Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-16 Thread Ryan Tandy
dirk dil wrote: my kernel supports usb mass storage and dos fs's Built-in, or modules? If the latter, make sure they're loaded... ;) And as Dirk mentioned, make sure you have SCSI support and SCSI disk support (hint: what does the 'sd' in /dev/sd* stand for? :P). Ryan -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it an env problem? I am really lost with this because I do not understand how OOo links into the DE. OOo looks at your environment to determine which desktop you are running and tries to activate an appropriate plugin to integrate with the DE. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 14 May 2006 13:32, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': > java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: A 1.4 vm refuses to load the output from a 1.5 javac because of the c

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread Uwe Klosa
Hi You can find information about java on Gentoo here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml. There are a lot of problems that can occur if you use java 1.5 as system vm. Have a look here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml I recommend to use the java migration-overlay https://pr

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-16 Thread Sergio Polini
dirk dil: > I'm having trouble mounting a jetflash 110 onto usb. Please, check http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/usb-guide.xml and your flash drive will work well ;-) Sergio ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati d

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/15/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kernel panic! That's what happens. Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root device? Did it detect your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it because it found your root, but failed to mount it? Or is it something completely unrelat

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-16 Thread dirk dil
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 00:02 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > dirk dil wrote: > > my kernel supports usb mass storage and dos fs's > > Built-in, or modules? If the latter, make sure they're loaded... ;) > And as Dirk mentioned, make sure you have SCSI support and SCSI disk > support (hint: what does t

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/16, Uwe Klosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi You can find information about java on Gentoo here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml. There are a lot of problems that can occur if you use java 1.5 as system vm. Have a look here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml I have tried

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread Uwe Klosa
You have to emerge java 1.4 and set this to your system vm first. Thena you can follow the migration-overlay description. I also had once java 1.5 as system vm. But there have been problems like that you're describing. the solution was to use the migration-overlay. Now I'm able to use java 1.5 w

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/16, Uwe Klosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You have to emerge java 1.4 and set this to your system vm first. Thena you can follow the migration-overlay description. I also had once java 1.5 as system vm. But there have been problems like that you're describing. the solution was to use the migra

[gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Can anyone give me some quick pointers to mounting an external firewire drive under Gentoo, please? I've just installed 2006.0 on a new system, and pretty much used the exact same .config as the LiveCD's kernel when building my own (`zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux.config`

Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 May 2006 11:28:17 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Can anyone give me some quick pointers to mounting an external > firewire drive under Gentoo, please? Is the ohci1394 module loaded? Do you have hotplug support in your kernel? CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y > I thought that under udev, the kernel was su

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 May 2006 19:33:51 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Thanks to all who replied, there wre some useful sugge

Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 May 2006, at 12:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... I thought that under udev, the kernel was supposed to be quite clever about recognising devices. Do I need to emerge coldplug, or is there anything else I can do to help things along? If I boot from a LiveCD or Knoppix these are always very

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-16 Thread Alexey Starinsky
Hello, dirk. dirk dil> mount -a -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/jetflash dirk dil> but there is no such thing as /dev/sda1. No /dev/sd?? what so ever. dirk dil> What am I missing? Just look what is in the /var/log/messages, /var/log/kernel, e.t.c (depends on your system logger) Inserting your flash dr

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 16:52:21 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > But why would you want to do this? If a patch level update is > > released, there may be a good reason. I'd prefer to leave things > > alone until an update is realsed. Then check the Changelog and mask > > the specific version if I do

Re: [gentoo-user] External firewire drive...

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:59:48 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > Udev should recognise the drive and create a device node... > > Having spent the last hour tinkering, it seems to do so only after > I've emerged & started coldplug. Is there anything else I should be > doing to get udev working, or shou

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r7 and Hyperthreading => not working ?

2006-05-16 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Dear Gentoo Users and Dev, I've just installed on my desktop the last gentoo-sources package ( in portage (2.6.16-r7). It seems that the hyperthreading is unvailable since when I do : 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', I can just see a single computer. That is really strange since I was using the previous pac

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:28, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': > 2006/5/15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 14 May 2006 13:32, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] caus

Re: [gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

2006-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:22, "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag': > In process of switching to nVIDIA drivers and following advice found in > forums to use the latest drivers. They recommend adding USE flag > "dlloader" and re-emerging xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/16, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:28, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': > 2006/5/15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 14 May 2006 13:32, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

2006-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. squawked: > From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports > the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an > X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only support

[gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel like I'm searching fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: You mount it. mount -o loop file.iso /some/path Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:18, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord

RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Lee Packham
You can do: mount -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom That will mount it on the file system and allow you to grab stuff out. You might have to specify a filesystem type, can't remember. If that's the case: mount -t iso9660 -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom Lee. -Origin

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/5/16, Kris Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord m

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:18 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either th

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread John J. Foster
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:18 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either th

[gentoo-user] Gnome Sound

2006-05-16 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi everyone, I am experiencing a real odd thing, I configured my kernel to alsa for NVIDIA AC'97 sound card, the sound options had beeing done well since cat /proc/asound/cards returns: 0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804 NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xda003000, irq 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r7 and Hyperthreading => not working ?

2006-05-16 Thread Mike Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi If I remember correctly, I think you also need to make sure you have ACPI enabled in the kernel too. Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: > Dear Gentoo Users and Dev, > > I've just installed on my desktop the last gentoo-sources package ( in > portage > (2.6

[gentoo-user] Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo Running these use flags in make.conf: [...] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="samba smb mysql symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr emacs xinerama mbox apache2 hal logrotate objc gcj sasl vmmouse wacom radeon tga vesa vga via vmware -ipv6 -imap -maildir -gnome" I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Ringwald
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread James Ausmus
On 16 May 2006 11:11:18 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Setup: Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo Running these use flags in make.conf: [...] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="samba smb mysql symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr emacs xinerama mbox apache2 hal logrotate objc gcj sasl vmmouse wac

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r7 and Hyperthreading => not working ?

2006-05-16 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
Title: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r7 and Hyperthreading => not working ? You need to enable: CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y -Original Message- From: Mike Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue 5/16/2006 12:14 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 11:11:18 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setup: > > Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo > > > > Running these use flags in make.conf: > > [...] > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" > > USE="samba smb mysql symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr

[gentoo-user] watchguard-kovpn?

2006-05-16 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Anyone out there familiar with the watchguard vpn's? Can you configure kovpn or something similar to use the vpn with a Gentoo client? I don't see a muvpn client for linux... Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread James Ausmus
On 16 May 2006 11:51:50 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 11:11:18 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setup: > > Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo > > > > Running these use flags in make.conf: > > [...] > > ACCE

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-16 Thread Grant
> I'd like it to > behave that way as much as possible so my Gentoo router can handle as > many of the router duties as possible. I've disabled the Westell's > firewall. What other types of things should I look for in the > Westell's configuration screen to disable? Is there anything that > mig

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > OK, what does the output of gcc-config -l (ell) show you - what > version of gcc is currently being used? Did gcc get updated prior to > the glibc update attempt? If so, was env-update && source /etc/profile > run after the gcc update? It output

[gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 16 May 2006 12:44:37 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So it appears then that something is wrong with this update process. emerge -v -uDp gcc doesn't want to update the current gcc which is 3.3.6 yet the glibc it wants to install requires a newer gcc bad. No, you already

Re: [gentoo-user] Fruityloops on gnu/linux!

2006-05-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Cool. I'll try it ASAP. But, by the way: has anyone figured out a way to > run the real FL with Wine? I manage to have it starting, but there are > serious issues with sound output (it has a latency of *seconds* and it's > quite distorted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:44:37PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 * > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened > [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie > [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopiessp > [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednossp > [6] i6

[gentoo-user] Re: Circular mess with glibc update (-u world)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 12:44:37 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it appears then that something is wrong with this update process. > > emerge -v -uDp gcc doesn't want to update the current gcc which is > > 3.3.6 yet the glibc it wants to i

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-cache doesn't exist?

2006-05-16 Thread Mick
On 15/05/06, Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Mick wrote: > What's this cache message? Do I need to do anything to fix it? every thing is fine. you need nothing to fix. this tells you only that eix-cache doesn't exist or uses obsolete format. doesn't exist: can b

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper driver version in gentoo-sources 2.4.32-r4 kernel

2006-05-16 Thread Joe Harvell
Never mind, I figured it out. Joe Harvell wrote: Is there a way I can tell which device-mapper version is in this kernel? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Lee Packham wrote: mount -o loop /location/of/iso/file.iso /mnt/cdrom That will mount it on the file system and allow you to grab stuff out. You might have to specify a filesystem type, can't remember. No, you don't HAVE to. You can, but you're not forced to. But that's actually nothing spec

Re: [gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

2006-05-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith > Jr. squawked: > >>From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports >>the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an >>X based off of the xf86 tree

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Mick
On 16/05/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/14/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it an env problem? I am really lost with this because I do not > understand how OOo links into the DE. OOo looks at your environment to determine which desktop you are running and tries to acti

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On May 9 19:33, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I > thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your > most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use aterm exclusively. It opens insta

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > >I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE > >flag still be ~x86? or something else? > > > > > k8 > -- Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was unable to verify this information on a google of "site:gento

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-embedded] LVM install fails to boot in 2006.0 with no-nptl/2.4 profile

2006-05-16 Thread Joe Harvell
Mike: Since the problem I am having with LVM is in an initrd environment, I suspect the problem may be related to something magical missing in the minimal initrd environment. It seems like a group that discusses embedded environments would have the expertise to figure out what might be missi

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-16 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/16, Uwe Klosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You have to emerge java 1.4 and set this to your system vm first. Thena you can follow the migration-overlay description. I also had once java 1.5 as system vm. But there have been problems like that you're describing. the solution was to use the migra

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
Yeay! Result! Gnome and KDE look cool. 'none' looks yukky. So, I guess mine picks up none, which is puzzling given my USE flags - I mean, what's the point setting flags then? Well the use flags just add the ability to support (and add dependancies on) the given environment by building the pl

[gentoo-user] Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Peter
On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:18:53 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option > somewhere within either

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was unable to verify this information o

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked: > > I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I > > believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top > > of > > my head

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread James Ausmus
maybe that was my misunderstading..on a brand-new opteron 64-bit...the architecture use flag i use is k8. I see no real reason to run 32-bit gentoo on a 64-bit box...64-bit support in gentoo was why we switched distros when we switched to 64-bit servers. my -march is k8 for those boxes. again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: > > BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: > does anyone else experience this & does anyone have a solution ? > Have you tried reducing "scaling" in view settings. You can also over-ride system wide font settings by using OOo def

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found

2006-05-16 Thread Jason Ausmus
> -Original Message- > From: Jason Ausmus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:12 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found > > Hi, > > I have a number of ebuilds failing on the gnome2_src_unpack command. > An

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a > miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. > Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old > YaKuake. It supports multiple console tabs

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, to cut short the confusion, Harry, your march setting in your > CFLAGS should be k8, and the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should be either x86, or > ~x86, depending on if you want to run stable. Thank you James. I was beginning to wonder if those settings were

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on > > a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its > > ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination > > and *pop* there's trusty old YaKuake. It s

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper driver version in gentoo-sources 2.4.32-r4 kernel

2006-05-16 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Joe Harvell wrote: > Never mind, I figured it out. Could you please share with us how you did that? > Joe Harvell wrote: > >Is there a way I can tell which device-mapper version is in this kernel? Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
James Ausmus wrote: maybe that was my misunderstading..on a brand-new opteron 64-bit...the architecture use flag i use is k8. I see no real reason to run 32-bit gentoo on a 64-bit box...64-bit support in gentoo was why we switched distros when we switched to 64-bit servers. my -march is k8 for

[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Using vmware on winxp and I see gentoo is not listed as a supported OS like Suse is. I'm currently running Suse from vmware for that reason. I did try to get gentoo running there sometime ago and don't remember what the problems were now. I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside v

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution gnome notification applet / systray integration

2006-05-16 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 01:05 Mon 15 May , Bennet Gedan wrote: > Hello there, > >though this is not a gnome mailing list, i'd like to ask if anyone > knows if there is a way to integrate evolution into the gnome system > tray and get notifications about new mails, apointments, tasks and so on > even if the evo

[gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 People, I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from USERS, that's why I'm posting here. I've never found a program that would allow me to browse portage categories, then packages, showing in one window des

[gentoo-user] Can't compile OpenOffice 2.0.2-r1 with Java support

2006-05-16 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Hi folks, I'd to install OpenOffice using the source package. I have in my USE variable "java" set. I'm using blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 as the default Java Environement set by java-config. When I emerge openoffice I get the hereunder error message. I've attached the file hs_err_pid10707.log. Wha

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on > > > a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its > > > ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Steven Susbauer
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: > Using vmware on winxp and I see gentoo is not listed as a supported OS > like Suse is. > > I'm currently running Suse from vmware for that reason. I did try to > get gentoo running there sometime ago and don't remember what the > problems were now. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside vmware on winxp > and if they might coach me on that. I usually set it to other linux 2.6 kernel, and done :) - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnm

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > People, > > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from > USERS, that's why I'm > posting here. > > I've never found a program that wo

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Mick
On 16/05/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well the use flags just add the ability to support (and add dependancies on) the given environment by building the plugin. If you check the output of "ldd /usr/lib/openoffice/program/*", you will see several libraries that depend upon KDE com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:40:52 -0400 Peter wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:18:53 -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: > > extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, > > without having to burn it

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > People, > > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from > USERS, that's why I'm > posting here. > > I've never found a program that wo

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside vmware on winxp > > and if they might coach me on that. > > I usually set it to other linux 2.6 kernel, and done :) Uh excuse the density of my skull but you'd

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas > from USERS, that's why I'm posting here. as I'm a Desktop user, I'll speak up ;-) . > I've never found a program that would allow me to browse > portage categories, then packages, showing in one window description, > vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in > > KHotkeys. > > Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully slow to use for > more than one setting. Or that it cannot set several dozen Keycombos > at once. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-16 Thread Grant
> I'd like it to > behave that way as much as possible so my Gentoo router can handle as > many of the router duties as possible. I've disabled the Westell's > firewall. What other types of things should I look for in the > Westell's configuration screen to disable? Is there anything that > m

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
e suse's yast. So, I would like to know: 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? I would like to see something that would support both, but also think I would get much more use out of something that runs as a GUI 2) what additional functionality would you like?

Re: [gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

2006-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:10:28PM -0500, Penguin Lover Anthony E. Caudel squawked: > Thanks guys. From what I've read, dlloader, while not quite > experimental, is not used very much yet. Perhaps for the future. The > only packages I would need it for are xorg-x11 and nvidia-glx. So I > think

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread b.n.
1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? GUI primarily, but a console for scripting. I agree. 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask packages, install/remove, emerge command generator [much like nmapfe], etc) mask/unmask would be nice, but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > > I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really > > liked, so just made a wrapper myself for aterm in fvwm using a > > borderless window, key binding for focus and shading, and EdgeCommand. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread leszek
> 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask packages, > install/remove, emerge > command generator [much like nmapfe], etc) a notification applet which emerge --sync every day in the background and warn us when there is something to emerge. Something like in ubuntu. PS:

[gentoo-user] OT - Rosegarden View issue

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
This may be a stupid question, but here goes: In Rosegarden in the notation editor, is it possible to view more than one measure at a time, and if so, how do I do it? Mine only shows me one measure at a time, but a picture in the Rosegarden handbook showed multiple measures in the same screen and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo inside vmware on winxp

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am writing this from Gentoo running in VMware workstation on Windows > Server 2003. It works just fine, just install it like a normal install > except you need to use lspci to find what hardware vmware is showing > Gentoo, and compile accordingly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Jeff Rollin
>> 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? I would like to suggest a GUI, ncurses (console) functionality, and also commandline functionality (a la cfdisk/fdisk/sfdisk, but rolled into one) Jeff.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
060517 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: >> BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: >> does anyone else experience this & does anyone have a solution ? > Have you tried reducing "scaling" in view settings. That ( 80 % ) reduces the menu(-bar)

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in > > > KHotkeys. > > > > Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully slow to use for > > more than one setting. Or

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Bennet Gedan
Hi Arturo On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > I've never found a program that would allow me to browse portage > categories, then packages, showing in one window description, > version, etc, etc. you do know kuroo [1]? It's very kde-ish, but (or because of tha

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > I'd suggest Python too. Yep, it was definitely the way to go it seems. > You can write an API and then 2 wrappers: > - a console-based ncurses one > - an X-based wxpython one (I recommend wx because it's quite easy to > program, powerfu

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution gnome notification applet / systray integration

2006-05-16 Thread Bennet Gedan
Hi Johám-Luís, On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:23 +0200, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote: > emerge -av mail-notification Comes close to what i am searching. Thank you. -- A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Chocron wrote: > QT4 is a great idea ! However, as I said, it would be great if the tool colud > be used in the early stage of an install. That is, if it could be used with > just portage and ncurses/slang emerged. QT4 catches my attention,

[gentoo-user] more CFLAG

2006-05-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Taking the opportunity of a major update to adjust CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf and I found something that looks like it might be a typo of mine. CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe" Does the `O' (uppercase oh) have an `s' component? gcc man says the `O' is to set levels and I think this may be su

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-16 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 01:03, JimD a écrit : > Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup > and use? > > My current setup is postfix, procmail and bogofilter. Maybe I haven't > trained bogofilter enough or something. After three weeks, I have yet > to have one spam m

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