[gentoo-amd64] Re: Unstable images in Firefox

2007-04-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: Quite often, when I'm viewing a Web page that uses Javascript to overlay a picture with enlarged sections of itself, I find a very rapid flickering of the overlaid section alternating with the background picture. Here's an example:

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Enlightenment window manager

2007-04-07 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 07 April 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've been using KDE happily for quite a long time now, but I wanted to see how Enlightenment compares. I've installed it on a new partition, but I can't find the Entrance display manager that seems to go with it. I can get it directly from its

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep broken x11-drivers/ati-drivers net-nds/openldap

2007-02-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tue, January 30, 2007 13:43, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: revdep-rebuild keeps throwing up these 2 as rebuild targets, yet rebuilding them has no effect whatsoever. This is my final 'problem' after emerge --depclean. Its a theoretical problem because I rebooted, restarted X/KDE, and no problems

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep broken x11-drivers/ati-drivers net-nds/openldap

2007-02-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tue, January 30, 2007 13:43, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: revdep-rebuild keeps throwing up these 2 as rebuild targets, yet rebuilding them has no effect whatsoever. This is my final 'problem' after emerge --depclean. Its a theoretical problem because I rebooted, restarted X/KDE, and no problems

[gentoo-amd64] Duplicate replies (was Re: revdep broken x11-drivers/ati-drivers net-nds/openldap)

2007-02-01 Thread Harm Geerts
Sorry, for the duplicate emails. I've had a little trouble with my local mailsystem, it won't happen again. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-01-31 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dieter Ries wrote: 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

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep broken x11-drivers/ati-drivers net-nds/openldap

2007-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tue, January 30, 2007 13:43, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: revdep-rebuild keeps throwing up these 2 as rebuild targets, yet rebuilding them has no effect whatsoever. This is my final 'problem' after emerge --depclean. Its a theoretical problem because I rebooted, restarted X/KDE, and no problems

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep broken x11-drivers/ati-drivers net-nds/openldap

2007-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tue, January 30, 2007 13:43, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: revdep-rebuild keeps throwing up these 2 as rebuild targets, yet rebuilding them has no effect whatsoever. This is my final 'problem' after emerge --depclean. Its a theoretical problem because I rebooted, restarted X/KDE, and no problems

[gentoo-amd64] Re: /lib32/* missing after system upgrade

2007-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:20, Ryan Sims wrote: On 1/9/07, Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:27, Einar S. Idsø wrote: Some further info: I just remembered that I also changed the symlink for /etc/make.profile. For some reason I changed it to point

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Amarok plugin problem

2006-12-21 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 21 December 2006 06:21, Denis Solaro wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:54:24 -0500 Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having this problem for a while now - I've been avoiding Amarok as a result. Not sure what the cause is, and I haven't had much luck searching for

[gentoo-amd64] Re: 3dnow* 3dnowext* mmx* mmxext* sse* sse2*, etc. on AMD64

2006-11-27 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 02:33, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that suddenly many CPU instruction flags for multimedia have become usable on my AMD64 machine and an emerge is indicated to rebuild a bunch of stuff. These have been off since I originally built the machine. I have no

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?

2006-09-27 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 08:30, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hello, My google digging wasn't helpful this time. Perhaps I can't find the right search keywords. ;-( On a 32bit gentoo system appropriate codec comes with media-libs/win32codecs and such movies can be played by mplayer. On amd64

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems emerging Gnome

2006-09-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 14 September 2006 00:03, Daniele Salatti wrote: The problem is that my make.conf doesn't contains all these USE flags as reported by emerge --info...I can't figure out where all the reported mess came from... This is because VIDEO_CARDS is unset and portage's default is to turn all

[gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?

2006-09-05 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 20:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:24, Sebastian Redl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?': On Tue, September 5, 2006 9:15 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Actually, kaffe (GPL-2

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Mplayer

2006-08-31 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:41, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: On 8/31/06, Ronan Klyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problems with video while installing xgl. I use xorg-x11 for opengl, and had to switch to ATI's opengl implementation for xgl. This broke video overlays. I reverted to xorg-x11

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1.1

2006-06-04 Thread Harm Geerts
On Sunday 04 June 2006 13:05, Michal Žeravík wrote: just for sure: when I emerge gcc-4.1.1 (besides my current 3.4.5), and any package won't compile, may I use 3.4.5 to compile that single package and then went back to 4.1.1 for any others? That depends, if the package in question is a library

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with Gentoo-2006.0 on AMD64 Athlon 3000+

2006-02-20 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 20 February 2006 15:49, Vitaly Kovalyshyn wrote: snipped Please don't quote such large messages, that doesn't really help. Did you turn up the volume for this soundcard? Alsa's default is off, you have to run `alsamixer` and turn it up to a decent level. (media-sound/alsa-utils)

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Modular-X: bug 121394 (-fweb) apply on amd64?

2006-02-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 13 February 2006 23:09, Simon Stelling wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: # emerge --info [snip] It is only that verbose when you emerge -v --info. Is emerge a alias for emerge -v? Doh, I should have thought about that myself :+ Thanks Simon -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: nvidia-kernel doesn't emerge: thinks I have rivafb on my kernel.

2006-02-07 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 20:10, Miguel Filipe wrote: Hi, I never touched this again... until now ... Even disabling IPV6_PRIVACY doesnt work... I'm still unable to perform the emerge. The nvidia-kernel package specifically looks for CONFIG_FB_RIVA and will never match on IPV6_PRIVACY

[gentoo-amd64] Re: nvidia-kernel doesn't emerge: thinks I have rivafb on my kernel.

2006-02-07 Thread Harm Geerts
Oops, wrong list. Obviously where I said x86 it should be amd64 :) -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-01 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 02 February 2006 00:01, Duncan wrote: I've seen a bit of what composite could do before, but it was always too slow. With kde 3.5.1 (just out and merged today) and xorg 7.0, both (along with qt) compiled with gcc 4.1.0-beta200601??, and a decent set of CFLAGS, all I can say is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:06, Gavin Seddon wrote: Dear Harm, thanks for the links. I endeavour to use the 'best' Linux I can (which, initially I thought was Debian). I save ALL useful correspondence. I thought problems and fixing them were a integral part to learning, as I am a new

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 19 January 2006 14:48, Etienne Imguimbert wrote: Maybe the package dbus has not been downloaded correctly. Remove it in /usr/portage/distfiles/ , Rerun also emerge --sync and then update. This would have been caught by the checksum comparison which portage does for all downloaded

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:01, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I ran the updater. I received ' * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 57 config files in /etc need updating. * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /usr/kde/3.4/share/config need updating. * Type emerge --help config to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Too much ~amd64 ?

2006-01-18 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:40, Michael Ulm wrote: 1) spending several hours checking out the ~amd64 packages I emerged, to see if they are available in stable, and which dependencies can then be brought back to amd64. As spare time is a rather scarce resource for me, I don't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Who downgrades hal and dbus?

2006-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:34, Michael Ulm wrote: I played with equery depends, but found no dependency on the old versions. Any ideas how to find and remove those dependencies? Probably not the nicest way but you could use this: find /var/db/pkg/ -name *.ebuild -exec grep sys-apps/dbus-0.23

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc wants emul libc.so.6

2006-01-09 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:51, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: # emerge --ask --verbose gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened

Re: [gentoo-amd64] provide net

2005-12-29 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:58, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: I've a simple question, not really AMD64 specific: why net.lo does not provide net? because net.lo is not usefull for a system that provides services. for example running a ssh server for net.lo is kinda silly :) I'm asking this because

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom?

2005-12-23 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 24 December 2005 01:16, Drake Donahue wrote: so change to: dev/hdc /mnt/cdromiso9660 noauto,user0 0 i trust you caught my typo - missing / in /dev/hdc /mnt/cdromiso9660 noauto,user0 0 And another one, /dev/hdc1 instead of /dev/hdc /dev/hdc = the disk

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom?

2005-12-23 Thread Harm Geerts
please ignore that last mail. it's time to go to bed :p -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ~amd64 vs. ~x86

2005-11-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 01:23, Mark Knecht wrote: On another list, music based, I was told by someone that using both ~x86 and ~AMD64 on the same system is incorrect by design. I have no reason to not believe him but I seem to have missed this point when I was building this system. Can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

2005-11-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Sunday 13 November 2005 14:39, Duncan wrote: Bug report? Not @ viewcvs. Besides, the man page calls it Ancient Cruft too, but it's still USEFUL cruft! The changelog of that revision mentions the bugreport. I'm not making it up I swear :) -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] windowmaker and kdm not working

2005-11-07 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 07 November 2005 14:46, DR GM SEDDON wrote: Hello, My Gentoo system graphics work when I s'tartx' However, I defined 'wmaker' as my default in '/etc/rc.conf'. When I startx I get a windowmanager similar to the windowmaker I am used to but instead of the 3 icons on the top right

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote: Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help It seems I broke portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild found it but it took twice to fix. depclean wants to get rid of tons of stuff though so I'm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
this concludes the course Maintaining Gentoo in a nutshell by Duncan and Harm Geerts :) -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 03 November 2005 01:52, Sebastian Redl wrote: Duncan wrote: What depclean does is starting from your world file (and including stuff in your system profile that's not specifically listed in the world file), figure out what each package listed there needs to RUN (run-time

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge kde problems

2005-11-01 Thread Harm Geerts
The reason it blocks is because you have other packages installed that depend on kde-base/kdebase. For example: kde-base/kdepim and kde-base/kdenetwork These are all part of the monolithic packages. First you'll have to make a choice between monolithic (grouped) and segregated (split). Once