[gentoo-user] New versions of software not in portage

2005-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
What is the polite and acceptable way of pointing out that a package has a newer release then that which is in portage? Bugzilla? -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 12:44:56 up 27 days, 22:27, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.08 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing options?

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
an HP JetDirect card. It works great with no problems and very little configuration. However, you have to make sure your printer supports postscript printing. -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 11:49:28 up 24 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage borked?

2004-02-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage borked?

2004-02-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
with the same issue. Shouldn't the regenworld script fix this? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge error after upgrade

2004-02-07 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
$ emerge /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any ideas on this one? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] DVD audio to Mp3

2003-12-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS recommendations

2003-11-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
18 hours per day, and is behind a DLink firewall. I use dyndns.org and ddclient. It works great and I haven't had a single problem with it yet... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] ID3 tag editor

2003-11-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Does anyone know of a utility to automatically tag mp3's based on filenames? I have used mp3info, but doing all of my untagged mp3s by hand might actually kill me :) Console/ncurses is preferred, but if I have to use a gui I will. Thanks in advance. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

[gentoo-user] Compaq Wireless Adapter

2003-10-29 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
. I have tried to compile in all of the kernel items listed under USB network cards, but none of them are working. Does anyone have any ideas if this even works with Gentoo? Is there something else I can try to make it work? Thanks in advance. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

[gentoo-user] fluxbox background troubles

2003-10-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
-utils, all works again just as it should. Any ideas? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the heck is Bitchx?

2003-10-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
something here, dain bramage or what? $ whereis BitchX BitchX: /usr/bin/BitchX :) -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Spare CPU Cycles

2003-10-06 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] spread out over a few different machines, but I have moved them all to distributed.net... As for why? Who knows. Just chose to stick with distributed.net since my team was doing the same... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Barry MacMahon/Chiltern is out of the office.

2003-09-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:32:22AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 18-09-2003 and will not return until 22-09-2003. I will respond to your message when I return on Tuesday 18th Ok. Someone slap this guy :) -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

[gentoo-user] 6-in-1 card readers

2003-09-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Does anyone know of any 6-in-1 (or more, if need be) media card readers that work with Gentoo? I already purchased an internal model that does not work... Thanks. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MP3s playing too fast.

2003-08-25 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:14:42AM +1000, Dave I wrote: Are these mono mp3s? Does your soundcard support mono streams? Theres a patch for this here http://home.nyu.edu/~gmp216/xmms/ Wonderful! That did the very trick! Thanks! -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org

[gentoo-user] MP3s playing too fast.

2003-08-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
the same result. Plenty of other music mp3s work just fine... Any ideas? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] --resume

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
and xmms-lirc packages, because I don't use either anymore Thanks for the reply! -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] --resume

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
use --resume. How does --resume store where it was at, and how can I tell it to skip lirc? I have tried the --skipfirst, but it still tries to emerge lirc. I have removed all of the installed packages that need lirc... Thanks. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm afraid. :P

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
just noticed the same thing. I removed those 3 packages then emerged them and the perl upgrade. So far all is well :) -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Display, Dual video cards

2003-07-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
is completely separate. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ Start with the HOWTO. If you get stuck, let me know and I will see what I can do. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Servers

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
? I usually use Debian for such a server, but would like to hear thoughts and experiences for those currently using Gentoo. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage packages?

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:35:02PM -0500, Christopher Egner wrote: Where are the downloads from portage kept by default after they are downloaded? The default is /usr/portage/distfiles -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird ebuild

2003-07-06 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
the devs even allow it on portage if someone were to do this? I just use a bash script for this. I chose to use the nightly binary release instead of the CVS, as there tends to be fewer problems... I can send you the script if you want... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird ebuild

2003-07-06 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:16:22PM +, Trevor Gordon wrote: Well, I don't like updating every night because the nightlies frequently introduce new bugs or fail to fix current ones. Every now and then they release one thats stable, relativly bugfree and has all the new features implemented

Re: [gentoo-user] Server application choices?

2003-06-30 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
specific questions on any of the above, let me know... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Server application choices?

2003-06-30 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:35:24PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: proftpd. Tons of options. Config file follows the same style as the Apache configs. Does this have SSL support like ftpd? Thanks for feedback. Yup. http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/docs/faq/linked

[gentoo-user] File deletion problem

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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[gentoo-user] cdparanoia errors

2003-03-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
) System error: Invalid argument Ay ideas? Thanks in advance. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiresless configuration utilities?

2003-03-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
like a charm. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate backup strategies

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
a handful of the Maxtor external firewire drives (60GB models) and they have worked great with Linux and Gentoo. As far as backup software goes, I just usually wrote shell scripts called by cron. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate backup strategies

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
And D-Link DFW-500: http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfw500/ Each with equally great results. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate backup strategies

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
card? Most certainly. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] WMV to MPG?

2003-03-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Anyone know of a tool (or series of tools I guess) that could convert WMV files to standard MPG? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba 2.2.8 build fails on 1.2

2003-03-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:15:56PM +0100, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: i just tried a --update (I use LDAP and CUPS) and get a : checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... no checking whether to use included popt... ./popt checking configure summary... configure: error: summary failure.

Re: [gentoo-user] WMV to MPG?

2003-03-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo - going mad

2003-03-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:12:42PM +, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I'm already having problems with my nvidia card and was wondering whats next. Is gentoo such a difficult distro, or is my knowledge to little? It would help if you could describe the problem a little better :) -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt - IMAP Maildir problems...

2003-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
) subfolder1 (has messages) subfolder2 (has messages) In the above, the messages on folder1 don't show anywhere, but when entering subfolder1 or subfolder2, the messages in them show fine... What flags do the messages have? Does it show a 'N'? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mutt - IMAP Maildir problems...

2003-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
in front of the Gentoo-Users folder. I'm not sure if this is the same problem you are seeing... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt - IMAP Maildir problems...

2003-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
in the format of: INBOX.Folder INBOX.Folder.Subfolder Where technically speaking, Subfolder is not actually UNDER Folder, but Courier treats is that it is... I think, as long as you define every mailbox in your .muttrc, it shouldn't matter where they are. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:30:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have one of these cards? I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this thing working under linux[gentoo]. I have one and it works great. I have yet, however, to get WEP working... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http

Re: [gentoo-user] Orinoco Gold wireless card

2003-03-09 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:54:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you that are using this card successfully, can you give me the low down on which kernel parameters you use, what modifications you make to /etc/pcmcia/config, etc. And do you all use modules? (I've typically

[gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound

2003-03-07 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am currently using gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10 and I see that there is an upgrade to 2.4.20-r1. I have an onboard VIA Sound system: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) that will only work with alsa, which is wonky even at best. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.0.47-r7

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Johnh said: I just emerged this this morning. I updated the passwd and the groups files, like the instructions said. I did a few emerges afterwards and everything worked fine. However, when I try to emerge -p xfree this is what I get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

[gentoo-user] cdparanoia build fail

2003-02-25 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
, Exitcode 127 !!! (no error message) I checked bugs.gentoo.org and nothing is listed. I also tried rsyncing again with the same result... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Creative LiveDrive.

2003-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have a SBLive! card that came with the Creative LiveDrive (extra ports and volume switches mounted in a cd drive bay). I am trying to make it work with lirc and xmms. Has anyone had such success? -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org msg01680/pgp0.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Creative LiveDrive.

2003-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:16:02AM +1000, Adrian Head wrote: Can we get more information please? Are you using ALSA or OS sound drivers in the Kernel? What parts of the Sound Drive do you want working? Headphones, MIDI interfaces, Optical Out, IR remote? Wow. I'm sorry. My hands

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with kernel compilation

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:16:16AM -0500, Johnh wrote: I don't compile kernels very often. Once I get my system nice I usually don't fuss with it. However, just recently, I decided to tweak my kernel. Since my last compilation, I have emerged a lot of new packages. My typical procedure

Re: [gentoo-user] cvs server

2003-02-12 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html If it's not in there, you don't need it :) -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list