[gentoo-user] Wireless a nogo

2005-01-13 Thread ejbr
Trying valiantly to set up wireless. I'm at the point now where I get the following: *Configuring wireless network for eth1 /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var: command not found *eth1 does

[gentoo-user] emerge lists too many programs

2004-02-15 Thread ejbr
E.g., emerge -p xine lists xmms as a download. I don't want xmms, and if I don't have xmms, I don't think I need flac. How do I get only xine and its required libraries and codecs, and skip the unrelated stuff? I read the man page, but if the answer's there, I missed it. Thanks. -- Ed

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE failed

2004-02-10 Thread ejbr
On Feb 10, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti (lähetysaika maanantai, 9. helmikuuta 2004 21:30): I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged

[gentoo-user] KDE failed

2004-02-09 Thread ejbr
I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so I installed 3.1.5. Now, kde won't start. The Nvidia splash screen

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE failed

2004-02-09 Thread ejbr
On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Kevin Hanson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread ejbr
On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:32 am, Oliver Lange wrote: For upgrading *all* packages that are installed on my box, i'm using this one: emerge --oneshot -uU `qpkg -nc -I` -v -p after checking what's going to be installed, enter the same command again, but this time without the -p option.

Re: [gentoo-user] System update

2003-12-11 Thread ejbr
On Thursday 11 December 2003 08:18 pm, Oliver Lange wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge --oneshot -uU `qpkg -nc -I` -v -p H - dunno if I'll ever understand this emerge business. When I ran the above, all sorts of stuff showed up as N that I don't need or want. E.g, it wants to

[gentoo-user] Now, grub!!?? (Was: emerge -u portage wants everything?)

2003-11-24 Thread ejbr
On Monday 24 November 2003 01:07 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:23:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me that I should either ignore the portage update now, or emerge only portage. I don't know whether the former os OK, and don't know how to do the latter.

[gentoo-user] Installation stalls at wget

2003-11-22 Thread ejbr
I'm installing Gentoo on a laptop, and got to the emerge system step. Everything went smoothly until the system got to wget: creating po/Makefile cd . autoconf /bin/sh line 1: autoconf: command not found make: *** [configure] Error 127 !!! ERROR: net-misc/wget-1.9-r1 failed !!! Function

[gentoo-user] Contents of /var/cache/edb/world

2003-11-21 Thread ejbr
Just ran emerge sync. Above file has: net-ftp/gftp media-sound/zinf app-text/ghostscript media-sound/alsa-driver sys-kernel/gentoo-sources net-www/mplayerplug-in net-print/cups and nothing else. Seems I should be worried, but I'm not sure. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. -- Ed Jabbour

[gentoo-user] Cannot ope Konsole, etc.

2003-10-18 Thread ejbr
Recompiled 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 only to add i2c modules - everything else is unchanged. Rebooted, and tried to open Konsole (as a user) and got Unable to open a suitable terminal device. Looked at /dev/pty* and they look alright, I think. If root logs in to KDE, Konsole works. There's a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe

2003-08-24 Thread ejbr
Anyone on this list gone to Europe w/ a laptop? Going to Italy and France. I have an IBM T30. I know I'll need a plug adapter, but don't know if I need a voltage converter. I don't think so, but thought I better check. And, if anyone's used an internet cafe in Paris or Rome, charges?

Re: [gentoo-user] using Alt-F? to switch between consoles

2003-08-19 Thread ejbr
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I don't remember if it was this way with RedHat or Slackware, but with Gentoo, I can only use the left Alt key when switching between consoles. How do I make it so I can use either the left or the right Alt key?