[gentoo-user] slow dns resolution

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Persson
ledge, disabled it in modules.conf. Does anybody have any other ideas that might work? Many thanks. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo version of KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts

2005-03-25 Thread Robert Persson
ml files, not pdf files, not sounds. Only images. Probably unrelated to the truetype problem, but I thought i better mention it in case. Any ideas on my truetype problem? (or the konqueror preview one for that matter) Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband A

[gentoo-user] "sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)"

2005-03-27 Thread Robert Persson
ul for any help on this. I need to upgrade because 3.3 has a serious bug that I need to get away from. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kills my computer

2005-03-28 Thread Robert Persson
o.com > Reading Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCR7d/fW48a9PWGkURAgDjAJ4yqgOzAa+txYzsNySNDZDxaxqWVgCgjV0l > yCigOiNzNCbkqFFIqT4/UH0= > =vjpQ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- > g

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)"

2005-03-28 Thread Robert Persson
writing it, which means that the only thing that could, if it was broken, make your system temporarily inaccessible after installing 3.4 would be kdm. On March 27, 2005 12:44 pm, quoth Nick Rout: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 12:37 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > > I am getting tied in knots tryin

[gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
. However "ssh 192.168.1.2" works, while "ssh zebedee" gets me a "connection refused" error. I get the same problem when I try to log in from a remote OSX powerbook. However I did not get this problem when I was running SuSE 9.2. Why can't I use a hostname

[gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
icked the link. There is a bug report for this in the kde-bugzilla - not from a gentoo user AFAIK - but it doesn't look like a widespread problem. Are any other Gentoo users experiencing this? Anyone have a workaround? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer p

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Persson
On March 31, 2005 01:45 pm, quoth A. Khattri: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other > > problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with > > hostnames properly. > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Persson
sr/sbin/sshd manually, after which the script works properly. Robert On March 31, 2005 08:58 pm, quoth Zarick Lau: > Hi, > > On 31/Mar/05, Robert Persson wrote: > > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other > > problems, I am unable to get ssh/ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Persson
On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: > On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > > doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. > > Meanwhile the

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
hout any further configuration. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo version of KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
Solved this by upgrading to KDE 3.4. Robert On March 25, 2005 10:54 pm, quoth Robert Persson: > KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts, either in icons or in kfontpreview. > All I see is an empty white square for the icon or a window with the name > etc. of the font and then a b

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness

2005-04-02 Thread Robert Persson
Thanks once again to you and to Dave Nebinger for the additional help. On April 1, 2005 09:37 am, quoth A. Khattri: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > > ssh -v zebedee showed that "zebedee" was being translated as 127.0.0.1, > > despite what it sa

Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Persson
On April 1, 2005 10:22 am, quoth Robert Persson: > On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > > > When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page > > > doesn't load there a

[gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Persson
When I do "emerge -pvu world" portage tells me that it wants to install mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 installed. I had thought that putting "

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Persson
sier to work with on Linux then this kind of idea won't interest me so much, but for now I am interested because there are so many windows apps I miss, even though I don't miss windows itself one bit. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Persson
nt (such as security fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1? In that case, is there a way to avoid these petty upgrades when I "emerge -u world"? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Persson
On April 3, 2005 09:24 pm, quoth Dion Sole: > Robert Persson wrote: > > It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the "r" > > suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, > > rather than to the package itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Persson
On April 3, 2005 12:18 pm, quoth A. Khattri: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > > When I do "emerge -pvu world" portage tells me that it wants to install > > mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 > > installed. I had t

Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
iledges, but maybe I'm wrong. > > > Best regards > > > ce > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
ding in my current Gentoo installation. Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
y gone completely off-topic, including an interesting discussion about user interface design. I think the problem is less about whining and more about knowing when to change the title of a thread. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg.&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
ry computer lab. For the most part, Gentoo is very straightforward to set up if you have the patience to follow the howtos step-by-step. However some things can still be damned hard, configuring X being one of them. Why not be more open to solutions to these problems? Robert -- Robert Perss

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent postgresql from upgrading

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 05:56 pm, quoth Manuel McLure: > Use > > >dev-db/postgresql-7.4.7-r1 > > in /etc/portage/package.mask or something like >dev-db/postgresql-7.5 if you want to allow bug and security fixes. -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The l

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI X configuration (Was: Duplicate posts from ...)

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 11:11 pm, quoth Richard Fish: > Robert Persson wrote: > >But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair the > >performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple X-configurator that > >does the job of the SuSE or mandra

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Persson
On April 5, 2005 10:56 pm, quoth Ciaran McCreesh: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair > | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Persson
bring their costs down massively and let clients continue to work on their projects in their own time outside of the studio, which can be very useful. Robert -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list