[gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC HD HD video camera. (The first HD is for high def!). Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the annoying thing is the video files are named in hex: MOV001 MOV002 MOV003 ... MOV009 MOV00A

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade using binary packages

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:39:15 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the kernel config this shows up as Via C3 processor... Which is not an i686, it has a couple of instructions missing from the full i686 instruction set, hence the illegal instruction message. CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 -m3dnow -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] font problem after xorg-server upgrade

2007-04-26 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:07:48PM +0200, Pongracz Istvan wrote: My personal opinion is that is not a solution if I had to tweak all the system to get it working. I did not mean tweaking when I said I have no time to experiment. I want to locate the problem as closely as possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Christian
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2007 02:11 schrieb José Pedro Saraiva: Hi all! I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless adapter. I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth).

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what !plug does. Check out /etc/conf.d/net.example, search for plug, find the section Cable in/out detection. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC HD HD video camera. (The first HD is for high def!). Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the annoying thing is the video files are

[gentoo-user] why does gentoo's groff haven't chem's module?

2007-04-26 Thread anhnmncb
Hi, list: Nowaday I try to learn groff's module chem to draw chemical strutrues, I find although gentoo has the latest groff, but it doesn't contain the chem module, so I want to know why? or maybe I make some mistake? Thank you for any advice or indicator. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, when I try to update to a newer

[gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Grant
I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Nelson, David J
-Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2007 15:59 To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? Delete all your music. ;-) Seriously, get another one. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* --

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r

[gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread James
Abhay Kedia abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes: That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have flash mentioned under

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello fire-eyes, 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) No it's not - if you delete the portage directory, portage will simply recreate it when it needs it. -- Neil Bothwick Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have flash mentioned under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote: Now make a symlink from what to what? You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote: Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications. I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu, model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Didn't see this post of yours earlier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Somerville
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:57:49PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: (Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective. I've started using rdiff-backup, it's really nice. Thanks a lot for the pointer! Mark pgpXtbxYMJBsn.pgp

[gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he uses to access these two databases? This will save me the trouble of finding him.

[gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
· fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! Alexander Skwar -- Bond

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he uses to access these two databases? This will save me the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Looks like I've come with a different situation now: I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2 (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

2007-04-26 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: Looks like I've come with a different situation now: I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. Things are a little better now, but looks like it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:03 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm currently in the process of migrating databases to a new box. One of my users has two databases that he needs access to. Is there a way (through the mysql terminal interface) to find out what passwords he uses

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-26 Thread kashani
is the MD5 password. You can log into your new Mysql instance, use mysql, and then paste the above lines in to add the some access. Additionally you can dump just the whole mysql db and import it from the old db to the new db. mysqldump -u root -p --databases mysql mysqldb-20070426.sql on the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: · fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC HD HD video camera. (The first HD is for high def!). Anyway, the great feature is it records on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Watch this one! I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 (depending

[gentoo-user] showconsole disappoints

2007-04-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, According to http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050822-newsletter.xml setting RC_BOOTLOG=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc and emerging the showconsole pkg will generate /var/log/boot.msg where boot messages will be written. But boot.msg is never more than 44 lines, a fraction of total output.

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and wpa_supplicant issues

2007-04-26 Thread Will Briggs
� wrote: Hi all! I own a Toshiba laptop P100-400 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless adapter. I've managed to get it working with normal WEP authentication, but no success with wpa_supplicant (and I really need it for WPA auth). # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart * Stopping

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Adam Carter
A bit softer than some of the other suggestions; # eclean packages # eclean distfiles app-portage/gentoolkit contains eclean. From the man page; eclean is small tool to remove obsolete portage sources files and binary packages. Used on a regular basis, it prevents your DISTDIR and