Re: [gentoo-user] Python blockage problem.

2008-08-02 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 02 August 2008 05:54:35 pm Qian Qiao wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > python-updater says it is blocked by an old version of python. Yet I > > have an up-to-date version of python installed. This is keeping

[gentoo-user] Python blockage problem.

2008-08-02 Thread David Corbin
: 9,604 kB Homepage: http://www.python.org/ Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. License: PSF-2.2 -- David Corbin

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect fouled

2008-03-02 Thread David Corbin
ctually > exist? Apparently not. media-libs/mesa wass emerged, but I did not have the libGL.so you mentioned. Re-emerging mesa and then re-eselecting seems to have fixed things. Thanks > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- David Corbin Abolish the I

[gentoo-user] eselect fouled

2008-03-02 Thread David Corbin
PROTECTED] /home/dcorbin]# ls -l /usr/lib/libGL libGL.la libGLU.so.1 libGLw.so libGLw.so.1.0.0 libGLU.la libGLU.so.1.3 libGLw.so.1 libGLU.so libGLU.so.1.3.060502 libGLw.so.1.0 Suggestions for how to fix this please. -- Da

[gentoo-user] Unmerge failure

2008-02-23 Thread David Corbin
ld * located at '/var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/libxml2-2.6.27.ebuild'. * If necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution * of removal phases. -- David Corbin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

2007-04-22 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:51, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)" > > on my emerges. I've gotten for two different un-related > > projects. It seems to happen dur

[gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

2007-04-21 Thread David Corbin
I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)" on my emerges. I've gotten for two different un-related projects. It seems to happen during the "install". I've look at permission on / and they look normal to me. And I am ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging ATI drivers

2007-02-17 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:14, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-17, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting the following output while emerging > > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5. > > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.1

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging ATI drivers

2007-02-17 Thread David Corbin
/sandbox/sandbox-x11-drivers_-_ati-drivers-8.32.5-18092.log" open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.19/astest18195.out open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.19/astest18199.out open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.19/astest18209.out open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.19/astest18213.out -- David Corbin Learn more about

Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:23, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > This issue is specific to neither suspend2-sources nor ipw2200. You hit the > same issue with any other kernel if you emerge ieee80211. From the > ieee80211 ebuild: > > eerror "Your kernel source contains an incompatible version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-12 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 12 January 2007 10:40, Adrian wrote: > David; > > I'm having the exact same problems on one of my computers since I > upgraded to the latest X. I simply haven't gotten around to doing much > trouble shooting since I don't use that system very often. Thanks for > posting your solution, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-12 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:39, Avaricen wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > Success, but I can't explain it all. > > > > First, I removed 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ' from > > xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-11 Thread David Corbin
Success, but I can't explain it all. First, I removed 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ' from xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. Now, earlier I had problems with the WIN key not working for me as I wanted it to, and adde some xmodmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-11 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote: > Harm Geerts wrote: > > On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: > >> For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm > >> reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-m

[gentoo-user] CTRL-ALT-NUM+

2007-01-11 Thread David Corbin
For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1)

[gentoo-user] Samba ebuild problem

2006-12-16 Thread David Corbin
I'm getting this when I emerge samba. Is this an outright bug, or something wrong on 'my side'? ---snip--- ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-fhs --sysconfdir

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 09 December 2006 06:57, David Corbin wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find > > > out what to

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-09 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out > > what tool provides logger? > > AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the in

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-08 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:43, Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/7/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have exim installed, but I'm guessing it depends on "logger", It does. > which can be provided by either sysklogd or syslog-ng. > >

[gentoo-user] X11 screen saver

2006-12-07 Thread David Corbin
I have a recently upgrade my gentoo system, including X11. Now, instead of my KDE screen saver, I get a giant X11 logo. I cannot find where this should be turned off. Any pointers? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-07 Thread David Corbin
When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd -> start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbi

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios emerge failure

2006-11-30 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:30, James Colby wrote: > > /data/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1/../../../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux- > >gnu/4.1.1/../../../libdl.a(dlerror.o): > > > > In function `dlerror': > > : undefined reference to `__dlerror' > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make

[gentoo-user] Nagios emerge failure

2006-11-28 Thread David Corbin
Can someone help me around this problem emerging nagios-core? i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/CORE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging media-gfx/graphviz

2006-11-25 Thread David Corbin
I'm getting this emerging media-gfx/graphviz-2.8-r2: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby I have various "libruby" files about. Ideas? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-19 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 19 August 2006 13:09, Pablo Antonio wrote: > Quick answer: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4 Well, I look there, and like the example file, there is nothing about ppp and where to put all the ppp options. The closest thing is the ADSL, but it's not really

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net

2006-08-19 Thread David Corbin
I emerged a bunch of stuff this morning, and got this: --begin-- * Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file for all network * interfaces. Thus starting from >=ppp-2.4.3-r10 the following files * are obsoleted and should be removed to avoid future confusion: * /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0

Critical task upgrades (was [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?)

2006-08-05 Thread David Corbin
> It is a critical task, and as such, it needs to be done by an > administrator, under supervision, and, thus, by hand. If I wanted any silly > package admistration system messing with things like the default flags and > compiler, I would better use any other distro. > > The problem is that a sour

[gentoo-user] ppp0 and iptables

2006-07-29 Thread David Corbin
When I bring up my ppp0 connection, iptables is loading a whole bunch of rules. I cannot see where iptables is being invoked (I looked through /etc/ppp/ip-up*). Any ideas? Furthermore, I cannot find where the rules it's loading are written. I've looked in /var/lib/iptables, but there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

2006-07-21 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 21 July 2006 16:03, Nadav Horesh wrote: > After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to > text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop. The error > message I get: > > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; > fixing

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution

2006-07-18 Thread David Corbin
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 08:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Makara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...Could anyone tell me how to create my own > > linux distribution?... > > What exactly do you expect from "your own linux distribution"? > Some special functionality you are missing? Some speciall > i

[gentoo-user] kcmInit SEGV after x11 upgrade

2006-07-15 Thread David Corbin
I upgraded to X11 7.0. Now when KDE starts, I get a failure (SEGV something-or-other) from kcminit. I re-emerged kdebase-3.5.2 (which contains kcminit) to no effect. Ideas? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

2006-07-15 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 15 July 2006 09:27, Gentoo wrote: > After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the > following error from startx: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" >after 0

[gentoo-user] X11 7 will not start

2006-07-15 Thread David Corbin
(Sorry if this is a duplicate - without X, I've got primitive tools). --- After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the following error from startx: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 07 July 2006 15:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hi, > > This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that > fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things > can be improved in this wonderful distro. > > If I have more ideas I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-08 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 06 July 2006 19:43, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/6/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld > >: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so, may > > conflict w

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-06 Thread David Corbin
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:36, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/4/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking closer, my original copy of the error wasn't very complete. > > There are screenfuls of undefined references to various std:: symbols. > > Clearly m

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-04 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:10, David Corbin wrote: > On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:45 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 6/23/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? > > > > My first guess is "MAKEOPT

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-01 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:45 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/23/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? > > My first guess is "MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge --oneshot kdebase". If that > doesn't help, please

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-29 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:09 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: > > > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... > > > > It works great, But the interface sucks. > > What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than mak

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

2006-06-29 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:04 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:30:26 +0530 > > > > Aniruddha Shankar wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Willie Wong wrote: > >>> Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. > >> > >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2006-06-26 Thread David Corbin
> > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... It works great, But the interface sucks. > I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never > needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-06-23 Thread David Corbin
popularity.cpp: (.gnu.linkonce.t._ZNSt8_Rb_treeI7QStringSt4pairIKS0_dESt10_Select1stIS3_ESt4lessIS0_ESaIS3_EE13insert_uniqueESt17_Rb_tree_iteratorIS3_ERKS3_+0x33): undefined reference to `std::_Rb_tree_decrement(std::_Rb_tree_node_base*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [launcher

Re: [gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2006-06-17 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:08 pm, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > while attempt to upgrade my system, I'm getting this failure. > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. > > -I../../include -I../../include -I../../sr

[gentoo-user] -fvisibility=hidden

2006-06-16 Thread David Corbin
while attempt to upgrade my system, I'm getting this failure. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src -I../../src/xine-engine -I../../src/xine-engine -I../../src/xine-utils -I../../src/input -I../../src/input -I../../lib -DXINE_

Re: [gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-16 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:23 am, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:45 -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki > > page. > > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 >

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

2006-06-16 Thread David Corbin
While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr. Looking closer at what was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr. Can this be pruned somehow? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-15 Thread David Corbin
I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki page. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 When I run "equery d kde" as it suggests, I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/equery", line 1639, in ? cmd.perform(local_opts) File

[gentoo-user] mysterious blocking

2006-06-15 Thread David Corbin
When i try to upgrade 'stuff', (emerge -uavD world). Emerge shows that kdenetwork is blocking some stuff. ... done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/krdc-3.5.2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/lisa-3.5.2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/k

[gentoo-user] Debugging an ebuild

2006-04-30 Thread David Corbin
I would like to debug an ebuild that is not working for me. I've googled and not found anything terrible useful. Can anyone point me at a HOWTO or some such? When I tried to 'ebuild' a copy the ebuild outside of the /usr/protage directory, it complains that it "is not in a valid PORTDIR heir

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:02 am, Rohit Sharma wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > I am on home ADSL and I realise that although my resolv.conf is static > [since their DNS are fixed], I should still run ntp-client _after_ the > link to DNSes is up [via my USB modem]. I am yet to ensu

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
> What package is this rc-config command contained in? I don't have it on > my system, and as far as I can tell from Googling it's been obsolete > since 2004.3 in favour of rc-status. equery yields: app-admin/eselect-1.0 (/usr/bin/rc-config -> /usr/bin/eselect) rc-status seems like it's quite a

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging apache.

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
While I attempt to emerge apache, I get this: -- console -- checking for times... (cached) yes checking which MPM to use... configure: error: the selected mpm -- -- is not supported !!! ERROR: net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 161, Exitcode 1 end cut---

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 15 April 2006 12:14 pm, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:12 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > >> David Corbin wrote: > >>> "rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 15 April 2006 11:12 am, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > "rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" > > yields all sorts of things, many of which are 'default'. I'm sure I must > > not

[gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
When I boot my latpop, ntpdate doesn't work. It fails saying there is a "temporary failure in name resolution" it cannot lookup pool.ntp.org . After my system finishes booting, "/etc/init.d/ntp-client start" works fine. The script is running nearly last from the output, and after a few other

[gentoo-user] rc-config...

2006-04-13 Thread David Corbin
"rc-config list default" yields nothing for me, but "rc-config list" yields all sorts of things, many of which are 'default'. I'm sure I must not understand something. Ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-15 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:22 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > > > ntp-client is in my "default&q

[gentoo-user] subversion

2006-03-15 Thread David Corbin
Anybody have any idea when subversion 1.3 will available as an ebuild? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: > > ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs > > at boot time, I get this error message: > > > > 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516

[gentoo-user] ntp problems

2006-03-12 Thread David Corbin
ntp-client is in my "default" run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Operation not permitted 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, exiting If I run it as root m

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-28 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 27 February 2006 07:16 am, Philip Webb wrote: > 060226 David Corbin wrote: > > On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:01, David Corbin wrote: > >>> grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory &g

Re: [gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-26 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:01, David Corbin wrote: > > grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory > > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or > > directory libtool: link: `/usr

[gentoo-user] libungif?

2006-02-26 Thread David Corbin
While emerging kdegraphics, I get the following error: D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-excep

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
Thanks. That worked. David On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:31 pm, Max Lorenz wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/25/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > &

[gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0) -- Is there someone way I can work around this? I don't

[gentoo-user] Disappearing keystrokes....

2005-12-05 Thread David Corbin
Certain key combinations that used to work in my IDE (eclipse) no longer do. It appears to be something in the OS/X/window manager. I'm running KDE. I've looked through the Control Center and not found them assigned to anything. The two I know about are: CTRL+SPACE and CTRL+SHIFT+UpArrow.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Pin" an ebuild (mysql)

2005-11-10 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:31 pm, David Corbin wrote: > I recently did an "emerge -uavD world" like I ususally do, and it failed > trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1. Well, I'd really like to need to > keep 4.0 around. Is there some way to say, don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia

2005-11-07 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? > > Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start > > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh > > or > > mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 > mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 This doesn't work for me. I

[gentoo-user] "Pin" an ebuild (mysql)

2005-11-05 Thread David Corbin
I recently did an "emerge -uavD world" like I ususally do, and it failed trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1. Well, I'd really like to need to keep 4.0 around. Is there some way to say, don't upgrade mysql when I "emerge -uavD world"? Even better, is there a way to have both versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 07 August 2005 02:11 pm, David Corbin wrote: > Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild? ri18 doesn't > seem to be able to find it. > I noticed that USE flags were "-doc". I assume correcting this will make things better... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread David Corbin
Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild? ri18 doesn't seem to be able to find it. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [blocks B ] =kde-base/k

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:56 pm, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > and worse, even if I > > uncheck "Use gestures for activating the above features" and > > APPLY, it still beeps. > > Hmm, sounds like this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97425 > What version of KDE are you using now? Here 3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 08:58 am, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > > > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in > > > your kde control panel -> Regional & Ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde > control panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> Accessibility. > > M. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the fir

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate, > > > so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like > > > with CRT monitors where you buy the highest

[gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL

2005-07-23 Thread David Corbin
Since I upgrade my system recently (notably, a KDE upgrade, but lots of other things too), I've noticed a strange beep coming. It seems to only come when I've been holding down the CTRL key for a long time ( a few seconds with no other activity). But everytime I try to reproduce it conciously,

[gentoo-user] emerge failure

2005-04-27 Thread David Corbin
While emerging libquicktime, I get this: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include/quicktime -I../include -O3 -funroll-all-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -finline-functions -Wall -Wno-unused -Winline -c `test -f 'lqtplay

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 April 2005 08:45 pm, Willie Wong wrote: > > > > Now, the touch pad works, but movement is *very* slow. A full width move > > on the touchpad is about 50 pixels. I've tried playing with the various > > synaptic settigns (synclient), but I can't seem to adjust this in any way > > I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics (was Wacky Mouse)

2005-04-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 April 2005 07:36 am, Richard Fish wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > >This problem continues. I've discovered the following: > >1) The problem shows up with gpm, as well as X > >2) I can plug in a USB mouse and it works fine. > >3) If I boot into Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-23 Thread David Corbin
at's the likely hood this a hardware problem that only shows itself in Linux and not Windows? David On Monday 18 April 2005 09:39 pm, David Corbin wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 08:34 pm, Erik Osterholm wrote: > > On 4/18/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 18 April 2005 08:34 pm, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On 4/18/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: > Hi, > while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a > lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the > mouse protocol to PS/2 when the mouse device was really a serial > mouse, or vice vers

[gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-17 Thread David Corbin
Today, my mouse has gone wacky. Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 system on my Dell I8600. A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I believe that all worked well. Today, I did another update ("emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-10 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:36 am, Myk Taylor wrote: > A quick google search on 'Xlib: Protocol not supported by server' turned > up this link: > > http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t3241.html > > Short answer: get rid of the pertinent ~/.{x,X}* files > > Google is your friend.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-09 Thread David Corbin
m, Myk Taylor wrote: > All the scripts that kdm runs are in /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm. > Perhaps you need to look at Xsession, since that's what is run after kdm > authenticates your password. > > errors go into ~/.xsession-errors > > --myk > > David Corbin wr

[gentoo-user] KDM problem

2005-04-09 Thread David Corbin
Some time back after an emerge, I found out that logging into KDM would always fail. That is authentication appears to pass, the screen turns black, and then it brings me back to the KDM login screen. 1) What script(s) is KDM running when it authenticates a user. 2) What log files should I look