Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building kde-meta

2008-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 24 August 2008 20:15:43 James wrote: So it's only pulled in if you have the nls USE flag set. Engligh-speaking Americans probably have no need for this, and can unset it Interesting, I have a minimalistic server with X for displaying via rrdtools, postgresql jffnms and a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: why downtime? just create a directory, install the 64bit gentoo in that directory. Tar everything up, boot from livecd, untar the tar into the old system. Done. Downtime depends on the speed of your harddisks. Something between 5 and 30minutes. Top. So

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === On 23 Aug 2008, at 21:09, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... 1. eth0 IP address, 2. adsl modem IP address eth0 is connected with, 3. dedicated IP address for ppp0 interface after connecting to... 4. ... provider's pptp server with

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to run firefox

2008-08-25 Thread Jil Larner
Yo, Did you attempt a revdep-rebuild ? Sincerely, Jil Chuck Robey a écrit : I just did a emerge --update of firefox, and while that seemed to emerge with no errors, when I tried to run it, it tells me it can't load the XRE functions. This doesn't mean anything to me; does anyone know what

[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have:

[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Oh, I forgot to post the errors X generates at startup: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 expected keysym, got XF86AudioEject: line 2232 of inet Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Aug 2008, at 11:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === On 23 Aug 2008, at 21:09, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... 1. eth0 IP address, 2. adsl modem IP address eth0 is connected with, 3. dedicated IP address for ppp0 interface after connecting

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === ... The main question is what to do with eth0 wrt filtering. Best guess: ignore it. Presumably the point of having both is that only ppp0 can be seen by the outside world. Presumably eth0 has a private address and is inaccessible

[gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
Hello all, Checked bugzy but I cannot find anything relevant. I have two apps here, icu4j-3.8.1-r1 and xpp3-1.1.4c-r1 which are both failing upon world updates with similar messages: * checking icu4j-3_8_1-src.jar ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Darren darren kirby wrote on 25/08/08 23:29: Hello all, Checked bugzy but I cannot find anything relevant. I have two apps here, icu4j-3.8.1-r1 and xpp3-1.1.4c-r1 which are both failing upon world updates with similar messages: * checking icu4j-3_8_1-src.jar ;-) ...

[gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers Zoom x4 ADSL : = 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit/s ) www.zoom.com/products/adsl_overview.html#5651 : works w

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Jones: Hi Darren As illogical as this may sound, you probably need to run python-updater to fix this problem. Cheers, Dave Not illogical at all after you clued me into the fact it is Python barfing up the traceback. Anyways, after rebuilding 34 packages, my java-vm is being

[gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-25, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers Zoom x4 ADSL : = 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit/s )

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-25 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: (2) IIRC I'm signed up for Gentoo lists as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', so it looks as if I will need to resubscribe under the new ISP (I have a reply-to header pointing to my UoT address, but I delete it from e-mails to lists, as it caused problems in the past). Has anyone had other