Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Grant
>> >> Is there another ppp client I can try besides wvdial?  One of the >> >> dependecies of kppp won't emerge for me so I'm out of luck there. >> >> >> >> - Grant >> >> >> > >> > >> > One of the dependencies won't emerge?  Which one? >> > That should be fixable.  Post the fail log for the emerge,

Re: [gentoo-user] new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Mark Shields wrote: > I would really recommend getting rid of the genkernel and compiling a kernel > from sources. > I will try again to do so. Alan

[gentoo-user] qt blocks, poppler, etc.

2009-07-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am trying to install cb2bib from an overlay. The ebuild is on gentoo bugs. On this machine, over time, I have gotten qt to settle down, but now it's a mess. I have tried to install some dependencies with emerge -1 , but since I have too little understanding of that issue, didn't do that for a

Re: [gentoo-user] X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-04 Thread felix
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > There are two other problems. The "fb0" complaint has been there for > a while; I have to "sudo rm /dev/fb0" for X to work. The kernel has > the framebuffer configured, but I haven't investigated much because I > can get X work

[gentoo-user] X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-04 Thread felix
A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2. I learned a while back I could get by without an X config. It swapped a couple of the menu / al

Re: [gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-04 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:34:21 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:38:16PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson > squawked: > > Since the target machine is an embedded 486SX with limited mass > > storage, operation without X is a must. > > > > I've got dosemu version 1.4.0.1 built wi

Re: [gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:38:16PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: > Since the target machine is an embedded 486SX with limited mass > storage, operation without X is a must. > > I've got dosemu version 1.4.0.1 built with flags "X gpm -debug -svga". > [06:33 PM]wwong ~ $ euse -i svg

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero squawked: > > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. > > I use sysklogd, that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
> you even quoted the part where it clearly says the package is NOT in > portage. ouch. > > It's in an overlay, Sunrise to be exact, and you need layman for that. There > is an excellent layman guide on the gentoo docs site. > didn't > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > finish my post

[gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-04 Thread David Relson
Greetings, For a work related project I've got a DOS program (Borland C++ with graphics library) that I want to run under FreeDOS, DOSEMU, and Linux. The graphics are pretty simple - lines, bars, and an alphabetic font. When I start DOSEMU from a Gnome terminal window, the DOS program correctly d

Re: [gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roger Mason wrote: > I'm trying to compile (outside portage) a program that needs > libtermcap. I installed libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 but that seems not > to provide it (I looked with 'find'). > > How can I install libtermcap? if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes wit

[gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to compile (outside portage) a program that needs libtermcap. I installed libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 but that seems not to provide it (I looked with 'find'). How can I install libtermcap? Thanks, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 July 2009, Mark Shields wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I know that rrdtool dump will export the rrd data into XML, but is there > > something to either directly or via rrdtool create a CSV file for me? > > Will probably want to run this on

Re: [gentoo-user] new system, printing suddenly fails for all printers

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I've been wrangling with a new gentoo install, on an AMD X2 64 bit > machine. It's been a problematic experience, but when the system works > right, it works really right. > I would really recommend getting rid of the genkernel and compilin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I know that rrdtool dump will export the rrd data into XML, but is there > something to either directly or via rrdtool create a CSV file for me? Will > probably want to run this on a cron job and email/save it. > -- > Regards, > Mick >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Grant wrote: > >> Is there another ppp client I can try besides wvdial? One of the > >> dependecies of kppp won't emerge for me so I'm out of luck there. > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > > > > One of the dependencies won't emerge? Which one? > > That should be fixab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Grant
>> Is there another ppp client I can try besides wvdial?  One of the >> dependecies of kppp won't emerge for me so I'm out of luck there. >> >> - Grant >> > > > One of the dependencies won't emerge?  Which one? > That should be fixable.  Post the fail log for the emerge, and we'll work to > get tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mask a package

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Pupino wrote: > Hello everybody, > i'm having troubles with the policykit package, and i've discovered > that the new version (0.92) has broken all APIs and this causes some > packages to not compile anymore (network manager in my case). > So i tried to mask it and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Shields
> > > > Is there another ppp client I can try besides wvdial? One of the > dependecies of kppp won't emerge for me so I'm out of luck there. > > - Grant > > One of the dependencies won't emerge? Which one? That should be fixable. Post the fail log for the emerge, and we'll work to get that res

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Grant
>> > I've used wvdial to connect my laptop to the "3" network in Australia >> > with no problem.  I'm now trying to connect to the "Zain" network in >> > Tanzania and I can't get it to work.  I can browse the internet from >> > the phone (Nokia N82), but I can't seem to connect with wvdial. >> > He

[gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-04 Thread Mick
Hi All, I know that rrdtool dump will export the rrd data into XML, but is there something to either directly or via rrdtool create a CSV file for me? Will probably want to run this on a cron job and email/save it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 04 Juli 2009 14:51:54 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > > having said that, you can even do w/o > > initramfs, just put everything into /boot (which should be a separate > > partition, then). Again, see my reply to David for the details. > > Interesting. Getting rid o

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Grant
Its actually a zain sim and data works on the handset. On 7/4/09, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 July 2009, Grant wrote: >> Thank you but same results. Any other ideas via any method? > > If you have not changed anything in your laptop then the issue would be with > the Zain network. Have you chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 July 2009, Grant wrote: > Thank you but same results. Any other ideas via any method? If you have not changed anything in your laptop then the issue would be with the Zain network. Have you checked that as part of your roaming agreement with "3" you get data calls with "Zain"? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Mittwoch 01 Juli 2009 12:40:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > The last two PCs (A and B) I installed are fully encrypted. I used > > different methods. I used genkernel --luks --lvm --install all to > > create kernel and initramfs. > > First, see one of my replies t

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Grant
Thank you but same results. Any other ideas via any method? On 7/4/09, Mick wrote: > On Friday 03 July 2009, Grant wrote: >> > I've used wvdial to connect my laptop to the "3" network in Australia >> > with no problem. I'm now trying to connect to the "Zain" network in >> > Tanzania and I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wvdial fails with "Zain" Tanzanian network

2009-07-04 Thread Mick
On Friday 03 July 2009, Grant wrote: > > I've used wvdial to connect my laptop to the "3" network in Australia > > with no problem. I'm now trying to connect to the "Zain" network in > > Tanzania and I can't get it to work. I can browse the internet from > > the phone (Nokia N82), but I can't see

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > > > > I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings. > > I use sysklogd, that shouldn't matter much though. The con