Re: [gentoo-user] Merry Christmas

2003-12-24 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Happy holidays to all, including those that observe holidays besides XMas. Yes even the other athiests and agnostics :) Jeff. On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:38, Oliver Lange wrote: > Merry Christmas to all of you ! > > Have a good time, and thanks to all for your gracious > help and patience with off

Re: [gentoo-user] I hate computers

2003-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDonald
> >>Is your sound card integrated into the mobo? > > > > yup. > > That makes more sense. I refuse to get a mobo that has anything more than an IDE and > floppy controller integrated into it. well you're very noble :) this was a 150$ machine i use as a file server, so i don't care too much. jef

Re: [gentoo-user] I hate computers

2003-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDonald
yup. On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:03, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Jeff MacDonald wrote: > >>>So, Windows uses only the internal speaker and Linux uses only the > >>>external speakers. > >> > >>I wasn't aware the internal speaker could produce anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] I hate computers

2003-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDonald
> > > > So, Windows uses only the internal speaker and Linux uses only the > > external speakers. > > I wasn't aware the internal speaker could produce anything more than different beeps > ;) Is > this perhaps a laptop? Oddly enough , this isn't the case. I have an IBM aptiva running FreeBSD,

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
yup, that found it, thanks. On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:26, Ric Messier wrote: > Is it still ~ masked? If you ACCEPT_KEYWODS="~x86" emerge -pU postgresql > does it pick it up? > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jeff MacDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
yeah, i see it there now in my portage tree, but for some reason it's not getting picked up when i do emerge -Up world. anyhints ? jeff. On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 03:09, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Curious, when will pgsql 7.4 be making it into the portage t

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
is the right way, because then it will download the > new version, and its 99% sure it will be correct, because not many stuff > has a diffrent installation method in a newer version, and if it doesent > work, you are so lucky that you can unmerge :) > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:33,

[gentoo-user] PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, Curious, when will pgsql 7.4 be making it into the portage tree. I know i can download it and rename the ebuild file, but i'd rather just do it the "real way" :) Thanks. Jeff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-head

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff MacDonald
> I will only be doing text-based work on the smaller monitor. There is no reason for > me to > kill resources running X twice. I have a problem of not getting work done because > there > are DVDs I'd rather watch. This way, I can have a movie going on the big monitor and > be > getting my wo

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeff MacDonald
MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 03 November 2003 01:43, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > I ran kicker while in Gnome.. > > > > I got this, > > > > kicker: relocation error: /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined > > symbol: _ZN9Q GroupBox10setEnabled

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-02 Thread Jeff MacDonald
same error with root and root didn't have a .kde until i tried this, this afternoon. Jeff. On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 14:45, Jim wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:21 pm, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was using kde this morning, and i was dragging a menu item f

[gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-02 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I was using kde this morning, and i was dragging a menu item from the K menu, to my panel. And suddenly the panel disapeared. Didn't come back. So I dropped out of x, and tried to restart. X came up without KDE and the message "could not start kdeinit" came up, or something similar to that.

Re: [gentoo-user] IE on Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Jeff MacDonald
if all else fails, try vmware jeff. On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:16, Ian Truelsen wrote: > Has anyone managed to get Internet Exploder to install under Linux? I > want to be able to test web pages without booting into Windows. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] runat ?

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff MacDonald
What's wrong with crontab ? Jeff. On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:46, raptor wrote: > someone to know console command so that I can run "wget" processes at specified time > ... I need something easy..f.e. > > runat -t 02:00 wget -c .. > > i mean not putting stuff in crontab > > > -- > [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] iTunes on linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I use kaudiocreator, it's simple does ogg and cddb. That's all I really need. Jeff. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:59, gabriel wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:35, Eric Marchionni wrote: > > gabriel wrote: > > >if you want cd ripping and you're on a kde platform, k3b is pretty damn cool. > > > > > h

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

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
'm using the ati all-in-wonder radeon. since i use the tv features of > the card far more often than the 3d features, putting up with the > cryptic instructions from the gatos folks to install drm just wasn't > worth it. > > > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:10, Jeff MacDonald

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

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Which radeon do you have ? I have a 7500 and quake 3 works just dandy in linux for me. JEff. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:02, gabriel wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:48, Eric Livingston wrote: > > Does that include work as well? I'm really curious about folks who have > > managed to convert to Lin

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

2003-10-21 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I use Gentoo 99% of the time, but occasionaly have to startup vmware with XP for the occasional webpage that will only cooperate with IE. Oh, and I'm gonna get lynched for this, but I actually like a couple of the Microsoft games out there, like Rally Challenge or flight sim. So yes, there is an X

Re: [gentoo-user] usb printing.

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
he host controller? For USB 2.0, > do: > modprobe ehci-hcd > > and for USB 1.0 you'll need one of the following: > > modprobe uhci > modprobe usb-uhci > modprobe usb-ohci > > depending on your motherboard. > > - richard > > On Th

Re: [gentoo-user] usb printing.

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Done and done. I checked all the modules, etc. rc-updated hotplug etc, no go. Just doesn't seem to want to see my printer. Jeff On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:42, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 22:17, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a HP Deskjet

[gentoo-user] usb printing.

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I have a HP Deskjet 932 c [usb] I have the USB stuff compiled as modules and when i do modprobe usbcore modprobe printer they both load fine. When i plug in my printer, nothing interesting happens in /var/log/messages or /dev/usb Anywhere else i should be looking ? THanks. Jeff. -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution threaded view

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Curious, what did you move from ? Jeff. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 14:37, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just moved myself over to GNOME, mainly out of curiousity, but have > started to like it quite a lot and am using Evolution for email etc. Is > there a simple way I can: > a) Mark all m

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Mobility Radeon 7500 and DRI

2003-10-08 Thread Jeff MacDonald
kernel On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:08, Bernd Stapf wrote: > Hi, > > >>I did leave agpart in the config. > > I did the same thing. Only agpart in config. Everything works fine until > > ok, I'm going to test this when I'm at home tonight. > Just for sure: agpart as module or in the kernel? > > Bap

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Mobility Radeon 7500 and DRI

2003-10-07 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I left Xree DRI support totally out of my kernal menuconfig, thus leaving out radeon as well. I did leave agpart in the config. Jeff. On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:52, Bernd Stapf wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Make sure that you are not compiling DRM as part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Mobility Radeon 7500 and DRI

2003-10-07 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Make sure that you are not compiling DRM as part of the kernel. Use the VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge xfree-drm after you've made and installed your new kernel/modules. The 2.4.22 vanilla sources compile DRM for xfree 4.2, so if you're running 4.3 it will conflict. I did this to myself a few days ag

[gentoo-user] vmware config script

2003-10-06 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, When i try to boot up and run vmware the system tells me that i need to run the vmware-config.pl script. I do this and everything works just fine. However, if i reboot my machine i need to run it again. Everytime. Any idea's. ? Thanks. ps: I was converted from FreeBSD/XP to Gentoo about 1