Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote on 03/08/09 17:19: > I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. > It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. > I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately > I'm unable to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is >>> patched by gentoo? >> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. > Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running > Gentoo as a g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. >> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running >> Gentoo as a guest inside anoth

[gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Ran an eix-sync followed by an emerge -puDNv world. It reported that my 'profile' was no longer supported, and suggested switching to the 'default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop', which I did. Retried the emerge -puDNv world, with the following result: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE fla

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 01:39: > On Saturday 24 October 2009 01:25:44 Dave Jones wrote: >> Ran an eix-sync followed by an emerge -puDNv world. >> It reported that my 'profile' was no longer supported, and suggested >> switching to the 'default/

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote: >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group. > Seeing as how this has been discu

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 22:18: >>> Why should they do it again when you could just as easily find >>> the previous answer yourself. >> I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful >> to other users > It's only useless so you since you have not done the usual research

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 25/10/09 01:38: > Oh please, grow up, get a life and stop sounding like a spoilt brat. Thank you for this constructive and original comment. Just as useful as your other postings on this thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-25 Thread Dave Jones
Neil Bothwick wrote on 25/10/09 00:51: > I suppose you're also in favour of McDonalds putting "Warning, contents > may be hot" notices of their coffee cups? Off topic?

Re: [gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 18:51: I cannot emerge the latest xulrunner, but the root cause appears to be my Java configuration. I haven't touched it in ages, so I have no idea how this happened. The evidence: treat ~ # eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Kevin, Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 20:03: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 18:51: I cannot emerge the latest xulrunner, but the root cause appears to be my Java configuration. I haven't tou

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 ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 fails before compile starts

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Dennis Denis wrote on 22/09/08 22:48: Could you help me decipher what I need to do in order to get this to compile? Here is the message on emerge: = Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/depend-java-query", line 8, in

Re: [gentoo-user] udevinfo - where is it

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Jones
Helmut Jarausch wrote on 23/10/08 12:29: > I have a recent GenToo system (udev-130-r1) but I cannot > find the utility 'udevinfo' > Which package contains it? sys-fs/udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoe to stop em8300-modulesinstalling?

2008-11-19 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Dale wrote on 20/11/08 02:40: > William Kenworthy wrote: >> An emerge world wants to install em8300-modules which according to >> equery is caused by sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r3 which is >> installed but not in use - yet. >> >> As em8300 wont build, and I dont have a one (I presume its

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Damian, damian wrote on 24/11/08 21:01: > In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But > I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching > for a lightweight option. ntp is a 'standard' ntp set-up. It needs some configuration work to get it runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
KH wrote on 04/12/08 19:47: > I have been told not to touch the Samsung drivers. I am using > net-print/foo2zjs. foo2zjs works well with the cheap HP CLJ1600 laser printer. Cheap, fast, no more expensive dried-up inkjet cartridges, good deal. Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Jones
darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32: > I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special > characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas > etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a > lot of 'world music' that use

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: > Hi, > > Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read > about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that > way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically > if I put the key in my SSH client at wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Jones
Norberto Bensa wrote on 08/01/09 01:11: > On Wednesday January 7 2009 22:01:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I guess I should have tried before asking! Every HOWTO/tutorial I >> googled seemed to really emphasize the "no more password entry!" >> aspect of key login. Thanks. >> > > That's right:

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

2009-01-19 Thread Dave Jones
Mick wrote on 19/01/09 11:31: > 2009/1/18 Mark Knecht : > > >> Indeed, I do have 4.3.3 installed and it is masked. I guess this >> must be one of those cases where the devs decided they didn't like >> something they used to like as I didn't do anything to unmask it >> myself. >> >> I removed

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Jim Cunning wrote on 08/05/09 06:49: >>> I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented >>> characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard >>> layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, >>> kmail and other windows, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 27/01/08 19:58: > I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing > guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the > default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My > printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 19:31: I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 02/02/08 22:26: > I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo > printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add > hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in > /etc/init.d. My printer

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/02/08 00:19: >> I've installed cups and hplip I cannot follow the Gentoo >> printing guide, because that worthy document requires me to add >> hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does not put anything in >> /etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: > > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 > > > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive > > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i > > got it back from the DiskSavers, alon

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Dale wrote on 05/02/08 22:44: >>> hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 >>> Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip >>> Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the >>> parport flag. >> Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have m

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding the port NFS runs on

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Jones
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote on 14/03/08 09:38: On Friday 14 March 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: How can I find out what port NFS is running on so I can let it through my subrouter? rpcinfo -p should tell you. Note that you might need to open other ports in addition to those used by nfs itself. In pa

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

2008-04-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Matt Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05: I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a dream until now. The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite ebuild missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Jones
Alan McKinnon wrote on 28/06/08 08:54: The ~x86 branch seems to have settled into not-so-cutting-edge anymore, quite similar to what other distros release - Ubuntu for examples. x86 seems to be taking it's lead lately from Debian :-) Would it were so! tcp-wrappers bug 158306, opened on 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Dave Jones
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote on 28/06/08 14:12: so, have you asked to become its maintainer to fix the bugs? Lacking the necessary skills, no. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Dave Jones
>>>But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was >>replaced by equery. >>qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into >>your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current >>location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

2006-01-24 Thread Dave Jones
It's best to install Windows first, as it always overwrites the master boot record, which destroys a Grub or Lilo setup. Grub is perfectly capable of booting Windows by 'chain loading' to the Windows loader. Booting linux from the Windows loader is a lot more complex. I'd recommend having a fat32

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Dave Jones
Robin Atwood wrote on 02/07/06 13:48: > I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the > kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a > reboot. After a bit of research I added: > # tun device for hercules > KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/tun" >

[gentoo-user] Open Office 2.01 US Intl KB missing single & double quote characters.

2006-02-13 Thread Dave Jones
Hallo, I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01 (stable branch), and am having problems getting Open Office to accept input single and double quote characters. I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and LINGUAS="en en_GB" in my /etc/make.conf Nothing startling

[gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-22 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, I was reading about the TARPIT target in the man iptables documentation, and thought I'd like to give it a try. Unfortunately though, it seems not to be supported in the 2.6.15-1 Gentoo kernel. Has anyone used the TARPIT target, or know of a way to get it into the current kernel? Any experi

Re: [gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Andrew, Thank you for the tip about TARPIT, the problem is now solved. To complete the fix I downloaded patch-o-matic-ng and the iptables source from netfilter.org: cd /usr/src svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/patch-o-matic-ng svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/i

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-07 Thread Dave Jones
Erik Westenbroek wrote on 03/07/06 04:18: > I am attempting create a tarpit to protect against SSH Brute force > attempts. I tried this: --snip-- > iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -p tcp -j TARPIT > After I type the last command typed I got this error message: > iptables: No chain/target/match by tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Andrew, Andrew Frink wrote on 03/08/06 14:57: > You could also just add the "extensions" USE flag to iptables and that > should give you tarpit support > On 3/7/06, *Dave Jones* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > Erik Westenbro

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Jim, I use privoxy as a peer cache for squid. It works fine across the local network, and seems reasonably fast and flexible. My first proxy is squid, which then calls privoxy as its peer. All my local hosts use squid as their proxy, and get the benefits of using both squid and provoxy. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Jones
privoxy combination. Cheers, Dave JimD wrote on 03/20/06 19:21: > Dave Jones wrote: >> I use privoxy as a peer cache for squid. >> It works fine across the local network, and seems reasonably fast and >> flexible. >> My first proxy is squid, which then calls privoxy as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Jones
H JimD wrote on 03/20/06 20:31: Both the http & https links work directly for me, though (naturally enough) not the dyndns.org link. http://mail.google.com and https://mail.google.com get me straight to the Gmail login page, both without the /mail/ suffix. I can offer no explanation for this, s

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

2006-03-25 Thread Dave Jones
Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: > I've been using nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 and nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 since > I upgraded the kernel to gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1, some time ago. It > works without problems. I emerged these versions (~x86) because the > normal ones wouldn't work. > > $ cat /

Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness

2006-03-25 Thread Dave Jones
Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 11:16: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: >> Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: >>> $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask >>>>media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 >>>>media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1

2006-04-15 Thread Dave Jones
Ralph Slooten wrote on 04/15/06 15:12: > I just rebuilt alsa-lib and alsa-utils as it was (now) complaining about > not being able to load. This seemed to fix the loading part. It suddenly > worked fine, both hw:0,0 and hw:0,1, but to test I rebooted, and the > same issue came back. > hw:0,1 works

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1

2006-04-15 Thread Dave Jones
Ralph Slooten wrote on 04/15/06 16:21: >>>Had similar problems here after the recent alsa-* updates. >>>Deleted /etc/asound.state, stopped kmix & alsasound, restart alsasound. >>>Ran alsamixer to setup various levels (default = mute), then alsactl >>>store when levels OK. >>>Restarted kmix, as it s

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1 (solved)

2006-04-15 Thread Dave Jones
Ralph Slooten wrote on 04/15/06 16:32: > I guess I just solved the issue ;-) > /etc/conf.d/rc > RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" => "no" > My guess is that something was seriously messing it up during the > parallel startup! After changing this to "no" (default) and rebooting > (tested 3x) it works

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware

2007-07-13 Thread Dave Jones
Michael George wrote on 13/07/07 12:07: > I see vmware-player has disappeared from portage. I did a quick search > and didn't find anything about why and haven't noticed it here. Is > there a URL to information on why it was dropped from portage? Not only had vmware-player disappeared, but also

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote on 19/08/07 20:43: > On Sunday 19 August 2007 20:16:16 Jan Seeger wrote: >> On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security >> issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml > No no no.. gentoo-wiki.com like gentoo-portage.com is in no w

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Jones
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote on 27/08/07 22:52: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': >> Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed >> with modern hardware. > Unless you want to use L

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - openssh and ldap

2006-04-20 Thread Dave Jones
Michael Sullivan wrote on 04/20/06 23:31: > I rebooted my server box this morning. On a few of the output lines > during bootup (noteably sshd and mysqld) it said "Could not connect to > LDAP server" (or something like that). To my knowledge, I don't have an > ldap server installed on my server b

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect > a RedHat style runlevel system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? > At the mo

[gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-04-30 Thread Dave Jones
I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. If I use IceWM, typing these characters works fine in OOo. I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/01/06 23:14: >>I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having >>problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double >>quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. > KDE overrides Xorg configs. > Just open the KDE's Control Center, select Regi

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Delca wrote on 05/02/06 17:52: > The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to > /var/spool/mail/username to other mail.. > i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The alias only sends the new incoming mails. Not the ones already on

Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

2006-05-02 Thread Dave Jones
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote on 05/02/06 19:27: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 18:16, Dave Jones wrote: >>>Someone knows how to solve this? >>cd /var/spool/mail >>mv oldname newname >>chown newname newname > What if the second account is not local? Copying the mail spool

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Jones
Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/03/06 00:04: >> What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, >> while all other applications work correctly under KDE. > Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use > some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8859-1 (t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Jones
Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/03/06 14:21: What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, while all other applications work correctly under KDE. >>> Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use >>> some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 05/03/06 14:31: > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 00:04, Jerônimo Backes wrote: >>Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use >>some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8859-1 (the default >>encoding). KDE has issues with UTF-8 and certain keboard layout

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 05/03/06 16:06: KDE has issues with UTF-8 and certain keboard layouts. >>>What kind of issues? Admittedly I have not tested KDE throughly but I >>>have been using KDE with UTF-8 for a few months now and I have >>>experienced no issues. >>This came out of my original que

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 05/03/06 19:39: > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 17:26, Dave Jones wrote: >>I've tried with the kcontrol Regional Keyboard settings enabled and >>disabled. No difference. The quote keys work only with AltGr pressed >>in OOo, but work normally in all othe

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 05/04/06 00:48: > It turns out I was wrong about this. If I type > # LC_ALL=POSIX oowriter2 > they don't work for me either. Same goes for LC_ALL=C. All other locales on > your list from locale -a they do work with. (Except en_GB.utf8 which results > in a lot of errors on

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 04/05/06 11:32: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:17, Dave Jones wrote: >>Bo, thank you *very* much, starting oowriter2 as you suggested using >>LC_All=en_US.utf8 oowriter2 worked, the us_intl keyboard now works as it >>should. > Glad to hear that. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 04/05/06 12:44: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:08, Dave Jones wrote: >>As a matter of curiosity, what errors did you get when you tried >>en_GB.utf8 on your system? > $ LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 oowriter2 > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
A. R. wrote on 04/05/06 16:18: > I am having a problem with CUPS. (I think) > I have Gentoo on my laptop and I was able to print just fine to any of > the network printers here at work, but all of a sudden this is not > working anymore. > When I try to print, it looks like the job is being sent t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Frédéric Grosshans wrote on 04/05/06 18:32: > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : >>Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an >>updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is >>finished printed fine, or if one is l

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 05/05/06 17:30: > How to force open office to type national (Polish) > fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the > document containing them but when I press the > combination "right alt-" it doesn't work. I've > installed open office as english(USA) version and > itshou

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-07 Thread Dave Jones
Martins Steinbergs wrote on 07/05/06 07:54: > On Sunday 07 May 2006 01:03, Bo Andresen wrote: >>On Friday 05 May 2006 17:30, Pawel K wrote: >>>How to force open office to type national (Polish) >>>fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the >>>document containing them but when I press the

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 08/05/06 17:57: > Thanx all of You for help but it didn't help. > I've selected both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8 > maybe there is something wrong with my following > option in xorg.conf: Option "XkbOptions" "grp:switch" > It is very important for me writing national > characters

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-09 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 09/05/06 17:28: >>Does composing the Polish characters work for you >>under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? >>What specific Polish characters are you missing, and >>how do normally compose them? It sounds as if you want to be able to produce accented characters such as

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:31, Dave Jones wrote: >>For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the >>locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. >>Without it, the ' and " keys are

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: >>For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the >>locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. >>Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. >>I don't understand why, but since I chan

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems [solved]

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Andresen wrote on 11/05/06 13:17: >>LC_ALL=en_GB.iso885915 oowriter2works fine. >>In fact, all the above locales except for C and POSIX work fine in >>OpenOffice. It seems that OOo does not depend on a utf8 locale, but does >>needs a local other the C or POSIX. > Which is what I stated on

[gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Jones
I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. This seems a bit too warm for my liking. Are these 'normal' running temperatures for these ATA 7200 RPM disks? Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
Mark Kirkwood wrote on 21/05/06 07:30: >> On May 20, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM >>> 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. >> When you touch the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
Benno Schulenberg wrote on 21/05/06 19:27: >>smartmonctl -a /dev/hdb gives the results below, which looks bad >>to me. I'd guess that my Hitachi second HD is heading for the >>great /dev/null. >> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000Old_age >>Always - 13573 > Drive has be

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH connection reset by peer

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Jones
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote on 01/06/06 00:33: > How can I control the idle time? I don't want ssh disconnection even > if the user is idle. > Read from remote host x.y.w.z: Connection reset by peer Add the following line to your /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ServerAliveInterval=300 Cheers, Dave -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about emerge -e world

2006-06-01 Thread Dave Jones
Walter Dnes wrote on 02/06/06 02:28: > I didn't intend to be running the emerge that long, but I wanted to > try the gcc upgrade on my emergency backup machine first. It's a 1999 > 03:26 EDT. The "emerge -e world" took 36 hours and 37 minutes... > 1) How do I resume the build? emerge --resu

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about emerge -e world

2006-06-01 Thread Dave Jones
Iain Buchanan wrote on 02/06/06 02:55: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> 3) A vaguely related item... will it make any noticable difference if >>I rebuild my kernel with gcc.3.4.5 and reboot at the end of the process? >>I may as well upgrade the entire system. > If you've

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 compile failure

2006-06-04 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, When compiling mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4 I get the following failure: nsModule.cpp:45:27: nsCharsetMenu.h: No such file or directory nsModule.cpp:46:34: nsFontPackageHandler.h: No such file or directory nsModule.cpp: In function `nsresult nsFontPackageHandlerConstructor(nsISupports*, const

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 compile failure [solved]

2006-06-04 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 04/06/06 19:39: > When compiling mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4 I get the following failure: > > nsModule.cpp:45:27: nsCharsetMenu.h: No such file or directory This problem was reported as bug #135495, and appears to be a parallel make issue. The work round is to mo

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Dave Jones
Richard Watson wrote on 05/06/06 10:34: > Hi all - I was running emerge --update --deep --newuse world over the > weekend when I had a power outage and my computer crashed. For some reason > ever since then I cannot login. If I enter Root at the login prompt the > computer thinks about it and then

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version xorg-x11-7.0-r1. However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by xorg-x11-6.9. I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 installed. OK, the new meta-package may be very nice, but I really don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Dave Jones
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote on 30/06/06 13:55: >> The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version >> xorg-x11-7.0-r1. > Just follow [1]. >> However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by >> xorg-x11-6.9. >> I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 insta

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 01/04/07 15:03: > Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by > the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: > unknown user "XXX" from "some IP address"'. I wrote a script which > automatically sets all connections

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Mick, Mick wrote on 01/04/07 20:44: >> Recently I was looking through my logs when I got pissed off (again) by >> the big number of lines showing something like 'sshd: auth. error: >> unknown user "XXX" from "some IP address"'. I wrote a script which >> automatically sets all connections from

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 01/04/07 19:10: >>> My question: what is the best way get this iptables module working w/o >>> diverting too much from the official Gentoo installation. I mean the >>> normal way is to use patch-o-matic to patch iptables source and vanilla >>> kernel source, then bu

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Markus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27: > ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice > (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch > version of STLport is installed: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 > Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Marcus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 02/04/07 02:27: > ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice > (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch > version of STLport is installed: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 > Looking

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Marcus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 03/04/07 00:13: >>> ATM we have the situation where the current stable version of OpenOffice >>> (2.1.0-r1) won't compile (at least on a lot of machines) unless an ~arch >>> version of STLport is installed: >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172860 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 03/04/07 05:13: > test ~ # cd /usr/src > test src # rm -rf linu* > test src # emerge -C gentoo-sources ; emerge gentoo-sources > test src # svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/iptables > test iptables # cd iptables > test iptables # svn update > At revi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resolve policy conflicts?

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Markus Markus Schönhaber wrote on 03/04/07 13:15: >> Recently there has been a lot of unpleasant noise about conflicts and >> disagreements among the Gentoo developers. I hope that they will resolve >> their (mainly political) problems soon. The stories have not been good >> for the image of G

Re: [gentoo-user] netfilter tarpit target

2007-04-03 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Daniel Daniel Iliev wrote on 03/04/07 05:13: > Unfortunately I had no luck. Clean kernel, the latest patch-o-matic, the > latest iptables and the same result. Obviously gentoo-sources is > incompatible with tar pit module. ;-( I just tried your update process and ended up with the same failure

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Garry Garry Smith wrote on 16/04/07 14:50: > My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no > thumbnails or images displayed) > Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) > What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support > for these two applications? You ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Jones
Jorge Almeida wrote on 06/06/07 15:59: >> That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable >> packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a >> personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so >> this doesn't happen to me again. So I'm i

[gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Jones
Yesterday I upgraded udev to 103, but have hit some problems with alsa configuration of multiple sound cards. I have an 'on board' Intel 8x0 sound card which I use for VoIP telephony, and a PCI Creative Audigy which I use to play music. The Audigy is configured to alsa as sound card 0, while the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem [solved]

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Jones
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote on 28/11/06 15:44: >> Yesterday I upgraded udev to 103, but have hit some problems with alsa >> configuration of multiple sound cards. >> Even worse is that udev seems to discover the sound cards in the reverse >> order to coldplug. My Audigy card becomes /dev/dsp1 and