[gentoo-user] Need help with USE options.

2005-12-30 Thread Dale
Hi again, I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some things a user may not want installed. I am going to do a reinstall and mostly copy some things over from my current install but I do want to change my USE line. I am a bit worried about using the option they posted

[gentoo-user] Weird GNOME problem

2005-12-30 Thread michael
Earlier tonight I changed the setting in /etc/conf.d/rc for the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL from "yes" to "no" and rebooted. Now I can't get into GNOME. For my personal account after I enter my username/password the screen clears and I see the default background color and my mouse pointer, then nothing els

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
> > On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Or should I say portage as a whole. Anyway, my latest emerge world > > > failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!). The current one is 1.5 > > > something. The weird part is that I cannot find any reason for that > > > package to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/05, Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> Or should I say portage as a whole.  Anyway, my latest emerge world> failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!).  The current one is 1.5> something. The weird part is that I cannot find any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:30 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:02 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to find out what each device node is connected to > > hardwarewise? I'm wonderine if /dev/video0 is NOT the correct device > > for

Re: [gentoo-user] More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:05 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Yesterday I compiled a kernel with ALSA support for my card compiled in. > > I booted with that kernel yesterday and everything worked great. Today > > when I booted into Linux I got errors when alsasound tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo apache virtual domains setup

2005-12-30 Thread michael
I should add that I'm doing virtual domains by name, not ip address. Also I see some references to the "vhosts" USE flag, which seems related, but poorly documented. Any pointers on this? M On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to serve web pages for multiple virtual doma

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Or should I say portage as a whole. Anyway, my latest emerge world > failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!). The current one is 1.5 > something. The weird part is that I cannot find any reason for that package > to be emerged. > 1) the

[gentoo-user] gentoo apache virtual domains setup

2005-12-30 Thread michael
Hi, I want to serve web pages for multiple virtual domains from my gentoo box. The latest howto I could find (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Server#Apache.2C_mod_php.2C_and_PHP) admits that it is out of date relative to the gentoo apach2 package. Does anyone know of a more recent h

[gentoo-user] emerge going weird

2005-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Or should I say portage as a whole.  Anyway, my latest emerge world failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!).  The current one is 1.5 something. The weird part is that I cannot find any reason for that package to be emerged. 1) the world file contains just "sun-jdk" 2) "equery depends =sun-jdk-1.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
John J. Foster wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: > > > > "I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. > > When I was younger so much younger then today..." > > "I never needed anybody's help

Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

2005-12-30 Thread Jessica Rasku
Heinz Sporn wrote: > Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku: > >>I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync. Using >>pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done; pilot-xfer\ >>-l >>

[gentoo-user] vmware+win98se+sonido

2005-12-30 Thread MILTON VIDAL
Hola lista, vmware+win98se+sonido no se como hacer funcionar el sonido en el win98se, le baje los dirivers sb16 pero no pueden instalarse, alguien a tenido alguna experiencia sobre el particular gracias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-30 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:02 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to find out what each device node is connected to > hardwarewise? I'm wonderine if /dev/video0 is NOT the correct device > for my tv card, and if one of the other sixty-three /dev/video* nodes, > b

Re: [gentoo-user] More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Qiangning Hong
Michael Sullivan wrote: > Yesterday I compiled a kernel with ALSA support for my card compiled in. > I booted with that kernel yesterday and everything worked great. Today > when I booted into Linux I got errors when alsasound tried to start. > Here are the errors: [...] > # > # Loadable module s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 7:15 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I meant that I compiled ALSA with support for my sound card as > modules... Try deleting your config file and rerun alsa conf. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:39 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > > > On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I ran alsaconf (again).  When it tried to start alsasound it gave all > > > those same errors again. > > > > Alsac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsasound it gave all > > those same errors again. > > Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I ran alsaconf (again).  When it tried to start alsasound it gave all > those same errors again. Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules tends to muck up the system pretty good. The easiest way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 23:24 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 22:56, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can anyone help me with this? > > Try to run alsaconf. > > Ciao > Francesco > -- > Linux Version 2.6.14-gentoo-r5, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 16 06:54:46 > CET 200

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, C. Beamer wrote: John Jolet wrote: Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread C. Beamer
John Jolet wrote: > Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a > kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my > hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just > did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480.

[gentoo-user] Re: More ALSA trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 30 December 2005 22:56, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Can anyone help me with this? Try to run alsaconf. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.14-gentoo-r5, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Fri Dec 16 06:54:46 CET 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4415.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth -

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:06 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 11:53 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > It's been over an hour since I sent this in to the list and my log files > > say that it was sent, but I haven't gotten it back from the list yet. > > I'm sending it again...

[gentoo-user] yahoo pri nameserver change error

2005-12-30 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, anybody have an experience by changing the primary nameserver in a domain by purchasing from yahoo small business? i tried but it gave me an error like 'unable to process your requeste'. can anybody help me? note: any advices are welcom... -- ... "The future lies ahead." _

[gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480. So I ran xorgconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Sean
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or only) session available. I've only used KDE and

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:44:09 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > >> > tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the >> > use >> > of dd. All you need is >> > >> > ssh hostname tar cf /source/path >backup.tar.gz >> > >> hmm, I'm not sure this behavior is cons

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > >> or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd >> of=target.tar.gz > > tar outputs to stdout be default, Not always. > as is the use > of dd. Yes. Alexander Skwar -- Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:19:33PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:08:58 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/ > > > > > Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/ > > I pasted it from Konqueror

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:08:58 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: > > See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/ > > > Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/ I pasted it from Konqueror, so yes. -- Neil Bothwick ATTENTION: Despite any other listing of produc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-30 Thread Grant
> >> > -* are masked for all archs. This is experimental beyond ~*. > >> > Furthermore, you should at least specify your particular arch, like > >> > x86, amd64, ppc. Many applications don't even use a -* arch so you > >> > will be missing a whole bunch of stuff. > >> > > >> > A better way to handl

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:44:09 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > > tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the > > use > > of dd. All you need is > > > > ssh hostname tar cf /source/path >backup.tar.gz > > > hmm, I'm not sure this behavior is consistent across all versions of >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:40:57PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/ > Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/ festus -- I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you unde

[gentoo-user] Re: Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Peter
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:47:05 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 03:18, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Alternative Window > Managers': >> I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I'd >> like to have th

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. > I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as > separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them > as default (or only) session available. FWIW, I started ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 December 2005 03:18, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers': > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. > I'd like to have them available as separate > sessions when I log in. > > I've only used KD

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd of=target.tar.gz tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the use of dd. All you need is ssh hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:13:41 -0200, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > *My system:* > I use the latest stable version of KDE, ivman, hal, and dbus. You don't need ivman with KDE, as long as KDE is merged with the hal USE flag. > In /etc/fstab I say that /dev/sda1 must be mounted on /mnt/usb, and can > be

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:14:27 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > additionally backup "/var/db/pkg/" , it's annoying loose this one on a > gentoo system (only needed after a successfully emerge ). And /var/lib/portage/world -- Neil Bothwick I am NOT Paranoid! And why are you always watching me??

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up" | dd > of=target.tar.gz tar outputs to stdout be default, so "-f -" is redundant, as is the use of dd. All you need is ssh hostname tar cf /source/path >backup.tar.gz -- Neil Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Jeff
Fluxbox is tight. Really slick, clean, fast, and yet, still very manageable/configurable. I think you'd love it... just my opinion... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/fluxbox-config.xml ;-) Bill Roberts wrote: > On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Bill Roberts
On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've > already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate > sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or > only) session av

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-30 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:12, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > > Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But > > after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are uuencode and uudecode

2005-12-30 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 30 December 2005 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know which package may contain uudecode/uuencode if any? sharutils -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread Cláudio Henrique
My system:I use the latest stable version of KDE, ivman, hal, and dbus.   In /etc/fstab I say that /dev/sda1 must be mounted on /mnt/usb, and can be unmounted by any user..Where I am:Everytime I insert a USB Stick in my computer, ivman automatically creates a /dev/sdN1, where N can be any letter, a

[gentoo-user] Where are uuencode and uudecode

2005-12-30 Thread reader
Anyone know which package may contain uudecode/uuencode if any? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Peter
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:18:22 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've > already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate > sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or > only) se

Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

2005-12-30 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku: > I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync. Using > pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done; pilot-xfer\ > -l >No $PILOTPORT specified

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: XFCE user taking KDE for a spin

2005-12-30 Thread Peter
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:34:06 -0800, Grant wrote: >> > -* are masked for all archs. This is experimental beyond ~*. >> > Furthermore, you should at least specify your particular arch, like >> > x86, amd64, ppc. Many applications don't even use a -* arch so you >> > will be missing a whole bunch of

[gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

2005-12-30 Thread Jessica Rasku
I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync. Using pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done; pilot-xfer\ -l No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p given. Defaulting to '/dev/pilot' Unable to bind to port:

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Lithion
Hi Boyd, I have used ratpoison then moved to ion3. I found ratpoison was really good to use but there were some short-comings such as difficulty in reading a window title because I was always pressing Ctrl-T,A to read the title of an xterm window showing the progress of an emerge. I also found

[gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

2005-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm wanting to experiment with some alternative window managers. I've already emerged them, but I'd like to have them available as separate sessions when I log in, and possibly migrate to one of them as default (or only) session available. I've only used KDE and Gnome in the past, and they are