Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles
Hi. Nothing compares to Chromium (browser) in terms of compilation times. On my system with 12 core threads it takes about 8 hours to compile - which is 4 times longer than 10 years ago with 2 core threads ;) Libreoffice takes a few hours, but less than half of chromium. Nothing gets close to Chromium. But otherwise webkitgtk and qtwebengine are to big ones - but still about a quarter of Chromium. Kristian Poul Herkild Den 11.09.2023 kl. 21.19 skrev Alan McKinnon: After my long time away from Gentoo, I thought perhaps some packages that always took ages to compile would have improved. I needed to change to ~amd64 anyway (dumb n00b mistake leaving it at amd64). So that's what I did and let emerge do it's thing. chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a while, but I didn't record time. What other packages have huge build times? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] KMail, multiple accounts and separate folders
Hi there. Thunderbird has a setting to create multiple mail accounts with separate mailfolder-hiearachy (inbox, draft, outbox, sent, trash) for each account instead of putting all mails in the same folder hierachy (as does Evolution in Gnome). Does anybody know where to find that or an identical setting in KMail? So far the solutions I've seen of separating mail accounts in KMail have been identical to those of separating mail accounts in Evolution (e.g. blend all the mails together in one big box and then manually create filters to more or less succesfully move them to subfolders within the same folder hierachy). Filter-based solutions are not wanted, since they do not work when people are sending the same mail to several of my accounts (one folder will receive multiple copies, and other folders will not receive the copies relevant to them). Kind regards, Kristian Poul Herkild
Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/cpuinfo
lør, 27 11 2010 kl. 23:52 +, skrev James: Hello, Here's some thing that I'm at a loss to understand. cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy bogomips: 2009.17 and a different machine: cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 2210.892 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy bogomips: 4422.07 Why is the 4600+ so (under_reported) light on the MHZ and bogomips? it should be 2400 MHZ? and more bogo mips? Ideas? Without a doubt the result of that darn CPU throttling thingy (CPU frequency scaling). Read more here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml Kind regards Kristian Poul Herkild
Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah! Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling* -kristian poul herkild -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?
James skrev: I only ask because Sun just paid a billion dollars for MySQL http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html How is it that Open Source is for sale? GPL? Is gentoo next? James FLOSS != Gratis. There is no problem in buying either Open Source or Free Software. FLOSS is not against Capitalism you know. It is merely against MS EULA's ;) -kristian herkild -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Insanely long delay in loading xorg+gnome
Graham Murray skrev: Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The second stage (the insanely long unexplainable delay) takes the mentioned ~12 minutes. There is no harddisk activity at all. The only thing I have is a black screen and the black'n'white standard X-cursor (though it does react instantaneously on mouse movements :p ). That sounds like the sort of delay you might get if it is waiting for a TCP connection attempt which gets no response (eg DROP rule in iptables). Aaahh... yes. Found it. Loopback problem. net.lo wasn't running (don't ask me why). Thx for pointing me in direction of networking :) -kristian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Insanely long delay in loading xorg+gnome
Heh... Well, good morning to all in the list. I've run into a silly issue with loading xorg+gnome. I've split the process in three stages. 1) Loading xorg (startx). This stage works as expected and takes ~1 second. 2) Insanely long delay. This stage is weird and takes ~12 minutes (have measured it several times, though slightly imprecise). 3) Loading Gnome 2.20. This stage works as expected and takes ~1 second. After the third stage everything works fine and smooth and near-instantaneous (quite opposite Windows :p ) The second stage (the insanely long unexplainable delay) takes the mentioned ~12 minutes. There is no harddisk activity at all. The only thing I have is a black screen and the black'n'white standard X-cursor (though it does react instantaneously on mouse movements :p ). Does anybody know where to look for information useful to find the problem. I haven't found any logfile with any information related to this weird delay, which of course is consistent with the complete lack of harddisk activity. Kind regards, Kristian Poul Herkild -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk
Johannes Skov Frandsen skrev: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.asp, but totem just bitches about 'no uri handler implemented for mms:'. Hm, mplayer likes those streams and plays them fine. So since AFAIK totem uses gstreamer, I'd try using the gst-plugin-ffmpeg -- hopefully, it includes the ASF demuxer (I think so), and, more important, makes gstreamer aware of mms:-URLs (I'm not all that sure about this...). I installed mplayer and I can now play the stream without problems. Still wonder why I have no frontend for vlc and why it will not play the streams thought. In order to get VLC with a graphical front end you need to enable the USE flag wxwindows for VLC. Add it to /etc/portage/package.use -Kristian Poul Herkild -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
Oh well... I've been battleling with my Silicon Image PCI ATA-133 controller. I've spent the last 7-8 hours trying to compile a working kernel with support for the extra IDE controller. But so far I've failed. I've tried several combinations (with/without support for CMD0680 - with/without xtables - on 2.6.18 and 2.6.19) - and have tracked the problem to the PCI IDE controller. I've googled for hours as well, but I have no clues but one: Enabling support for the PCI IDE/PATA Controller apparently pushes the device names for the on-board IDE/PATA controller (e.g. /d_ev/hdd becomes /dev/hdh). Is that even possible? That the extra PCI ATA-Controller takes precedence over the on-board Controller? Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild --- Output from lspci: 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02) Error message on boot: VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel-Panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED) VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
Neil Bothwick skrev: There is a kind of logic to that; if you fit a bootable PCI controller, there's a good chance you want to boot from it, so it appears first. If your root partition is not on this controller's disks, you can compile the driver as a module, then /dev/hd[a-d] will already be allocated to the onboard controller before it is loaded. IT WORKS! IT WORKS! :D Thanks for confirming my theory and suggesting compiling support as a module (should've thought of that). IT WORKS!! :D :D :D ... But I still think it's a kind of perverted logic, but it works :D - thank you thank you :) Now, my dear oracle. Please tell me Denmark beats Spain tonight ;) Kind Regards Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How was the PHP upgrade?
Grant skrev: Has anyone upgraded to the recently stable php-5.2.1-r3? How did it go? - Grant No problem here. Everything went fine, and my CMS still works (even the bugs still work :) ) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)
Ow Mun Heng skrev: Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time. It is most likely due a bug in one of the plug-ins. I usually have beagle-helper running at close to 100% because of some SVG-files with malformed XML. You might want to take a look at the FAQ at Beagle's website. Beagle is not supposed to take a lot of resources, nor wasting CPU-cycles while running in an endless empty loop. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)
Jürgen Geuter skrev: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:09 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time. Beagle is quite a resource hog and will keep your system busy whenever it finds it to be idle, that is the reason why I decided to ditch it (I wasn't using the search functionality that much anyways). You could make sure that beagled is not started upon login, that way it will not do autoscanning of your files and only start when you use it. regards Jürgen Beagle is not supposed to use an awful lot of CPU-time, except for rare peaks. If it uses a lot of CPU-cycles for more than a few seconds it's a bug - most likely in a plug-in. Especially the SVG plug-in tends to have issues. The memory consumption is however quite high. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
Dave V skrev: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the packages. Dave Well, you can always use VLC. Or perhaps Rhythmbox. I prefer VLC. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xterm can't find libXaw.so.8 after Xorg update
Walter Dnes wrote: So X runs, but no xterms, with an error message about not being able to find libXaw.so.8. First, I checked to see what was available... m3000[root][~] ll /usr/lib/libXaw.so.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6 - libXaw6.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 1 02:33 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 - libXaw7.so.7 Then I kludged together an ugly workaround... [m3000][root][~] cd /usr/lib [m3000][root][/usr/lib] ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8 Much to my surprise, the damn thing actually works. But I know that somewhere down the line, this will come back to bite me. How do I get the real libXaw.so.8 built? Aaa... that was an ugly hack. Reminds me of my LFS-days :P When you encounter broken packages, you should run revdep-rebuild --pretend, watch the output and if necessary run revdep-rebuild without --pretend. That is the right way to solve such problems. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems with locale - ANSI_X3.4-1968
My locale is supposed to be da_DK.ut8 but is reported to be ANSI_X3.4-1968 The problems started after having updated to Gnome 2.14 and baselayout. Before that it worked fine. Anybody familiar with this problem with UTF8 and ANSI_X3.4-1968? -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with locale - ANSI_X3.4-1968
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 02:14, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: glibc version is: 2.3.6-r4 Output of locale -a: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory So there is obviously something wrong with your locale. Output of grep -v '^$\|^#' /etc/locale.gen da_DK.UTF-8 UTF8 At least on my computer (running glibc-2.4-r1) that must be: # grep da_DK.UTF /etc/locale.gen da_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 Note the dash in the second UTF-8. Without it I get errors resulting in a bad locale. Output of grep -v '^$\|^#' /etc/locales.build da_DK.UTF8/UTF8 Just delete /etc/locales.build. /etc/locale.gen is replacing it. Then run: # locale-gen after making the above change to /etc/locale.gen and see if that solves anything. Yup, it worked. I still wonder how I managed to forget the dash in UTF-8 considering how familiar I am with that particular locale. I must have been mentally sleeping after having updated the baselayout. The funny part is that I cannot even remember having touched it at all in 2006. My memory must be detoriating ;) But thanks for the help. Things work fine again :D -Kristian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage weirdness...
Yann Garnier wrote: Dear gentooers ...snip... Calculating world dependencies ...... done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) Unmerge pam-login and utempter and reemerge shadow -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up. Note that I'm _NOT_ talking about those modules that have to be compiled in such as for your filesystem. This is about the other ones. I generally like to load them at boot-up. One reason is that I have heard that for suspend or hibernate to work, some modules have to be unloaded. On the other hand, compiling them in results in faster boot times. So, what do gentoo-users think? Tony I have 23 modules (loaded), most related to the soundcard, and a few related to nvidia, a few for the webcam. It appears I could unload 4 modules but the rest are necessary, and cannot be compiled inside the kernel without breaking functionality of other drivers, or applications. -Kristian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Hmm... after having updated to portage 2.1 which has become stable, I get this weird output from emerge and revdep-rebuild: OUTPUT from emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-fs/samba-3.0.22 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 USE=-mozilla* [ebuild R ] media-gfx/autotrace-0.31.1-r1 USE=-imagemagick* [ebuild R ] net-ftp/proftpd-1.2.10-r7 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2.2 USE=-curl* -ldap* [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.20-r3 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.13 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.3 USE=-ldap* -sqlite* [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.4.2.1 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 USE=-nas* [ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.5 USE=-nas* [ebuild R ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 USE=-nas* [ebuild R ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.4 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.13 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.12.3 USE=-cdr* [ebuild R ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3 USE=-ldap* -nas* [ebuild R ] dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.7 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] dev-python/gnome-python-2.12.1 USE=-gtkhtml* [ebuild R ] dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.12.0 USE=-mozilla* [ebuild R ] media-video/gpac-0.4.1_pre20060122 USE=-mozilla* [ebuild R ] net-misc/openssh-4.3_p2-r1 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] media-sound/timidity++-2.13.2 USE=-nas* [ebuild R ] net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 USE=-idn* -ldap* [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r1 USE=-nas* -sqlite* [ebuild R ] dev-java/swt-3.2_rc2 USE=-mozilla* [ebuild R ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2 USE=-ldap* [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1 USE=-ldap* -mozilla* [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-5.1.4 USE=-curl* -ldap* -mhash* -sqlite* [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.12.3 USE=-guile* [ebuild R ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.0.1-r2 USE=-mozilla* [ebuild R ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 USE=-guile* [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 USE=-gtkhtml* [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.3 USE=-cdr* [ebuild R ] app-emulation/wine-0.9.8-r1 USE=-ldap* -nas* [ebuild R ] www-client/elinks-0.10.6 USE=-guile* -idn* -lua* - OUTPUT from revdep-rebuild --pretend All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --pretend =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 USE=-ip32r10k% [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 - Recompiling that much (especially OpenOffice) just because of an update to Portage seems quite excessive to me. - Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Mick wrote: On 11/06/06, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... after having updated to portage 2.1 which has become stable, I get this weird output from emerge and revdep-rebuild: [snip . . . ] Recompiling that much (especially OpenOffice) just because of an update to Portage seems quite excessive to me. As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums, etc.) USE flags which had been set automatically by certain packages are no longer valid universally. Therefore, either add those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap mozilla for OOo) in your /etc/make.conf, or if you only want them for a particular package add them in /etc/portage/package.use. HTH Thank you :) That explains it. 'ldap' and 'mozilla' added to make.conf. I wonder why I didn't have them there already. Oh well.. fire up nano! -Kristian Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Teresa and Dale wrote: Well, I noticed that when I ran revdep-rebuild -p mine wanted to reemerge gcc too, so I let it. Then I went back and ran revdep-rebuild again and it still wants to reemerge gcc. I did the next thing I could think of and did a emerge -e system. When I ran revdep-rebuild -p again afterwards, it wanted to reemerge gcc again. Same as the OP, why does it want to go in circles reemerging gcc?? :-/ Dale :-) :-) Lucky bastard. At least you can compile GCC. -Kristian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1
Mohammed Hagag wrote: i just want to know if any one here have built a full desktop with gcc-4.1.1 without problems ? i have some problems with xf86 video drivers and some other ebuilds. i did a bootstartp from normal stage3 and i'm doing emerge -e world now but some important packages did not compile most of the with errors about glibc include files. any one here know any thing about these problems ?? It works fine here. A few packages (mostly GNUstep ones) fails to compile with GCC-4.1.1 (at least with my configuration), but we are talking very few packages. Just remember to do 'emerge -e system emerge -e world' and you'll be fine. -Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/pam-login
JimD wrote: I get this message when trying to do an emerge -vpuDN world: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies . ... done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow? I thought that was part of system? Jim I saw it mentioned a few days ago (or yesterday or some such). I just ran into it five minutes ago, after having done emerge -e system emerge --sync emerge -p -e world I think I read the solution to be unmerging pam-login and leave it so. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] For the benefit of John Laremore
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I lived most of my life as an American farmer, we don't want him either! Michael W. Holdeman He reminds me of Jerry Taylor from Tuttle County. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.1.1 Problems
JimD wrote: Jason Weisberger wrote: List, I figure upgrading to GCC 4.1.1 from 3.4.5 wouldn't be such a pain, right? WRONG. So far I've had just about every problem under the sun, mostly in the form of filesize errors which I wouldn't think would be related to GCC, but then again: app-admin/perl-cleaner x11-proto/xextproto x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.1.2 I had this same issue with app-admin/perl-cleaner. I think there is a bad tarball on some of the mirrors. I grabbed this one: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/perl-cleaner-1.03.tar.gz and saved it to /usr/portage/distfiles and then ran this (one line): ebuild /usr/portage/app-admin/perl-cleaner/perl-cleaner-1.03.ebuild digest Now it merged in fine. Jim Well, I'm using GCC-3.4.5 and I had the same problem with app-admin/perl-cleaner. It's not GCC-related, and it's not exactly the first time we've had to make our own digests ;) Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!
Alexander Skwar wrote: JimD wrote: Ptitjack wrote: Hi, 404 Error Not found ! - Ptitjack - Your not in the USA. It is blocked by Google for non-US people right now. Wrong. How do you get this idea? However you can work around that by using NYU proxy: Or by going directly to http://picasa.google.com/linux/, instead of some strange proxy. Alexander Skwar It works now, but not in the beginning. When the first news arrived, I couldn't get access to it unless through a translated page. You can see the same problems being discussed at OSN. The reason can be anything, but fact is, we couldn't get access in the beginning. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: I saw a few reports on /. and digg that it was only accessible from within the US. It may have been a temporary issue that was resolved or perhaps there was no issue and it was simply user error. On Saturday, 27 May 2006 5:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006 04:30:22 +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: From what I understand it is only accessible from the US. Worked here from the UK. Works also from Germany. It would be interesting to find out, from where Raymond got his understanding. Alexander Skwar -- Yes, but every time I try to see things your way, I get a headache. Well, I couldn't access it earlier today (when at school - right in the holidays), and only got access by translating the download-page to German. From my home pc it works fine. Kristian Poul Herkild. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cvsweb - error: permission denied
I have a cvs-repository on my gentoo box, used in my exam project. However, cvsweb gives following error when trying to access the module in the repository: Error: eksamen/: Permission denied It's no doubt something really stupid, but I can't seem to find the solution. Googling didn't bring up anything particularly helpful. cvs-web version is 1.112 Kind regards, Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! I thought the sensible thing was GNUstep+WindowMaker ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] No ebuild for mysql-extras-20060316
After this mornings emerge --sync, mysql-4.1.14-r1 is marked as stable. But when doing emerge --update --deep --newuse world, I get following error during compiling of mysql: !!! No message digest entry found for file mysql-extras-20060316.tar.bz2. !!! Most likely a temporary problem. Try 'emerge sync' again later. !!! If you are certain of the authenticity of the file then you may type !!! the following to generate a new digest: !!! ebuild /usr/portage/category/package/package-version.ebuild digest But there is no such thing as mysql-extras. So I'm confused. Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 22:49 +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Emerging seahorse fails with following error: ... mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/ update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime. Try rerunning me as root. ... !!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2 !!! install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. what about the dir permission?? Here's mine $ ls -ld mime drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 31 18:26 mime Apart from dates it's identical to the output I get. -Kristian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote Are you running this as root? Yes. I always emerge as root, since my ordinary user isn't in the emerge-group. So basically this: 1) su - root 1.1) writing password and pressing enter 2) emerge seahorse 2.1) failure because it is not running as root. Weird... -Kristian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse
Emerging seahorse fails with following error: ... mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/ update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/ update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime. Try rerunning me as root. ... !!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2 !!! install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. And yes, I'm emerging it as root, having done a su - root Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it...
Daevid Vincent wrote: OMG! 'links' pulls in _92_ package dependencies?! That's silly. What confuses me even more now, is that AFAIK, links is (according to the man page) lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser, so why then all the x11 dependencies and such. Shouldn't this thing, by definition, just work in console mode without all that extra crap? I solved this by adding this to /etc/portage/package.use: www-client/links -X -directfb -fbcon gpm -javascript -jpeg -livecd -png -sdl ssl -svga -tiff -unicode But what seems silly to me is that why does this have jpeg, png, tiff support if it's in console mode? Will links actually SHOW an image? I've NEVER seen it do that (on any other linux box, even with X support) You probably didn't add -X and so on to your make.conf. And yes, links2 can show images when compiled against this and that. That's what it's doing on my machine, and it works almost as well as dillo. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'
Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 [0.8.11] ping-pong ... ;) Have I messed up my tree? If so, I am asking for some tips on how to fix it. I've got the same problem. Upgrading downgrading upgrading downgrading... This time I'll just leave it downgraded. It still works the same. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. Well, the code _can_ be loaded, without being executed, and therefore taking up RAM. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 11:07 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: I still use ext3 for / and ext2 for /boot. I get confused about all the others. I don't grok that. *cough*FAT12*cough* is all you need :p (and 640KB of ram is enough for everybody). Personally I use ext3 for everything except windows partitions. I have 3 NTFS-partitions, and one FAT32 partition. The freeware read/write ext2-driver for Windows doesn't work with Windows 2003, so I have to use FAT32. Especially because captive-ntfs aren't working for me. Kristian Poul Herkild. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
Anthony Roy skrev: I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much as KDE, which is great IMHO. -- Ant... I prefer Gnome, but KDE has some nice elements as well. Use what works best for you. The look and feel of Gnome is what I like the most. I'm only lacking some more advanced configuration options. KDE however has some nifty things, and I've considered installing it on my own system, even though I prefer to have only one DE (well apart from those I test, like EDE and Gnustep). -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:17:43 -0700, Richard Fish wrote Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yup, and that's because he can't do what _he_ wants to. His complaints have been acknowledged to some extent. I agree with him in his criticism, but I still prefer Gnome. I lack the more advanced options, but the rest of Gnome is still to my liking. Personally I still believe using the DE which is best for you, is the best choice you can make. Be it Gnome, XFCE, EDE, KDE or whatever ;) The best DE would probably be a combination. Based on the IDs of mail applications used in gentoo-user I think KDE is the most used DE. 55% KDE vs. 35% Gnome seems realistic to me. Kristian Poul Herkild -- No patents on software! Copyright is no right! -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OO.o 2?
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Use /etc/portages/package.keywords to put this in. app-office/openoffice ~x86 With what you did you will use ~x86 on everything. On Thursday 22 December 2005 00:56, Martin S wrote: Before my crash I had installed OpenOffice 2 on Gentoo, now going by ~x86 (again!) I still am not getting to emerge OO.o 2. It is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf isn't it? Regards, Martin S OpenOffice 2 is marked as stable and has been so for a while ;) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems compiling sid plugin for xmms
XMMS-SID Version is: media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.7.4 Libsidplay version is: media-libs/libsidplay-2.1.1 Compiling xmms-sid yields this error: xmms-sid.cc: In function `void* xs_play_loop(void*)': xmms-sid.cc:199: error: using typedef-name `AFormat' after `enum' xmms-sid.cc:199: error: invalid type in declaration before '=' token xmms-sid.cc:208: error: invalid conversion from `int' to `AFormat' xmms-sid.cc:237: error: invalid conversion from `int' to `AFormat' make[1]: *** [xmms-sid.lo] Fejl 1 make[1]: *** Venter på uafsluttede job xs_fileinfo.cc:50: warning: unused parameter 'widget' xs_fileinfo.cc:50: warning: unused parameter 'data' c++: -lstdc++: linker input file unused because linking not done make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xmms-sid-0.7.4/work/xmms-sid-0.7.4/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Fejl 1 Anybody in here familiar with sid-playback in xmms? -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hmm... Divx5 and Xvid playback
I'm having the darn weirdest thing going on here. In earlier days I never had playback issues with DivX5 nor XviD on linux, but with gentoo I'm running into some weird problem with playback. AVI-files encoded with XviD (XVID MPEG-4) and DivX 5 usually gets played back with multi-colored or greyish horizontal bars in the right side of the picture. I believe it is a library issue, considering movie playback is identical in Totem and VLC, while the problem is completely nonexistent on the windows platform (also in VLC). -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X.org process using a lot of resources
Peper wrote: Hello, I have recently noticed that one of the X.org server's processes is using a lot of resources: X :0 -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 is using 15% of cpu nearly all the time. xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6 Is this a known problem? That happens for me occasionally (with the process going on like forever), but haven't suffered from it in several days. I don't know how it starts nor how it stops. But I'm glad the server behaves itself right now. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia
I'm trying to get X.org to work with the drivers from NVidia instead of the nv driver, so I can play bzflag and so on. But when I'm trying to load X.org with the nvidia kernel it freaks out complaining about no screens. It looks like this: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Where do I start to make it work _my_ way? Kind regards, Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia
Michael 'entropie' Trommer wrote: * Kristian Poul Herkild ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: first, thats _not_ an xorg problem. I'm trying to get X.org to work with the drivers from NVidia instead of the nv driver, so I can play bzflag and so on. But when I'm trying to load X.org with the nvidia kernel it freaks out complaining about no screens. It looks like this: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: nvidia (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Where do I start to make it work _my_ way? i guess your nvidia card is an old one (lspci). i use a gf 2ti and there are some issues with the new kernelversions and the nvidia driver (read about that on nvidia.com) at least i got all working fine: Linux violet 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 #2 and the 6626 nvidia driver (i think thats the right version, but iam not sure) as binary/installer from nvidia.com. So long -- Michael 'entropie' Trommer; http://ackro.org PGP-fingerprint: 9420 1FCB 23AE 4875 D57D 9B36 0417 7CC9 EE51 82E4 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GMU d--- s:--- a-- C UL P L+++ E+ W+++ N o-- K- w--- O- M V- PS+ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5- X+ R+ tv-- b++ DI-- D- G++ e h r y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Aaahhh... that's why. Yeah, it's quite old. An old GF2 MX400 :p ... it's almost blasphemy to call it a graphics card. I'll see what I can find then ;) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)
Michael 'entropie' Trommer wrote: from gentoo-user-de: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6 kernel: 2.6.12.5 xorg: 6.8.2-r6 Those were the nvidia versions I was using, and xorg too. The kernel however is 2.6.14-r4. Partly solved: I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run from nvidia.com and it works now as far as X.org it self. At least I have Gnome running. And got that flashy logo too. Gotta turn that one off ;) However, I still can't play bzflag. But I got closer, nonetheless. _glxgears returns following:_ Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. _nvidia-settings (under menuitem OpenGL/GLX information) return following:_ The OpenGL extension 'GLX' is not supported by the X server or there was a problem retrieving GLX information from the X server. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)
Luis Ortiz wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: [more...] _glxgears returns following:_ Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. _nvidia-settings (under menuitem OpenGL/GLX information) return following:_ The OpenGL extension 'GLX' is not supported by the X server or there was a problem retrieving GLX information from the X server. -Kristian Poul Herkild Do you have: Load glx in the modules section? Section Module # [some other modules...] Loadglx EndSection -- Luis Ortiz Yup # This loads the GLX module Load glx and it's within the Module section. All it took was to uncomment the line. But it's not bad. I got the nvidia kernel to work and that's a major step forward. However, AGPGART was not compiled as a module but compiled directly into the kernel which means NvAGP cannot be used, so now I'm recompiling the kernel with AGPGART as a module and I've added Option NvAgp 3 to /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... and then I'll have to do the nvidia-kernel dance again and if that doesn't do anything I'll come screaming again ;) But at least the nvidia-kernel _does_ work :) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)
Steven Susbauer wrote: I've always had agp compiled into the kernel and never had a problem with the nvidia driver. I don't know how much you've done, but have you made sure that the system is set for nvidia opengl? I think if it weren't it might explain why it's not saying no screens found with the nvidia driver, but glx isn't working. eselect opengl list - is nvidia the one with the * by it? Wow... a whole new world opened there... eselect :p Well, it's installed by now including eselect-opengl ;) eselect opengl list returns following: Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 So yes, the system is set for nvidia opengl. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia (partly solved)
Double-answering ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to execute the command # NVmakedevices.sh before starting X it works for me,cause the ebuild did not make the files in /dev. Bert Berrevoets Woot :p ... I did that and it worked partly. Now I'm getting this instead: glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Bryan Green wrote: You may have problems getting AGPGART to compile as a module, and my experience has been that its just as well to use the kernel's AGPGART for recent kernels. There are several places you should be looking. First of all, be sure and read the NVIDIA driver README, particularly the Troubleshooting section. Get familiar with /proc/drivers/nvidia grep for NVIDIA in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. See anything interesting? try dmesg and see if it says anything about agpgart. By the way, did you emerge nvidia-glx? -bryan I had no problems compiling agpgart as a module and it loaded perfectly during bootup. dmesg shows nothing peculiar. I'm only a bit sorry about the tainted message, but that can't be any different, as long as NVidia ships with such a license. /var/log/Xorg.0.log however shows this: (II) LoadModule: glx (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: glx (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) That's a tad weird considering I did an emerge nvidia-glx but perhaps I have to do something different when I'm using non-portage nvidia drivers? -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia - SOLVED
Damn... That was weird... I uninstalled the kernel from nvidia's .pkg.run file and added the same nvidia-kernel to package.keywords with the corresponding nvidia-glx versions. And then emerged them again... And guess what? It *censured* works! :D Thanks to all of you who helped out here and there and everywhere. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Arrghh,,, X.org and NVidia
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:36:08 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Yeah, it's quite old. An old GF2 MX400 :p ... it's almost blasphemy to call it a graphics card. I'll see what I can find then ;) i put these lines in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep the NVidia drivers working with a TNT2. =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7664 =media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7664 Exactly the solution I ended up with ;) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia cards - compile in kernel or?
I'm just about to recompile my kernel, but am in doubt. Last time I compiled my kernel I was using the drivers shipped with gentoo-sources and compiled them inside the kernel. Now, I've shifted to the nvidia module and is in doubt whether I should compile any kind of nvidia support in the kernel or just leave it out, only using the nvidia module (basically should I compile the kernel with framebuffer support for nvidia or not? - would they conflict?) Sorry for being lame about this - I'm sure the answer is obvious (for somebody else than me). Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?
Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: O3 makes binaries much, much bigger. Bigger binaries need more cacheload time. So bigger binaries are slower a lot of time. -fomit-frame-pointer is fine, fmpgmath=sse may or may not make your apps slower or faster. msse, mmmx, m3dnow are (mostly) harmless. Should I change the -O3 to something else? I have another rig that may need smaller binaries. The drive is full. This may help on it too. What you think? Dale :-) Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at all (and sometimes the gain is negative). If space is the most important issue you might want to compile for smallest possible binary, e.g. -Os -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?
Robert Crawford wrote:
On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
-mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers
performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by
-march=athlon-xp), and should be removed from your cflags line, but SHOULD be
placed in your USE= line, wthout the - sign, like this:
USE=mmx 3dnow sse
If you use gcc-3.4.4, these flags should work fine (I've used them for a long
time- no problems).
CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -ftracer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -falign-functions=64 -fno-ident
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
Hmm... according to this thread
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43648 and the GCC manual -march
does not imply -mmx -msse -m3dnow, nor does it imply mfpmath=sse. I know
of no consensus of -mfpmath=sse lowering performance. Actually, I only
know of the opposite from the LFS-community as well as Gentoo Wiki.
I don't want to start a flamewar on this, so if you have other and more
correct information than me, then please share it :)
-Kristian Poul Herkild
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[gentoo-user] Compiling ThunderBird for specific locale
Does anybody know how to compile TB 1.0.7 for a specific locale. I'd prefer to have it in danish, but I've no idea how to make it compile for danish. FireFox was solved by installing a language package, but it doesn't seem to work for ThunderBird. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Restore - /usr/portage/packages
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:45:00 -0600, Dale wrote I started my download of OOo2 last night, slow dial-up here. It does not appear to be masked any more. /etc/portage/package.keywords app-admin/gkrellm ~x86 app-office/scribus ~x86 x11-base/xorg-x11 ~86 sys-kernel/linux-headers ~x86 net-www/netscape-flash ~x86 app-sci/foldingathome ~x86 No open office there. You resync lately? LOL Dale :-) Aaahh.. but I compiled OOo2 several days ago. Haven't noticed it was transferred to stable - no need to check since it worked ;) Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary
Joseph wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:01 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: Did you import your settings from an older OO version? I had that issue with the binary version upgrading from 1.x. So I did a clean install with the source code version. Uwe What do you mean import your settings from an older OO version? I had a binary version installed, so what I did was un-merge binary version 1.x first and compile OO 2.0 from source code. He probably meant your user-settings. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Restore - /usr/portage/packages
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:48:29 -0700, Joseph wrote I was constantly getting error after emerge sync so I removed rm -r /usr/portage/packages. Now, for example openoffice-bin-1.1.5 will not upgrade automatically to openoffice-bin-2.0. What is causing it? Is there a way to restore /usr/portage/packages ? Yes, I have created /usr/portage/packages - directory after removing it. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list OOo2 is masked as testing ( ~x86). You have to add OOo to package.keywords before you can update it. Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary
Joseph wrote: Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from binary. I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for 7-hours already. It's likely to take somewhere around 8-11 hours on such a machine. It took somewhere around 10 hours for me on a 1500 MHz Athlon XP with 1 GB RAM. Whether or not you can benefit from compiling is unknown to me. But it's more fun ;) - Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
