[gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or xfs, say -- and allow executables and such? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
how to improve that process? Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers? I'm not looking forward to the pains-taking process of vetting each and every one of the 231, but I don't want to be spending the time to recompile the presumed multitude that I never ever use. -- Kevin

[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for linux, but still get that message. about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/16/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. I've tried to view a cute youTube Code Monkey video, but get the complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking Javascript, which is false

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, but I have no name for my internal network, and haven't seen a reason to create one. Nevertheless, even the system calls getdomainname(2) and uname(2) return the string (none). What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. I

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/hostname ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
apparently successfully. My attempt to /etc/init.d/vmware start fails and suggests both of the above measures. This is pretty serious for me. Any suggestions? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me

[gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
; print /ul\n; print /body\n; -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages because

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. Care to: 1) share your code? 2

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
diagrams? Example: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman/453/projects/2/06f453-A2-stack.png Which is a bit blurry, even though I've tried to keep the pixels aligned. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Weirdness emerging pkgconfig

2005-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. !!! File: files/digest-pkgconfig-0.17.2 treat # ls files What's a person to do? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Weirdness emerging pkgconfig

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
never mind. The next emerge sync cleared up whatever the problem was. On 6/24/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new stable ebuild is refusing to emerge for security reasons: pkgconfig! Here's what it says: treat # emerge -aDvu world These are the packages that I would

[gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?

2005-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
passwords to these accounts, but as I said, I'd prefer not to. SO: is there a way to get cron(1) to run jobs for an account whose password is disabled? Perhaps by doing something to the shadow file that passwd(1) would not do? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Okay, thanks. They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and I would like my keystrokes echoed sometime today OTOH, where can I read about the others? ++ kevin On 7/5/05, Calvin Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cpu0 : 1.3

[gentoo-user] New KDE -- Konsole breaks ncurses

2005-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. Clues, anyone? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Printing woes; firefox incompetent; cups printer disabled and cannot enable

2005-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to the output of 'lpstat -t', and got the results one would expect. However, 'enable lp0' gives this odd error message: -/bin/bash: enable: lp0: not a shell builtin Now, this makes no sense to me at all. So, now I have a completely unusable setup. Any clues? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing woes; firefox incompetent; cups printer disabled and cannot enable

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. enable is a bash shell builtin (which acts on shell builtins, coincidentally; see bash(1)). Use '/usr/bin/enable lp0', or '`which enable` lp0', or 'enable -n enable; enable lp0'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the real state of things? Can I use any of them? All of them? What? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I should probably add, since processor speeds were listed on most boxes, that this is a dual Xeon (P IV based), (2 hyperthreads each for a total of 4) rated at 1.2 GHz. ++ kevin On 8/18/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time for me to get a DVD recorder for this system, so I went

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. Nevertheless, this is helpful (I think) because I was starting to lean towards a Plextor PX-740A-BP OEM drive. Now I'll wait to see what others say. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not to be malicious). ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin

2005-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
anything about this? I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using as an overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be happy to share if anyone is interested. Yes please. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of my emerges. I like to clean 'world' when I can. Anyway, just a pointer would be good.-- Kevin O'Gorman

[gentoo-user] libghoto2 emerge fails -- what to do?

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. !!! Function src_install, Line 85, Exitcode 2 !!! install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Emerge win fails -- what to do

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/portage/wine-20050111-r2/work/wine-20050111/documentation' !!! ERROR: app-emulation/wine-20050111-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 93, Exitcode 2 !!! docs !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
There is indeed. Thanks very much. ++ kevinOn 8/31/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's /var/log/emerge.logOn Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: How can I find out the last few things I emerged?I've tried the docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and my

[gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and backports. I see no signs of 2.0. How can this be, gen-too-ers? Surely, I'm missing something. What did I mess up?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
formula and see what happens. ++ kevinOn 9/7/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest and greatest. How odd it is that I can only find OpenOffice 1.1.4, where the FedoraCore machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:

2005-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! on the same system. treat portage # On 9/7/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest

[gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
behave better. No luck. I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in particular I should look for?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
suggest for backups/sharing of bookmarks? For control of popups/ads and script vulnerabilities? Surely there's a list somewhere for asking these things?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Managing FF/TB plugins in Gentoo

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
plugin, but 1) I don't see it in 'eix' or 'emerge -s'. 2) The instructions for installing from an existing Acrobat install are not effective with the portage-installed acrobat. Should I make a separate version from the Acrobat tarball? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Cannot see my own posts: configuring gentoo-users in gmail

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
in Sent Mail and move to Inbox and all is well. But it's a nuisance, and occasionally I forget. Are there settings somewhere that's making this happen to me? I've looked around and don't see anything offhand, but maybe my around isn't big enough. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
shows up in the list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the particular one... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing FF/TB plugins in Gentoo

2005-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just had a look at FireFox about:plugins and I'm both worried and confused. No surprise there; it happens a lot when I peek under the covers.:o) There are two versions of the Java plugin listed, with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess you're out of ideas then, except in desperation, I tried looking for just part of that: -W1 and came up with some stuff I hope will further inspire you: Nope, all

[gentoo-user] Emerging xinetd: big changes to config file

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of their head. Is this update actually likely to change the behavior in any ominous way? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
days back then, I would have saved myself this trouble, as some wiser folks made it clear why this was bad. Odd that only the one package was clobbered by this. Oh, well... ++ kevin On 6/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess

[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not anything obvious like a .kalarm file in my home dir. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE. It went okay except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone. I had hoped that they would be preserved like most configuration files. I have a recent backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7. ??? F1 gets generic KDE stuff, and it does not have chapters that I can see. Searching for kalarm doesn't do any good either. WHat am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things to salvage

[gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to make portage ignore this update but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade when I'm done teaching summer school. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 16:25, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: So: is there something simple I can do to make portage ignore this update but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade when I'm done teaching summer school

[gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild UD] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.2-r5 [1.6.5-r13] USE=doc -source 0 kB -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:11, znx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow': On 27/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open to debate. I'd think it's

[gentoo-user] Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
14336 Fri Jul 7 14:55:25 2006 treat init.d # SO: is it enabled or not? I guess I'll submit a bug, but I'd like to know if it's best to go back to cups-1.1.23-r7, which I had before, and for which I have a binary package. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server, but /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server, but /etc/init.d/cupsd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and I never seem to have the time. So I'm in continual crisis mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. Good! On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
: in plain English, is ewarn something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one that matches the version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. It seems to be saying I should know

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] So: in plain English, is ewarn something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? take a look to enotice

[gentoo-user] Message from gtk+ ebuild:

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The old gtkrc is available through the new Gentoo gtk theme. WARN: postinst Older versions added /etc/X11/gtk/gtkrc which changed settings for all themes it seems. Please remove it manually as it will not due to /env protection. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recent CUPS upgrade broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default AuthType Basic Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow /Limit Limit All Order deny,allow /Limit /Policy -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent CUPS upgrade broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/15/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There must be a good reason it isn't stable yet: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups On 7/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been running cups happily on this box for a couple of years. It serves print

[gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(Level 1, not much memory) so I might well be able to dispense with ghostscript if the pages weren't too complex. Another, of course is the PhD in my signature, given the bonehead moves I've made in the last week or so. Sigh. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you also have problems when printing as a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you also have problems when printing as a plain

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this any more than what I just did by emerging it. Anybody know what it's talking about? Anybody even know what toolchain-funcs it's talking about -- my browse through the portage tree comes up with no obvious candidate. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Why would it say that (rather than just doing it)? How would I comply (I truly have no clue)? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:37:05 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass It's a QA message from portage to the developer

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/22/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: WARN: prerm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Needs to be fixed by the maintainer of the ebuild. If you feel like it, file a bug (check first to see that there isn't already one

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/14/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore it. Isn't there some way they could flag such messages so it doesn't look like a peremptory command I have

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a new fresh crop. Am I then to understand that none of these messages will ever be warning ME that I

[gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to do that) and it may need to have the H flag off. Can anyone else who uses a static IP setup take a look and see what I'm doing differently? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/16/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: config_eth1=( 64.166.164.49/29 brd 64.166.164.55 ) gateway=( eth1/64.166.164.54 ) What's gateway supposed to do? In my net.example, there's no gateway=(). Is gateway=() something new? Routes are set with routes_

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. However, I can't get whereis or anything else to tell me where it found them. Is there some neat way to find the locations? I'd like to figure out which ones correspond to my actual software and to ditch the others. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware player screen resolution

2006-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for things I never even knew I had, let alone how they were configured) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
like to not be complicit in spam. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
all ~x86)? Something else? Summary: - how do I make an ATI driver - how do I make a speedo driver - how to get KDE working -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
that apache starts after vmware? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/16/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked up in the actual emerge, and now the driver does not exist

[gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of them are KDE things, but KDE seems to be working just fine. What's a guy to do? Can I get away with just waiting for a while? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
hope the documentation was clear for those common cases. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: That's good to head. I can't get the ATI module compiled in. I thought I was doing the right thing following the howto when I put this in /etc/make.conf, but it gets ignored

Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system comes up okay. I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: That's good to head. I can't get the ATI module compiled in. I thought I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I was under the impression my video card was too old for the binary driver. It's built into the motherboard but reports as ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39 does anybody know if the binary would help? ++ kevin You

[gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
product that works reasonably well with CSS style sheets. Anybody know of one. Free is good, cheap is acceptable. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dropped support for their viewer, and the most recent blurb promoting SVG relates to Illustrator CS2, when CS4 is the current version. I have CS4, but haven't learned to use it yet. Is there a future in SVG? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Explorer 8, naturally, requires a plug-in to view SVG. On Linux, my FF showed only the embed version, and that only after I got NoScript to stop blocking it. I wonder what's different on my system. Oh, and svg was enabled all along. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
module 'gentoo-portage' rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] --- ** April 21, 2009 ... And so on -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. Message follows: * Running emerge --sync

[gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the issue of how to find X docs. My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm hoping for fairly quick usage info. Does such exist? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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