Re: [gentoo-user] Broken kdm

2003-10-16 Thread jsmith
Quoting Fred Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:19 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: Fred, Do you have this line at the end of /etc/rc.conf? XSESSION=kde-3.1 It was kde. changing to kde-3.1 made no difference. I'm leaving the net for a few days, but will check into

Re: [gentoo-user] cups server help

2003-10-13 Thread jsmith
Quoting Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm about to start throwing stuff! I can't figure out how to set up my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on Gentoo#1 so that I can use its printer from Gentoo#2 I've followed a couple of howto's without results and would appreciate some help from someone who

[gentoo-user] possible solution

2003-07-15 Thread jsmith
[quote] OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I created, I took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my baselayout!. Now all I get isinit # when booting. I tried to mount

Re: [gentoo-user] what is the gentoo docs license please?

2003-07-03 Thread jsmith
Quoting Sven Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Are there any issues here? The gentoo copyright messages are intact. There are no issues in your case. We're also going to put all documents under a free license, GNU FDL or OPL, we're

Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread jsmith
Spider, you make some very valid points. I've written a (small, kludgy, in-house, will never be fit for prime time) text installer in python that essentially asks all the pertinent configuration questions (root partition, boot partitoin, swap partition, what filesystem type(s) one wants, static

Re: [gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread jsmith
Quoting gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On April 4, 2003 11:29 am, Alex wrote: Could someone recommend a good Window-Manager (and whatever add-ons) that support alpha-blending? (Where all/most the windows are transparent) as far as i know, X itself does not support real alpha transparencies.

RE: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-02 Thread jsmith
Quoting Tan, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At the risk of having someone flame me, I'm not sure I'd run Gentoo on Corporate desktops or servers. I don't think that it's stable enough for a production environment. It is more stable than most commercial distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake in

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning to hardware purchasers

2003-03-06 Thread jsmith
Quoting Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would whole heartedly recommend Monarch to anyone in the market for computer hardware. Sorry about the commercial here, I realize that this is OT but I would hate for anyone else to go through the garbage I endured. Newegg is also

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-03 Thread jsmith
Quoting Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh. The full magnitude of the problem suddenly dawns on me. /opt is bad because it's contents are not supposed to be dependent on anything else. /usr/local is bad because it's meant for non-distribution packages. /usr/share is bad because it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine

2003-02-26 Thread jsmith
I agree with other posts that the original question sounds dodgy. To the original poster: if you really did have a son who passed away, please accept my condolences, and take the harshness of some of the other replies in the context that your question does arouse quite reasonable suspicions. It