On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Graham Murray wrote:
I disagree. Reply to all is (normally) the correct way of sending a
reply to a mailing list. Using 'reply' should send a private email to
the poster of the message. If the mail client is 'doing the right
thing', then it will just send the message to the
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
I emerge/updated world a couple of days ago. xmms 1.2.10 no longer
handled pls streaming. It wouldn't even respond to the old hack of
downloading the .pls file and opening it on your drive with xxms. The
correspondence on
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian K wrote:
I haven't seen any pictures of this done, can you maybe point me to a skin or
something?
Basically I want it to look a lot like Windows XP's, with a nice artsy twist.
Thanks again and everyone!
Here's a few 'themes':
http://yippi.hypermall.com/gdm/index.shtml
and
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
kdm allows pics - click your pic and type your login (however it _has_
been broken on my machine for a while, the pix no longer show up)
i am pretty sure gdm will do the same. it'd be unlike those gnome guys
to let kde have a feature they didn't have, and
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Joseph wrote:
Did anybody experience this strange behavior?
FYI:
If you look a little closer the page is garbled and on the right side (you
have to scroll). This happened with earlier mozilla-builds on kerneltrap.
Don't know if it's a bug or not, but probably is...
Best
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Heinz Sporn wrote:
The reason why so many people literally hate Ati when it comes to Linux
is rather simple: their Linux driver support is - simply put - weak, on
the edge of not existing whereas Nvidia was rather friendly to the
community right from the start.
From the start
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Zbynek Houska wrote:
Not im my case, directory /usr/portage/distfiles doesn't exist at all
(as system has been bootstrapped)
bash-2.05b# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ROOT 1.9G 873M 953M 48% /
This seems to imply that you
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
It may (must) have occured, and I probably missed it. Is there a way to
switch that now?
You could just delete the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and it will give
you the opportunity to import settings from mozilla again. I think that
there's a
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Zbynek Houska wrote:
hey, I omited to say that I use an UML patched kernel and then I boot
sirectly to it.
Ok, but you still have to go through the same process, untar-ing the
stageX-ARCH-200X.X.tar.bz2 file and the portage-snapshot-file where
appropriate (i.e. the would-be
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any
secure way of using it?
You could (as root) copy the mit-magic cookie to root's directory (/root).
This is usually the recommended way, from a security point of view. X
clients scan the
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by
su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error.
E233: cannot open display
I used to be able to do this, but there was a tightening of security
at some point, and now I cannot. I am
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Haan wrote:
Google is step #1 for every issue. I'm going to see if the nForce
drivers from nVidia do the trick - too bad tey don't yet support
2.6.10.
Ok, as someone else suggested, it might also be a faulty chip/motherboard.
Best regards
Peter K
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Joseph wrote:
I just emerge it.
Makes no difference.
Ok, then. Perhaps the beta acrobat reader is your only option. If you're
sure that the pdf-file is a valid one; you may have encountered a
distiller bug...
Best regards
Peter K
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, J. Patrick Campbell wrote:
i boot from livecd 2004.3
i mount root, boot, proc, turn on swap and chroot.
then i run grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
this runs ok with no errors.
on reboot it just scrolls GRUB.
i'm stuck!
thanks,
Did you copy /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab before doing
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Joseph wrote:
I have a problem printing document created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0
PDF document, version 1.4
Are there any solution besides emerging Acrobat Reader?
Can you see it on-screen with gv?
Best regards
Peter K
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Haan wrote:
If I can't find a solution which let's me use the onboard NIC (and I
can't believe there isn't one), I could throw the 3c900 back in. One
thing I didn't like was that it became eth1 because the onboard NIC
continued to show-up, even after disabling it in
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Haan wrote:
Good idea as an alternative. However, I burned a Knoppix-based distro
called Kanotix-64 and it found and configured my NIC out of the box.
If it can do it, why can't gentoo?
Hmmm... I'm taking a wild guess here... Maybe Kanotix-64 have integrated
binary
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Joseph wrote:
Ver. 8.15 was just released on Feb.22/05 so we have to wait till it
appear in portage.
The newest version in portage is 7.07.1-r8
No, ghostscript-afpl is available; 'emerge -s ghostscript' reveals:
* app-text/ghostscript-afpl
Latest version available: 8.15
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, George Roberts wrote:
The other day I set out to find a way to turn my monitor off, for when I get
distracted while away from my computer.
I followed the instructions at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor.
But this was not successful :-( . The
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote:
This is a perfect example of why the 'reply to' thing was originally broken,
recently fixed, and today reset back to the broken state.
One person posts an OT message that is quite easily resolved by doing a
simple google search.
But since the 'reply to' is
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Jans Han Xie wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:06:06 +0800, Qiangning Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have started a long-time emerging in an xterm. For some reason i
want to restart X, but I don't want to intercept the emerging process.
Is it possible that I suspend it and
Hi!
I'm in need of updating my scsi dvd-drive (pioneer 305S) with a new
firmware. The flash updater needs to be run from dos but the suggested
bootdisk is a windows millenium bootdisk for my scsi card driver. The .exe
file that creates the bootdisk is a gui program, thus needing window env.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Dirk Raeder wrote:
I had no trouble accessing my dvd-drive from within wine. Did you create a
symlink from /dev/floppy to your wine-directory where all other drives are
symlinked? That should do the trick.
Nope, doesn't seem to work for me. I get a small error window that
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Nathan Pinkerton wrote:
or... you could use the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)
it has DOS utilities on it (as well as a host of other things)
Thanks, but I can't use a boot cd since the instructions for flashing
specifically states that there shouldn't be a
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Tom Wesley wrote:
Actually never mind wine, there are image files there that can be written
with dd.
Thanks, I'll try these but they unfortunately don't seem to contain scsi
drivers... Oh, well, why make things easy? ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, fire-eyes wrote:
I've never heard of them being wrong, as for guaranteed, not sure I'd
go that far.
I don't remember hyperthreading being enabled for pentium 4 mobile chips
but I could be wrong.
I'm pretty sure you're going to be enabling hyperthreading (HT), not
SMP,
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Possibly, but the examples in Daniel Drake's udev rules howto all use it,
so I prefer to play safe.
Ok, thanks.
Best regards
Peter K
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Hi!
I'm trying to make sense of the udev rules (which doesn't seem that hard)
and the scripts that go along with it (harder). What I'm trying to do is
create a symlink between my scsi dvdrom /dev/sr0 and /dev/cdrom +
/dev/dvd. The 'cdsymlinks.sh' script doesn't seem to help much and I'm
barely
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote:
I'm trying to make sense of the udev rules (which doesn't seem that hard)
and the scripts that go along with it (harder). What I'm trying to do is
create a symlink between my scsi dvdrom /dev/sr0 and /dev/cdrom +
/dev/dvd. The 'cdsymlinks.sh' script
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Replying to myself... I created a /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules file
with just 'KERNEL=sr0, SYMLINK=cdrom dvd' which seemed to do the
trick. Would there be a problem with this setup?
You should really also have a NAME=%k in there... but if it
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Marcio Conceicao wrote:
How I can enable mouse cursor in X11 like Fedora and other new distributions.
I think this is new feature of Xorg and it is not enabled by default.
I dont speaking of custom cursors.
Like that i put in.
Hi!
Yesterday, I discovered that my root accounts .bash_history was of size 0
(zero). This can be a sign of a hacked computer. However, taking it
off-line and doing some basic forensic research revealed nothing. This
doesn't mean that the computer isn't compromised of course. This happened
right
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
Is that a reasonable stab at how we could both be right (assuming that
we are in fact both right ;-) )?
XFree ( Xorg) has been able to auto-config since XFree 4.x.
Best regards
Peter K
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
TV applications are still jumpy at full screen and glxgears still takes a
dive at full screen so 3d isn't working yet. Compared to what I've just
been I think getting that to work will be a doddle... With the help of you
kind lot that is :)
What does
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
I get this...
fglrx 231104 9
nvidia_agp 5788 0
agpgart27432 1 nvidia_agp
8139too19840 0
mii 3968 1 8139too
I don't think that's right. Afaik, nvidia does not do any
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
The Cell has been vapourware for a while. However, the STI group
(Sony/Toshiba/IBM) have recently been granted a patent for it, so there
is actual info available now. Nicholas Blachford has a very good
writeup at
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Henrik Andersson wrote:
I'm trying to run xorg with the latest ati-drivers @ 1600x1200. When
using the 'fglrx' module, all I get is a out of sync message from my
monitor (viewsonic vp201s). Other screen resolutions can be applied but
the monitor has 1600x1200 as optimal
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Henrik Andersson wrote:
videocard/d-sub d-sub-dvi-converter - dvi/monitor
You don't have a dvi-cable handy (assuming you have dvi-out on gfx card)?
There could be some problem with the converter. Normally X, via the gfx
card can probe the monitor with the EDID protocol.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote:
Thanks Heinz,
did a emerge sync and found 8.8.5 which is xorg 6.8.0 compatible.
Everything looks good now. Just one dissapointment, I had to disable
Composite extension to get DRI :(
Afaicu, composite is an xorg extension (new for 6.8), which
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
Hello Holly,
Saturday, January 22, 2005, 1:32:50 PM, you wrote:
HB OK, this sucks.
It's getting to me like that too.
HB Given that fglrx is loaded (it did load after the reboot, right?), this
HB should not be happening.
It is loaded yes.
HB 1)
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
Well I copied the relevant sections over from the XFree conf to my
xorg.cong and I saw no change. So I used the whole thing and still no
change. And I did set pseudo clolour to off.
What do mean with 'still no change'? What does the logs say (Xorg
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
Well nothing seems to have changed, I still can't run tvtime and xawtv
still won't run in overlay mode. KDETV works in a small window but drops
frames and get jittery the larger the window is. I think I need 3D
acceleration but don't know how to
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
PK What does fglrxinfo
gentoo root # fglrxinfo
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified`
Error: unable to open display :0
PK and xvinfo say?
gentoo root # xvinfo
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: No
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
* DD-CD-Direct Rendering Manager = No **IMPORTANT**
I've also got this compiled in and it works fine, for me...
Best regards
Peter K
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Tony Boom wrote:
I have an ATI Radeon 9600xt with the new drivers installed. Is there any
special configuration I need to edit to get the best form my card?
If I remember correctly you need to set pseudo color visuals to 'off' if
you want xv to work. At least that was the
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ryan Sims wrote:
Got it all working, seems to be ok, and cedega is much happier than it
was. I tried xcompmgr, and my desktop got really wierd; as if the
background was a screenshot of how the desktop looked; i.e. window
positions and all. Could be my fault, haven't had
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
you're not using the radeon framebuffer driver as well are you? I
posted about this on another thread. Basically you can't use RADEON_FB
with the fglrx.
Yep, I saw your mail... Thanks!
Best regards
Peter K
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Hi!
I'm having problems with xdm and xfce4. Two instances of:
-
PID PPID
user 8946 8920 0 Jan15 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/xfce4/xinitrc
user 8976 8946 0 Jan15 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/xfce4/xinitrc
Hi!
I'm running an xdm/xfce4 combination (I tried gdm first but I don't like
it's dependencies). One of my problems is that the startup-script is run
twice:
petekarl 8494 8468 0 13:09 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/xfce4/xinitrc
petekarl 8524 8494 0 13:09 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, William H. Carlin, Jr. wrote:
I have encountered and problem with the latest ebuild for x11-libs/gtk
+-2.4.14
Prior to emerging this ebuild I updated to the latest version of gcc
(3.3.5). The x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.14 ebuild is either assuming I have gcc
3.3.4 (hardcoded
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 13:18, Peter Karlsson wrote:
Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default session?
I think the file is /etc/rc.conf
# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Trond Danielsen wrote:
USE=-bonobo -fam -tcpd should remove the ram, portmap and bonobo
deps.
gnome-base/gnome-light gives you a barebone gnome install, only enough
to run gnome apps. You could take a look at thatone.
Ok, thanks! I'll try that.
Best regards
Peter K
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Trond Danielsen wrote:
1. /etc/rc.conf :
XSESSION=XFce4 # Think this is the right name
Oh, I had XSESSION=xfce4 (all lowercase)...
2. ~/.xsession:
#!/bin/bash
exec startxfce4
I had an xsession which I copied from my ~/.xinitrc, although
Hi!
I would like to build use gdm as my display manager but I don't want to
install gconf (nor scrollkeeper,orbit,bonobo,portmap,gnome-vfs,fam,
anything gnome-related). Is this possible? Would emerge --nodeps gdm
work? Also, there are quite a few gnome applications that I would like to
use, i.e.
Is there someone who can tell me how to make xfce4 the default session?
Best regards
Peter K
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