Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

Hi again.On 1/20/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/19/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> What I want, is to end up with kde 3.4.3 (only) installed, without arts.>  I would first like to unmerge both 3.5 and 3.4.1, but as I used the split>  ebuilds Im not sure howHow about:cd /v

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote > "+ and "* , but only if you USE="vim-with-x". Did that, and it doesn't seem to help. Here's my status... [m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --verbose vim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating depende

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:26:28 + Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Hi! > > > > From the manpage: > > domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name > > dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name > >

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: > Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may > also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... > I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the > EXACT same problem as WTS. I j

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

For now that will not affect any user, only the manufacturer. And yes, they could put ext2 on a digital camera. Maybe this patent will prompt them to do just that. sincerely, Joshua On 1/26/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > > Yeah, use ext2 for all of that: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:38 +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat

[gentoo-user] smart array 642 monitoring and hot-swap

Hello List! Is anyone using this type of controller? I have this in our server, and it works well, except that I can't monitor it at all, and the hot-plug doesn't work either. I read the documentation of the cciss driver, and it says that the hotplug function works only for sequential drives (tape

Re: [gentoo-user] hpasm doesn't work

2006-01-18, sze keltezéssel 15:20-kor Stroller ezt írta: > On 18 Jan 2006, at 14:00, Stefan Istvan wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried to use the hpasm package on a HP Proliant server? > > Yes, it's horrible. > > > It seems to me that this package is originally made for RedHat, and > > that's why it

Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID

Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:47:21PM -0200, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > well, let me describe the problem. > > sometimes, when I try to synchronize my Palm, pilot-xfer throws a > error, and the devices /dev/tts/USBn do not disappear. if it happens > repeatedly... well, I guess the scene is painte

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)

Hi all, Thanks for all the help. I changed the protocol to "ExplorerPS/2" and I now have the wheel working again. The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this problem. Previously the mouse had been working with the protocol set to "auto" with no problems. Paul --

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

The problem occurs when running Win4Lin *within* a VNC session. The same goes for QEMU. I don't fully understand the difference between loading X at the console versus loading it at a virtual console, but I think that some keyboard mappings (among other things) are treated differently in the virtu

[gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 < http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238>) Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t the kdegraphics-3.3.2-r2 package. How can I download this package on my gentoo to f

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

Ian wrote: > But there are still a few things in /usr/kde/3.5 > Dirs: env, share, shutdown > What should I do? Throw the whole 3.5 dir away. (Tar it up first, if you wish to play it safe.) Also clean out any *kde*3.5 files from /etc/env.d and run env-update.sh. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as > described here(This bug #83238 > ) That bug is not about kdegraphics but about revdep-rebuild. > Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)

On Friday 27 January 2006 06:17, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > Hi all, > Thanks for all the help. > I changed the protocol to "ExplorerPS/2" and I now have the wheel working > again. > The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this > problem. Previously the mo

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > > tree shows the dependency/reverse dependency tree of the items to be > > > emerged, so you can see why something being emerged/upgraded as a > > > dependency of something that is currently up-to-date is being emerged > > > (and what the main application

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via > uname -r: > > malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" > total 212 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build > -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root31 Jan 15

[gentoo-user] Re: cfengine any one?

Jean Blignaut megaweb.biz> writes: > I saw cfengine mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/server-standards.xml > But my searching thru the forums and cfengines website > aren’t yielding the kind of result I’d expect: > What are its features > Screenshots? > How to confi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:33 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as > described here(This bug #83238 > > ) > > Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t > the kdegraph

[gentoo-user] Sound problem

Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org alsa-guide) after that, the error message became "could not open /dev/dsp permission de

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone! I have Via on-board sound and i cant get the audio to work. > > At first the problem was that /dev/dsp did not exist, so i loaded a > couple of modules into the kernel (mostly following www.gentoo.org > alsa-guide) after th

[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I

[gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

On 1/27/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version > of gcc was used to compile my kernel? > -- > Regards, Ernie > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > cat /proc/version -- Andrés -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no error messages anywhere to be found!! yet the sound does not work, i think it is more of a curse, so i will subscribe to the exorcism mailing list, anyway i will continue to hear your suggestions of course :P Thanks anyway soundless Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which > > version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? > > This should do it: > gcc -v > Maybe I wasn't clear enough Phil, I sus

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naom

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00 hr

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v Maybe I wasn't clear eno

[gentoo-user] dead USB card?

I have a USB PCI card which stopped working, meaning my scanner stopped being detected. The problem remains also under KNOPPIX. Can I assume the card is dead? (But it is recognized, sort of...) Partial output of lspci -vvv (as root): 02:0c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Control

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe > something about /dev/rtc? > Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory gen

[gentoo-user] Connection to linux server dying on both connected devices

Hello list.  I've been reading this mailing list for a while now and have taken great pleasure in reading some of these e-mails.  But now the time has come for me to present a problem I hope you all can help me with.  I recently reinstalled Gentoo (stage3) after my hard drive crashed in my server (

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

Phil Sexton wrote: Could someone expound on these 3 commands? I don't really understand the man and info pages on these. gcc -v gcc --version (I thought the previous two were the same.) cat /proc/version gcc -v tells you what programs are invoked by gcc. gcc being a collection of compilers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is > happening. > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

On 27 January 2006 18:10, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo > > sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Sexton wrote: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to >> write: >> >>> Ernie Schroder wrote: >>> I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of

[gentoo-user] http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]

I'm trying to get the http replicator working. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are the steps I did to prep the machine. I know that the user portage has write/read access as specified in /etc/conf.d/http-replicator. I also went over step by step with a user that has been using this before

RE: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

> Well, this is what I would like to do. ( I thought this would be > obvious.) But I can't continue with the `emerge world` > unless I'm able to resolve the blocks. The command/process > dies almost immediately complaining about the blocked packages. I had the same problem and was quite annoy

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

Two things.  Build your audio drivers as modules.  Secondly, emerge alsautils then use alsamixer to adjust your audio levels.  They're all muted by default.On 1/27/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I followed your advice Andres and its weird, there are now no errormessages anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Uwe Thiem wrote: The device hwclock connects to *is* the BIOS clock. Uwe Let me rephrase. A physical device has to have a software representation for software to "connect" to it. I'm trying to suggest that something is wrong with that interface. Clearly Abhay's BIOS clock doesn't jive with

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

Thanks Benno!Now how do I install kde 3.4.3? The main reason for doing this is that I dont want arts.If I just emerge the bare minimum, will it want to install arts as well?What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop konsole kcontrol right? (Up until now, Ive just used "emerge kde". Its my

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

This is kind of along the same line of alsa mixer.I use kde and fluxbox, but kde's stupid sound daemon wont letsome apps have sound, such as audacity or firefox.When I use Fluxbox, the sound works, but _every_ time I boot my computer into Fluxbox, I must unmute and level upall of my sounds. Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo > > > > > > box: Prostar 2.8Gig Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

Ian wrote: Thanks Benno! Now how do I install kde 3.4.3? The main reason for doing this is that I dont want arts. Just set USE="-arts" in make.conf Then emerge whatever KDE stuff you want. Arts will stay away. -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

Walter Dnes wrote: Let me re-iterate what I'm trying to do... - In X, highlight a text string (e.g. a URL) in Firefox - hit {CTRL}{ALT}{F1}, taking me to a *REAL TEXT CONSOLE* running mutt or slrn, with vim as the editor - paste the complex URL directly into a message I'm composing wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: >>Well, this is what I would like to do. ( I thought this would be >>obvious.) But I can't continue with the `emerge world` >>unless I'm able to resolve the blocks. The command/process >>dies almost immediately complaining about

[gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

Hey everyoneI came across this app and and having issues getting it to work. I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its doing? Is this what Im supposed to do?Thanks!-- Cheers,Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Electricsheep (General Question)

I left it running on the command prompt.It seemed to be downloading, as I was monitoring internetactivity through gkrellm2. It finished, and displayed this:# electricsheepX Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)   Major opcode of failed request:  139 (XVideo)  Minor opcod

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]

On 12:09 Fri 27 Jan , Dan Sheffner wrote: >I'm trying to get the http replicator working. I'm not sure what I'm doing >wrong. I assume you were using the howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator I noticed a couple of minor differences from my set

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

On 20:19 Fri 27 Jan , Ian wrote: >Hey everyone >I came across this app and and having issues getting it to work. >I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10 >minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its >doing? Is this what Im su

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

On Friday 27 January 2006 13:23, a tiny voice compelled Rafael Fernández López to write: > Phil Sexton wrote: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to > >> > >> write: > >>> Ernie Schroder wrote: > I used to know this but I can't fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Abhay Kedia wrote: > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. How? What commands do you give? > Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I > see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which > I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

Ian wrote: > What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop > konsole kcontrol right? No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, at least here it did. Also, you won't need kcontrol if you don't want to adjust anything. But don't you want kmail and konqueror? Benno

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

LOL, I use webmail, and I forgot about konq.Thanks!On 1/27/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Ian wrote:> What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop > konsole kcontrol right?No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, atleast here it did.  Also, you won'

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

I've been running gentoo on my server, my notebook and a few VMWares. I always run the revdep-rebuild when I do some 'emerge world' operations. I can't think of a single time I've seen this thing actually complete, when there were packages to be rebuilt. EVERY time it pukes on something not bein

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

Daevid Vincent wrote: It generates some line like this: emerge --oneshot =app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.4.1 =app-editors/gedit-2.12.1 =app-text/evince-0.5.0 =gnome-base/control-center-2.12.2-r1 =gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.7 .. What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this: emerge ap

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

On 1/27/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always run the revdep-rebuild when I do some 'emerge world' operations. > > I can't think of a single time I've seen this thing actually complete, when > there were packages to be rebuilt. Sounds like you are not using -D/--deep when you up

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a ful

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if > that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about > it in #gentoo. > Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

> > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > the job. > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. Thanks for the reply -- Regards, Abhay pgpP73ADHTiTa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

> > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour > (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to th

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

Daevid Vincent wrote: > vmware ~ # revdep-rebuild --help > Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS] (snip) > I've tried it this way: > revdep-rebuild -Xav > revdep-rebuild -av --package-names > revdep-rebuild -av -X --package-names I'm not quite sure, but

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: > test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the > exit code.   ... > As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in > to many shells, as the behavior there is defined by the shell. > Generally tho