you
> really understood the concept
> The 'problem' is, that 2.6 favours 'nice' processes and penalises CPU-hungry
> or 'not nice' processes. This is why you should not renice X with 2.6.
There were also rather significant changes to the schedulers in 2.6 -
I believe that's more likely to be the cause of this effect.
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> gdesklets in the menubar. if i try to run gdesklets
> start
> /..path_to_some_display.info i get this:
That's probably because you need to start gdesklets in two steps:
1) Run 'gdesklets start', and wait for the command to return you to the prompt.
2) Run 'gdesklets open some.display' (not,
> [ebuild U ]kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 [1.3.2] +alsa +arts
I have to wonder if nobody else noticed the fact that this is an
update to an already-installed instance of arts?
Uninstall arts ('emerge unmerge arts'), add '-arts' to your USE flags,
and run 'emerge --newuse world' since arts is us
> and if he wants to use java?
>
> There are enough reasons, for java and against bl/ibm.
>
> And it is very annoying, that for example ooo needs bl-java. Very annoying.
> Sickening annoying.
OOO only depends on >=virtual/jre-1.4.1 (at least, the
openoffice-1.1.3.ebuild on my machine does), whic
> Ah, so it was supposed to have pulled it in...
...not necessarily: when I run "emerge -pvtDe grip", I don't see yelp
in the output... but I'm not entirely sure why. Might be because of my
USE flags, or something.
I'm also curious if you've got gnome-base/gnome or
gnome-base/gnome-light installe
> While I am at it, anyone know what the problem with the grip help menu is
> on gentoo?
There's nothing wrong with grip or its help menu. Do you happen to
have gnome-extra/yelp installed? I'm fairly certain the problem here
is that you're missing the Gnome help browser...
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> just look at the gdm configuration, nothing to do with skins.
The GDM theme you choose has to support it, though. Otherwise, even if
you've set the "Show user images" thingy, they won't show up.
There's only two or three themes that handle this in the gdm-themes
ebuild, IIRC.
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:22:34 -0300, Raphael Melo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know why, but it is only happening in one of my Gentoo
> machines. Perhaps I should cross compile it.
Check MAKEOPTS in /etc/make.conf on the problem machine - it's
possible that it's got "j0" instead of "-j0" in
> That way, both the admin and the users could be comfortable.
...or - at the very least - we'd have a quick way to answer folks with
questions about this sort of thing... ;)
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> > Actually, you can. Gnome -does- require an EVMH compatible
> > windowmanager, however any such will do. openbox, kwin, metacity are
> > the ones I've tried personally.
Huh. I didn't realize that support for that was still kicking around.
That's good to know.
> My fave is fluxbox and I run t
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:33:23 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for your comments on the 2nd and third points of my original post.
> I'm still struggling with emerging sawfish. The first question (the most
> important) remains unanswered. Has anybody had problems with seting
> > so can I use IPTables or similar to recognise if it is being connected
> > to via ssh.server.co.uk on port 443 and forward the traffic to port
> > 22? If www.server.co.uk:443 is used apache gets the traffic? Or is
> > this (As I suspect) Impossible?
>
> You can look at http://sourceforge.net/p
> Where are you getting this from? According to the Activision support
> (and the Id Software page):
> And on a personal note, my bf can play Doom 3 (under Windows; I can't
> get it to run, myself) on HQ settings with an ATI 9600 Pro
...HQ isn't Ultra... there's Low, Medium, High, and Ultra Qua
> There is no game out there that uses 256 of onboard graphics ram.
I take it you haven't bothered looking at the requirements for Doom3,
huh? In the highest quality mode, it _requires_ a 512MB video card --
basically because the textures are all loaded uncompressed...
...it's silly...
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> I personally don't like the /usr/src/linux link either, but I don't think it
> will be going away any time soon.
...and, really, it would be better for ebuilds/configure scripts to
check /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build to find the sources... but not
many do yet...
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> how does one get esync? i searched portage and it came up with nothing
> and its not already installed on my system
emerge esearch
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I just ran into this myself, and it looks as though somebody mangled
/usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass, by leaving it like this:
if [ $CROSSCOMPILE -eq 1 ]
then
else
...
fi
...which isn't valid. I just added the following line:
echo -n ""
...between the "then" and "else" (on a
>How can I tell if it's loaded opengl correctly?
I'd be rather shocked if this was a problem caused by opengl, but you
can check with "glxinfo" or "xdpyinfo", IIRC.
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:19:53 +, George Bingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hey guys, Thanks,
>
> Tried the suggestions about the ServerLayout section, I'd had
> similar entries in there before, still nothing happening to the other
> monitor when I launch X, no errors seem to be generated
> sys-devel/gcc -~x86
> Is it normal or my fault ?
Looks like it's your fault, assuming the first line quoted is a copy &
paste from package.keywords: you don't need the "-" before "~x86" - in
other words, it should read:
sys-devel/gcc ~x86
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> Nothing. But note that cron will mail the output to the job owner
> automatically, so there's no need to pipe the output to mail or
> sendmail unless your system isn't set up to get email to the job owner
> to your email address. (E.g., if you run it as root, you ought to
> have root aliased to
> I was looking for a script that will sync the portage tree and send by
> email the list of softwares that to be updated automatically. I did not
> find so during the last weekend and borrowed some codes from few sites
> on the Internet and build it.
What's wrong with just:
emerge -upv --nos
> That command doesn't work.
>
> I want to use some automatic procedure to generate xorg.conf because gentoo
> set up my machine automatically and , I dare say, in an "original" way. I
> mean that for instance it selected a display with a resolution of 1400x1050
> never heard of before, I must adm
> vdvi> Is there any way to make an xorg.conf file using the default
> configurations
> vdvi> detected by gentoo? Any special command to do it
Try running
X -configure
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> (==) Using config file: "//xorg.conf"
Welp, that definitely proves that all of those changes you made to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf were useless, since they were being overridden by
the xorg.conf in /.
So it looks like you'll probably want to get rid of /xorg.conf, and
put one of the suggested ones ba
> What directory are you looking in? If /etc/X11, look in /etc, if in
> /etc, look in /etc/X11. Or look in the log file to see what config file
> it is using. But there must be one somewhere, as X does not load on
> "air", as it were.
... or you can check in /var/log/Xorg.*.log for a line that loo
> The thing that fascinates me with this ATI driver business is although I
> can't get it to work, it doesn't seem to cock anything up either. I've cut
> bits out of xorg.conf, put bits in, changed this, changed that, I even
> completely changed xorg.conf for one someone on here sent me probably fr
> | !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-custom' not
> specified:
> | !!!None
The problem's more than likely being caused by the '-custom' at the
end of your ebuild name. Try changing it to
nethack-custom-3.4.3.ebuild, instead, and see if that clears up yo
> It seems to me it fails on x86/glibc-2.1
> I'm using sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1
I think this assumption is wrong (although it may be -me- who's
wrong... ), but I have a feeling it's 'cuz you're trying to run
this as a normal user, or you don't have X running.
Try running it under X, eithe
> man, i almost switched from flux and this program made me keep it, its
> that good. i can have my menu's the way i want them now and i dont have
> to write anything! thanks again for tell about it.
Glad to be of service -- and it _does_ sometimes pay to read the GWN... ;)
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> | That's what the F2 key is for if you want to see the text messages
> | during any particular boot, because you suspect there might be some
> | problem, F2 switches from "silent" mode to "verbose" mode, revealing the
> | messages.
...or, even better, change
BOOTSPLASH_STOP_ON_ERROR="no"
t
> i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it
> got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and
It's in /etc/conf.d/clock
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> On the CD there is a setup.sh script but when I try to run it I get:
> bash: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
Try - as dumb as it sounds - "sh ./setup.sh" -- that might work.
You might've also mounted the CD with noexec...
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> Yes, it does but!!!
>
> It downloads 433,809 bytes but when I view the file it contains zero bytes.
>
> I deleted the original file and the new one reappears but zero bytes.
...which isn't surprising, since you're only redirecting the output of
wget to your file, and not saving the image prope
> guess ill have to look into the forums when i have more time...
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050110-newsletter.xml
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83365&highlight=denu
I _knew_ I'd seen it somewhere... ;)
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> too bad flux doesnt have something like that where you can select
> what you want to go into the menu. it rocks
Search the archives/forums for x11-misc/denu -- it's pretty slick.
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> I'd prefer to rebuild the package(s) exhibiting incorrect deps.
You could try running
/usr/sbin/fixpackages
on your binary package server...it _may_ end up fixing the
dependencies in your binary packages... (I can't guarantee it, but
looking at the output it produces, it would make sense...)
> i don't think just changing the ports could work.
...and, based on what you say next, this wouldn't help anyway:
> the way we had it set up before was that the smtp address was just
> relaying through smtp.comcast.net, that is what they are blocking, they
> can receive mail fine but anything th
> does anyone know if this is capatible with the directCD's made with
> Adaptec's windows software?
Yes. I've used discs formatted using Roxio DirectCD, as well as Nero
InCD and one other program whose name escapes me at the moment...
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> > Could someone tell me what I would have to do to get the read-write
> > access to my UDF formatted CDs?
You need an additional patch for the kernel to get R/W UDF support...
It's referred to as "packet writing"... try this out for more info:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Writing_on_CD-R
> an ATI AIW-Radeon 9200 64MB AGP (that I haven't bothered trying to get
> working in Linux);
...whoops... that should've been "that I haven't even bothered trying
to get the fancy TV stuff working in Linux, but everything else works
great"...
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> And you normally can't have two graphic cards in one box. There might be
> some weird way though to have both an AGP card and a PCI one installed
> but I wouldn't bet on that.
This is horribly inaccurate: I currently have 4 in my desktop at home.
One built-in video card on the motherboard (AGP,
> Try copying /usr/portage/gnome-base/gconf/gconf-1.0.8-r5.ebuild to
> /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 and retrying the clean operation.
...or just open /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 in a text editor
(like nano), and see what's wrong on line 27... that might
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> >I use syslog-ng on my Gentoo box. It works well except one
> >problem: Every time I reboot I found the /var/log/messgaes file's
> >permission was set to 0600. Since I want all users in root group can
> >read it, I have to chmod g+r /var/log/messages again and again. So how
> >can I make its
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2036 lists
> some drivers for it
qc-usb is not the same as qc-usb-messenger: qc-usb is for the Logitech
QuickCam Web (and similar models, like the Lego webcam that you get
with the VisionCommand expansion for the Robotics Invention
Sy
>The website that had the drivers for my quickcam messenger has
> gone offline. I am stuck now with a camera i know works in linux but
> has no drivers. You can imagine my pain as I type this and it just
> sits on my monitor mocking me daily. If someone has the drivers from
> this guy/gals
> /sbin/runscript.sh: line 7: Set: command not found
There's probably an incorrectly capitalized 'S' in this file, on the
line specified...?
(probably should be 'set', not 'Set')
...or it might be in /var/lib/init.d/depcache...?
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> What do u mean, James... that as long as I don't have any gnome package
> installed I can't make my fonts better?
Not quite -- it's just a whole heck of a lot easier to deal with if
you've got bits of Gnome installed so you can easily configure your
GTK apps to look prettier than they do by defa
> I like artwiz-fonts but apart from that I'm using them because they are the
> only fonts which seem good renderered to me, the point about firefox that
> seems strange to me is that even the menu' and toolbars fonts (which are not
> configurable) are bad-rendered, maybe it's really a problem of g
> I remember someting about terminal ctrl codes freezing output in one of
> my linux books but cannot find it again. I could be wrong but I suspect
> I just have to ctrl - something to unlock it.
If you did hit CTRL+S, then hit CTRL+Q to unlock it.
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