Re: [gentoo-amd64] Konsole to show whats running?

2010-02-22 Thread Dieter Ries
Paul Stear schrieb: > Hi all, Hi, > I used to have at the top of my konsol a message that told me which item > emerge > was working on, For some time now I just see "root:python2.6" > I'm sure this is easy but I can't seem to find the info about changing what > is > displayed in the title bar

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically

2010-02-09 Thread Dieter Ries
Jim Seymour schrieb: > Hi, Hi, maybe not helpful, but doesn't hurt either: use df to see if theres still free space on your partitions. I remember having problems starting a windowmanager when theres no space available. > Thanks to all, > > Jim cu Dieter -- 3rd Law of Computing: Anyt

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-13 Thread Dieter Ries
Mansour Al Akeel schrieb: > Hello all: Hi, > today I did "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" in order to get the > latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but after many > attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working. long time no see, but I am still subscribe

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Dieter Ries
Mark Haney schrieb: Okay, I've been watching and waiting for KDE 4.1 to hit portage, via an overlay or otherwise. I've seen new HOWTOs on getting it emerged, but after my fun with KDE4.0.5 I'm a little more cautious. So, has anyone used the directions on installing KDE4.1, do they work okay?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive

2007-10-06 Thread Dieter Ries
Mark Knecht schrieb: > On 10/5/07, Drake Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Gparted live cd now has clonezilla incorporated, the claims for >> clonezilla suggest it would be perfect for your purpose. >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 >> >> link

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive

2007-10-05 Thread Dieter Ries
Put a new harddisk into your system, partition it as you like, and use tar -cSp --numeric-owner --atime-preserve -f - /mnt/OLD/* | ( cd mnt/NEW/ && tar -xSpv --atime-preserve -f - ) to copy your linux system/data/whatever. I have done so many times, this works perfectly, e.g. also to change files

Re: [gentoo-amd64] root partition full?

2007-08-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Marek Wróbel schrieb: > Dieter Ries wrote: >> I dont't know what you are using this machine for, but I think, 2.8G for >> / are not much. > > It is enough. Here is the output of `df -h` from one of my machines > (353 MB is used on /). Ok, I didn't see y

Re: [gentoo-amd64] root partition full?

2007-08-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Daemon Xavier schrieb: > kinda a noob with this, but any help clearing that area up be great! Have a look at /usr/portage/distfiles all the tarballs needed to install an ebuild are stored here and not erased, IIRC. So you can just erase some big tar's there, which should give you enough free spac

Re: [gentoo-amd64] qt compile problem

2007-08-13 Thread Dieter Ries
Mark Haney schrieb: > Okay I am getting ready to upgrade to KDE 3.5.7, and qt is bombing on > me, is anyone else seeing this: I think I had the same problem 2 days ago. Try: emerge -av fontconfig and perhaps, if it doesn't help, emerge -av XML-Parser first. cu Dieter -- 3rd Law of Computing:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] multilib question

2007-07-29 Thread Dieter Ries
Dieter Ries schrieb: > Any ideas? I don't want to file another bug if this isn't one. Sorry for double-posting, but it seems, I am not fast enough for gentoo's bugzilla ;-) The bug just got reopened, so it is most likely fixed there. cu Dieter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] multilib question

2007-07-29 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, I just recognized, that the ATI Catalyst Control Center didn't work on my laptop. I solved this by emerging emul-linux-x86-compat. Because I didn't find such a bug at bugs.gentoo.org, I filed it. I received a message, saying that my bug is a dup (which is right, I just didn't find the other o

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 3200+ -> X2 4000+

2007-06-30 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, Regis Decamps schrieb: > Fernando Boaglio a écrit : > The AMD cooler is th same from both CPUs. I have upgraded from a 3000+ single core 1,8GHz to a X2 4800+ dual core 2*2,4GHz some time ago. I am not using the stock cooler, I have an Thermaltake cooler. But what I experienced was, that the 4

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 3200+ -> X2 4000+

2007-06-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, Hemmann, Volker Armin schrieb: On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, Simon Cooper wrote: whats with the NUMA stuff? nothing. If you only have once cpu with two cores, don't use it! What exactly does that mean? None of those : [*] Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Support [*] Old styl

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fingerprint Reader

2007-04-14 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Samstag 14 April 2007 15:24 schrieb Olivier Crête: > Hi, Hi > > > > Has anybody got that working on amd64? > > I just got a x60s, which is a 32bit core duo. And the fingerprint reader > seems to be working perfectly with thinkfinger 0.3. Even in gdm (its a > pam module after all). it works for

[gentoo-amd64] Fingerprint Reader

2007-04-14 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, i just bought an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60. Gentoo is running very well, but I can't get the fingerprint reader working. The proprietary "tfm-fingerprint" is not working with amd64, and the free "thinkfinger" is a) not really stable b) doesn't work with KDM. I can use it with thinkfinger, a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Clock set to FACTORY warning.

2007-02-27 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Dienstag 27 Februar 2007 16:10 schrieb Martins: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:54:10 Mark Haney wrote: > > I've got a warning (or error) when I boot up or shot down saying that > > /etc/conf.d/clock is still set to 'Factory'. However, when I look at > > that file it actually set to 'local'.

[gentoo-amd64] Difference between march=k8 and march=athlon64

2007-02-23 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, is there any difference between those two march options? in the wiki they use k8 for singlecore and athlon64 for dualcore. i have an X2 4800+ and currently I am running with k8... cu Dieter -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'! pgpyhRuAPIWOw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-amd64] beryl on AMD64

2007-02-06 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Dienstag 06 Februar 2007 19:28 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Thanks David. > > I notice that many/most folks who have talked about it seem to run > NVidia. I have an ATI. Any reason you know why it won't run, or won't > run well, on ATI? It's just way easier if you have an NVIDIA Card. The ~amd64 Nvi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Compositing WM

2007-02-06 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Dienstag 06 Februar 2007 18:09 schrieb Mauro Maroni: > Hello list: Hi, > > Is anyone here using a compositing window manager? Yes! > I would like to give it a try but I have some general questions: > What is the best option for a Nvidia + KDE user? Beryl? Compiz? I am using Beryl and it's wo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense

2007-01-31 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Donnerstag 01 Februar 2007 00:17 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 23:56:33 Dieter Ries wrote: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2". > > > > revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages > > &

[gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense

2007-01-31 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output: All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2 =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh

2007-01-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 14:36 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:51:08 Dieter Ries wrote: > > how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to > > access the machine via ssh for a short time? > > Although this has been answered I th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh [SOLVED(2x)]

2007-01-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 13:46 schrieb Etaoin Shrdlu: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 13:05, Dieter Ries wrote: > > Thanks, thats been it. > > It's working perfectly, the only issue is that i am not able to detach > > a session which i am in. konsole seems not to pass the Ct

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh [SOLVED]

2007-01-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 12:58 schrieb Mathieu Seigneurin: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:51:08 Dieter Ries wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to > > access the machine via ssh for a short time? > >

[gentoo-amd64] emerge world via ssh

2007-01-28 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to access the machine via ssh for a short time? i have tried emerge -vD world & but that seems to stop before even the first ebuild is compiled. Then i tried putting the emerge command into a bash script, and running emergew

[gentoo-amd64] netmount and local

2007-01-05 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, I am just trying to shorten the booting time of my machine. rc-status gives me the following output: # rc-status * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] Runlevel: default xdm [ started ] ntp-client

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

2006-12-03 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Sonntag 03 Dezember 2006 16:48 schrieb Michael Weyershäuser: > Dieter Ries wrote: > > The problem I encountered was, that when I tried to start X with 8776, I > > got the following error message: > > > > API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0.962

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

2006-12-03 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, first things first: its working right now! Am Sonntag 03 Dezember 2006 00:23 schrieb Dmitri Pogosyan: > What are you talking about ? 8776 is long ago stable on amd64 > > > > > Using a minute to search on google can really help solve problems. > > 1. Stable nvidia is not compatible with xorg 7

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

2006-12-02 Thread Dieter Ries
resolution than the standard crashes X. cu Dieter Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 20:10 schrieb Duncan: > "Dieter Ries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:26:50 +0100: > > When I try to start X, there is a me

Re: [gentoo-amd64] URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes

2006-12-02 Thread Dieter Ries
Update: When I try to start X, there is a message, that the module i use is designed for ABI <1, and the XServer is running ABI 1, it says the server will run, but there may be funny behaviours. Indeed there are. cu Dieter Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:10:37

Re: [gentoo-amd64] XMMS and Mplayer

2006-10-24 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, Am Dienstag 24 Oktober 2006 19:37 schrieb Mark Haney: > So what's the deal with xmms and mplayer, when I went to update this > morning, this is what I get: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-sound/xmms" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to comp

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -s world faild with xdvik and timidity++

2006-09-03 Thread Dieter Ries
Am Samstag 02 September 2006 16:35 schrieb Duncan: > Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:28:00 +0200: > > two of 600 ebuilds of my --emptytree world with gcc 4.1.1 failed, xdvik > > and tim

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Dieter Ries
low, on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 > > 13:17:19 -0400: > > Dieter Ries wrote: > >> OK so there it is, gcc 4.1.1 is stable. > >> > >> i just emerged it and switched gcc-config to 4.1.1. > >> does it make sense to recompile gcc 4.1.1 with gcc 4.1.1? > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Dieter Ries
thank you. Am Donnerstag 31 August 2006 19:17 schrieb Bob Slawson: > Dieter Ries wrote: > > OK so there it is, gcc 4.1.1 is stable. > > > > i just emerged it and switched gcc-config to 4.1.1. > > does it make sense to recompile gcc 4.1.1 with gcc 4.1.1? > > (do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Dieter Ries
OK so there it is, gcc 4.1.1 is stable. i just emerged it and switched gcc-config to 4.1.1. does it make sense to recompile gcc 4.1.1 with gcc 4.1.1? (do you know what i mean? cu Dieter Am Donnerstag 31 August 2006 14:30 schrieb Simon Stelling: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Damn those pe

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: opengl issues in emerge world

2006-08-27 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, Am Samstag 26 August 2006 13:54 schrieb Duncan: > Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:44:02 +0200: > >> So, for the [problem of the ebuild not properly switching to xorg-x11 > >> opengl] try man

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: opengl issues in emerge world

2006-08-26 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, Am Samstag 26 August 2006 06:45 schrieb Duncan: > Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > excerpted below, on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:03:41 +0200: > > i am just doing a world update, and in two packages up to now, the euild > > failed wit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] opengl issues in emerge world

2006-08-25 Thread Dieter Ries
So here is the output of # emerge -avD xdriinfo These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] x11-apps/xdriinfo-1.0.1 USE="-debug" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> Emerging (1 of

[gentoo-amd64] opengl issues in emerge world

2006-08-25 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, i am just doing a world update, and in two packages up to now, the euild failed with some opengl errors i dont remember exactly. packages were -x11-apps/xdriinfo-1.0.1 and -media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.7-r1 i am just compiling the remaining 34 ebuilds of the world update, hoping that they wi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdebase-3.80.1

2006-08-20 Thread Dieter Ries
KDE 4 are made? cu Dieter Am Sonntag 20 August 2006 20:16 schrieb Richard Fish: > On 8/20/06, Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a possibility to try the sources of KDE4 without forcing gentoo > > to uninstall current 3.5.x Versio

[gentoo-amd64] kdebase-3.80.1

2006-08-20 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, is there a possibility to try the sources of KDE4 without forcing gentoo to uninstall current 3.5.x Version? cu Dieter -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'! pgpWMPXYNZkJt.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-amd64] boinc

2006-08-01 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, i had boinc 5.2.something running on my gentoo machine here for a long time, now i got my now dualcore, and this version didnt really support it well, so i decided to emerge a newer version, but now i cant get work because 64bit is notsuppported there. the first installation i had was made

[gentoo-amd64] upgrade to 939 ~fx60 | am2 ~x2 5000+

2006-07-23 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, currently i am running my gentoo on a 3000+ with 1g ram single channel. now i want to upgrade, so i am going to wait until next week, see how prices develop. but i am not sure if i should stay with my 939 board with nforce4 or buy also a new am2 board. are there support problems with am2

[gentoo-amd64] totem again

2006-06-28 Thread Dieter Ries
hi there, because my stable totem didnt work, i just emerged 1.4 which is masked ~amd64. i emerged it with all its depending gstreamer and -plugins. stable totem exited without any useful error message, 1.4 crashes at startup with $ totem (totem:1051): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge -avD world issues SOLVED

2006-06-17 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_ch >ap3 > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_ch >ap3 thank you, those two links did it -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'! pgpuOrBvRlVqr.pgp Description: PGP signat

[gentoo-amd64] emerge -avD world issues

2006-06-17 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, I have some questions about emerge -avD world: 1.: i have installed the nvidia-driver by hand, not the ebuuilds, because of some GL-issues. How can I update my system without installing nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx? 2.:I am using Gaim 2, so i have added it to /etc/portage/package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems after upgrading to 4GB Ram

2006-06-10 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, when i upgraded from 512MB to 1024MB, system got unstable, too. in my case the memory-chips didnt macht for dual channel mode. memtest didn't find any errors, but system crashed every 5 minutes. then i disabled dual channel and it worked, perhaps try that. cu Dieter > Original-

[gentoo-amd64] totem is not starting

2006-06-10 Thread Dieter Ries
hi, i have a new gentoo up and running after my glibc broke. everithing seems fine, but when I try to launch totem media player, it doesnt start but i see a windows with the text: "Totem could not startup." "No Reason." This is nice for totem, but i want it to work with no reason, not to exit w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] AGAIN URGENT: Re: Re: urgent: Segfaults after synchronously emerging|downloading 30GB|burnng a DVD iso image

2006-06-03 Thread Dieter Ries
.5.9/README.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/patch-2.5.9/NEWS.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/patch-2.5.9/ChangeLog.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/patch-2.5.9/AUTHORS.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/bin/patch --- !empty dir /usr/share/man/man1 --- !empty dir /usr/share/man --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc/

Re: [gentoo-amd64] AGAIN URGENT: Re: Re: urgent: Segfaults after synchronously emerging|downloading 30GB|burnng a DVD iso image

2006-06-03 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi all, my problem has not ended. aufter being happy that my system worked again, i now wanted to emerge -e system and world, but fater installing/uninstalling one package and Cleaning up, there are errors while scanning /etc, and then there are the segfaults again. i now have done your workar

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: urgent: Segfaults after synchronously emerging|downloading 30GB|burnng a DVD iso image

2006-05-27 Thread Dieter Ries
THANK YOU DUNCAN! YOU FIXED IT. or better, i fixed it, but i would have been lost without your help. the quickpkg thing did the trick. first i was in doubt, cause quickpkg is not on the livecd fs, but then i started thinking, and then i untared stage and portage and made the package. first i

[gentoo-amd64] urgent: Segfaults after synchronously emerging|downloading 30GB|burnng a DVD iso image

2006-05-27 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, i have a very severe and urgent problem: We had a gaming party tonight, and this morning at about 6 AM i was downloading 30GB of data from the local network, emerging world and burning a DVD iso image with K3b. Then the emerge stopped with some error i dont remember, and after that, ever

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hi and init problem

2006-05-08 Thread Dieter Ries
of the runlevels. cu Dieter Am Montag 08 Mai 2006 03:28 schrieb Richard Fish: > On 5/7/06, Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > with e3fs it only takes about 5 seconds to check, but i dont think it is > > necessary to check all the filesystems everytime i boot.. > &g

[gentoo-amd64] Hi and init problem

2006-05-07 Thread Dieter Ries
Hi, I am new to the list so i am going to tell you who i am and then ask my first question. my name is Dieter Ries, i am an 19 year old (yet)pupil from germany, near wiesbaden. i am running gentoo 2005.1 on my desktop (amd64 3000+) and on my laptop (P3 500MHz). my first problem is an init