[gentoo-user] Windows <->Linux Video Chat App

2006-05-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi guys, Would like to know if there's any app available which can do that. Gaim-VV seems to have stopped devel. Ekiga doesn't work on windows. Skype works.. but it's only audio on Linux. Anyone?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neurom

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mick wrote: On 05/05/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What model? You throw OpenWRT on it, if possible, and then all your documentation is then online. :) FWIW, Most linksys models automatically (layer-3) bridge 802.11a/b/g and all wired connections exception for the 'WAN

[gentoo-user] X problems (xorg7, ~x86)

2006-05-05 Thread Nich Steicke
hi all, i have recently been haveing problems running some applications, and am not sure why - or when exactly the problems started occurring. when running vlc, i get the following error (outputs to the console): X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operat

[gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-05 Thread JimD
Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running 24x7. I am no

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > make an emerge --newuse --ask world after you have finished. > > I'm not doing that again! Last time I tried that one night, > all day long, and it only did 38 of 283 packages or something. > It was *horrible.* > > Next

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-05 Thread Leigh Stewart
i found an even better solution... credit goes to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Windows_after_Gentoo#Installing_Windows (gentoo really shines in the support department) turns out that although windows will not create a new partition at the end of the disk, it has no problem installing

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, May 6 2006 3:27, kashani wrote: > Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes > > with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE > > flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : > > > > me

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, May 6 2006 5:41, Jure Varlec wrote: > For me, both worked well for normal usage. However, the in-kernel drivers > didn't support monitor mode too well (or at all), i.e. kismet didn't work. > I think firmware was the real culprit, but I'm not sure. Anyways, ebuild > drivers and firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use dhclient over dhcpcd, as I already have it installed and it has always worked nicely for me in the past (on BSD). What is the best way to go about configuring this? /etc/conf.d/net.example seemed a

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Teresa and Dale wrote: It had a bug, she tried to fix it and deleted something. Boat anchor after that. O_O Hence the concept of "not running as root"... ;) (and yes, it can apply to non-UNIX systems too) PS. Block 135-139, 445 and 3389 ports to/from the Internet at the LAN periphery

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread kashani
kashani wrote: It's important to note that the above only works for wmv8 and older files not the newer wmv9 codec that many sites/tools are starting to use. I don't believe there is any free decoder of wmv9 files on Linux at the moment. I take some of this back. I've got a custom mencode

Re: [gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 06 May 2006 01:08, Mick wrote: > On 05/05/06, Maurice E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At face value, I'd guess you have a dirty lens. > > I may suffer from the same problem on an old CD burner of mine. Is it > easy to clean the lens? Will it require dismantling? there are c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-05 Thread Leigh Stewart
Ok so i cant move swap into the 10Gbs i set aside for microstink at the end of the disk, so to move my root linux partition forward, should I be able to tar the entire filesystem from a livecd for example, then delete and recreate the partitions as needed, then untar the tarred filesystem into the

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging mythtv-0.19

2006-05-05 Thread Hani Duwaik
I'm trying to emerge mythtv but keep running into a problem with sandbox.Whenever I try to emerge, the compiling seems to work fine, but the installation fails and I get several 'Access Violations'.  It seems that instead of installing  into '/usr/xxx', mythtv is trying to go straight to '/' (ie: /

Re: [gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 05/05/06, Maurice E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At face value, I'd guess you have a dirty lens. I may suffer from the same problem on an old CD burner of mine. Is it easy to clean the lens? Will it require dismantling? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 05/05/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What model? You throw OpenWRT on it, if possible, and then all your documentation is then online. :) FWIW, Most linksys models automatically (layer-3) bridge 802.11a/b/g and all wired connections exception for the 'WAN' port, so yo

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:36, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > OMG > Will this thread ever stop? > It's been high jacked 5 times. > Will the guy that asked the original question please > either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to > create filters for this list? > > What does ge

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 08:23, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card': > On Friday 05 May 2006 08:44, William Kenworthy wrote: > > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 14:23, Teresa and Dale wrote: > I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think > I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not > sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did > trial and error to g

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 12:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > (snip) > > > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even > > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, > > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misi

Re: [gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Maurice E Johnson
At face value, I'd guess you have a dirty lens. On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:26 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: hi! I'm having serious problems with cdrecord (I actually use k3b, but it calls cdrecord). Every once in a while it used not to finish recording and exiting with errors. I lowered down the s

Re: [gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 06 May 2006 00:26, Matias Grana wrote: > Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 try replacing the cable. If that does not help, try a different burner. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Maurice E Johnson
OMG Will this thread ever stop? It's been high jacked 5 times. Will the guy that asked the original question please either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to create filters for this list? What does gentoo-wiki have to do with firefox in the hands of children? Tha

[gentoo-user] cd record does not record!

2006-05-05 Thread Matias Grana
hi! I'm having serious problems with cdrecord (I actually use k3b, but it calls cdrecord). Every once in a while it used not to finish recording and exiting with errors. I lowered down the speed to 8x (the burner reportedly can do a 52x) and this helped finishing burnings. But now I wasted 2 cds in

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 14:23, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Waay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(': > I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think > I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not >

[gentoo-user] All-in-Wonder 9800! TV use

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, Is there any one out there that has there All-in-Wonder TV in use on a AMD64 Gentoo / Gnome system? IF so what did you have to do to get it working and what are you able to do once it is up? Thanks ahead of time for your help! Sincerely, Christopher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 13:55, "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?': > 2) You will *NOT* get bug-support here or in bugzilla.gentoo.org for > packages marked as ~arch That is absolutely untrue. I run ~amd64 and I've never had trouble gett

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 19:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > (snip) > > > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even > > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, > > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misi

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with lm_sensors.

2006-05-05 Thread Sebastián Ferrara
El Fri, 05 May 2006 11:47:16 -0400 Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >Hey all. > >I've followed the Gentoo-Wiki HOWTO (which seems to be lacking a lot of >extra info), I've played with the lm_sensors website looking for >answers, I've been reading countless pages of RTFM, and what not - I'm >jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Cline
Ahh, here is the relavent section on dhcp: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap3 On 5/5/06, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. Howev

Re: [gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Cline
There used to be a networking howto on the gentoo website that explained the different options for the net scripts. However, I cannot seem to locate it anymore. Matt On 5/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use dh

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello Daniel, It now plays in all three players, the mplayer its self play very slow and gives issues so I am geting rid of it as it also IS not accessibile and if there is any one out there that is using it with a screenreader please come forth. So far xine plays both audio and dvds fine it app

[gentoo-user] Totem Movie Player Issue (DVD - Audio)!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, When I try playing a DVD cd in totem I get: a very flake totem, some times it playes and other times it does not, one time I click on a menu in a dvd and it closed another time I got a messeage of: Internal GStreamer error: pad problem. File a bug. Now if I click on the menu "Movie"

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/5/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mplayer dvd:// > > what is this and where do I do this? > From any console/terminal you just type it... OK when I do this, I am able to play DVDs in xine, mplayer, totem! mplayer dvd:// totem dvd:// xine dvd:// Well, configuration, there

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Jure Varlec
On Friday 05 May 2006 15:52, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Does anyone really know what the difference is? I originally used the > ebuilds because I could only assume that they will be more up to date. > But now I realize that new kernels come out pretty quick so I don't > think this is the case. Anyone ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did trial and error to get

[gentoo-user] Using dhclient on Gentoo for DHCP

2006-05-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
What is the best way to go about doing this? I would prefer to use dhclient over dhcpcd, as I already have it installed and it has always worked nicely for me in the past (on BSD). What is the best way to go about configuring this? /etc/conf.d/net.example seemed a bit cryptic about the prope

Re: [gentoo-user] ISSUE: ivman error after emerge!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello there, I did this to fix the issue, thanks for your post as it is what help me find this: "/sbin/depscan.sh --update" when I did it last time I did not have the --update on ti Sincerely, Christopher On 5/5/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher E wrote: > Hello Al

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 05/05/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks for the explanation. On 5/5/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/4/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if not, wait for it to get stable, this MAY save you some > trouble. The real question here

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
> mplayer dvd:// > what is this and where do I do this? From any console/terminal you just type it... OK when I do this, I am able to play DVDs in xine, mplayer, totem! mplayer dvd:// totem dvd:// xine dvd:// Well, I don't know much of gnome/had/dbus/automounter etc, but right now I would be h

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: > On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I just >> reinstalled it, it crashed, I may give it another go. Maybe this >> install has it. > > > The home edition also has the ping command. Bring up the c:> pro

Re: [gentoo-user] ISSUE: ivman error after emerge!

2006-05-05 Thread Teresa and Dale
Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > I am geting this error after emergeing ivman and type in this command > as follows: > > /etc/init.d/ivman start > > << snip >> > > * to try and fix this. > * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... > * Could not get dependency info for "ivman"! > * Pleas

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I just reinstalled it, it crashed, I may give it another go. Maybe this install has it. The home edition also has the ping command. Bring up the c:> prompt and ping your Linux box

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-05 Thread John Blinka
Daniel da Veiga wrote: How are the boxes connected to the network? A hub? A switch? Router maybe? Try using the network spot (where one of the failing boxes is connected) with a notebook or another machine that you know has no problems. Also check the cables and other network devices between th

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:35:44PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >> Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian > >>"Testing" and "Unstable". A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't >

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/5/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Daniel, > He mentioned an error that happens when he click the Gnome (or KDE, > can't remember) icon at the desktop. Not something he typed... Thanks for pointing that out! > Try simply NOT USING the icon, and using an application direc

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging runscript

2006-05-05 Thread Mick
On 04/05/06, Leigh Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: can anyone tell me how to trace through init scripts, which are executed by /sbin/runscript? with bash there is a nice little switch which does just that. i need to figure out exactly what those net.ethx scripts are doing because they clobbe

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello Daniel, He mentioned an error that happens when he click the Gnome (or KDE, can't remember) icon at the desktop. Not something he typed... Thanks for pointing that out! Try simply NOT USING the icon, and using an application direcly. OK, I have tryed this with mplayer, xine, cd playe

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo servers down?

2006-05-05 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 2006-05-05 10:49, Alexander Skwar uttered these thoughts: > Do other people also experience problems with http://bugs.gentoo.org/ > and http://packages.gentoo.org/ right now? The servers react extremely > slow and bgo is only showing me a > > À > > right now. It seems that (at least) bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 2006-05-05 19:11, Farhan Ahmed uttered these thoughts: > Well userlocales USE flag was there in glibc-2.4-r1 but it's absent in > glibc-2.4-r2.. But here's the weird thing, I had compiled glibc-2.4-r1 > with userlocales USE flag, in my /etc/locales.build I just have > > en_US/ISO-8859-1 > e

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > (snip) > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even longer - > and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, would you really > bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and will be found? In that case you should

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 19:49, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Farhan Ahmed wrote: > >> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > > >> > This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system > >> > functions no

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread kashani
Farhan Ahmed wrote: For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc It's impo

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/5/06, David Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I use VLC for this without any touble. You shouldn't mount the audio-cds or dvd, and and as far as I know you shouldn't write cdda:// when playing, the application should figure out that itself. He mentioned an error that happens

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system > functions normally.. Has anyone encountered same problem? Not me. I'm using -j2 on a singl

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I've yet to see a gcc process that claims 100MB of physical memory. Well, I haven't looked at memory usage, but when Qt or kdelibs is being compiled, the system gets quite slow and especially during linking quite some memory is used. Alexander Skwar -- We are what w

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello David, I have emerged this VLC and I can not get it to run, I have it under the sound and video menu and have clicked it and even restarted the system to see if that would help Sincerely, Christopher On 5/5/06, David Sveningsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I use VLC for this witho

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Jones
Pawel K wrote on 05/05/06 17:30: > How to force open office to type national (Polish) > fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the > document containing them but when I press the > combination "right alt-" it doesn't work. I've > installed open office as english(USA) version and > itshou

[gentoo-user] ISSUE: ivman error after emerge!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, I am geting this error after emergeing ivman and type in this command as follows: /etc/init.d/ivman start It then gives me this: * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Could not get dependency info for "ivman"! * Please run: * # /sbin/depscan.sh * to try and fix this.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:35, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. > > > Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say >

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread David Sveningsson
Hello, I use VLC for this without any touble. You shouldn't mount the audio-cds or dvd, and and as far as I know you shouldn't write cdda:// when playing, the application should figure out that itself. Christopher E wrote: Hello All, IS there any one that can help me get my audio cds and

Re: [gentoo-user] OOM-Killer upon compilation/emerge on AMD64 (was: Re: why firefox is so slow?)

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 18:43, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > [ 1151.984829] Swap cache: add 71, delete 71, find 0/0, race 0+0 > > [ 1151.984831] Free swap = 995736kB > > [ 1151.984833] Total swap = 996020kB > > [ 1151.984834] Free swap:995736kB > > Errr, that basically says nearly full swap spac

[gentoo-user] Playing Audio and DVD cds!!!

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher E
Hello All, IS there any one that can help me get my audio cds and dvds to work, i have tryed so much I don't know wht I have done and I would put all here but I don't, I am geting the: Couldn't display "cdda:///dev/hda". /etc/init.d/ivman start * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/5/06, John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I help out with a local school using an ltsp server to run 50-60 ancient pentium boxes as terminals. I've run gentoo and ltsp on this server for almost a year without problems. However, a few weeks ago there had been a sudden power outage (

[gentoo-user] OOM-Killer upon compilation/emerge on AMD64 (was: Re: why firefox is so slow?)

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 17:28:06 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an example: > > [ 1151.984763] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2, order=0 Huh? If I understand Linux' memory management correctly that says that the OOM condition was triggered by trying to reserve 1 pa

[gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-05 Thread John Blinka
Hi, I help out with a local school using an ltsp server to run 50-60 ancient pentium boxes as terminals. I've run gentoo and ltsp on this server for almost a year without problems. However, a few weeks ago there had been a sudden power outage (and no ups) which took the server and terminals d

[gentoo-user] Trouble with lm_sensors.

2006-05-05 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I've followed the Gentoo-Wiki HOWTO (which seems to be lacking a lot of extra info), I've played with the lm_sensors website looking for answers, I've been reading countless pages of RTFM, and what not - I'm just slightly frustrated trying to get lm_sensors to work. http://gentoo-wiki.co

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > (snip) > > > > PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. > > Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say > > gentoo-wiki cannot be trusted just because it can be edi

[gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-05 Thread Pawel K
Hello How to force open office to type national (Polish) fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the document containing them but when I press the combination "right alt-" it doesn't work. I've installed open office as english(USA) version and itshould stay like that. I want to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
This is an example: [ 1151.984763] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2, order=0 [ 1151.984767] Mem-info: [ 1151.984770] DMA per-cpu: [ 1151.984772] cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 used:3 [ 1151.984775] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 used:1 [ 1151.984776] Normal per-cpu: [ 1151.984779] cpu 0 hot: low

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > (snip) > > > > The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile > > because of ooms. > > > > with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with > > -j2. > > This is the

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> (snip) > >> > >> The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not > >> compile because of ooms. > >> > >> with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 16:06, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:49:29 +0530 Farhan Ahmed > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not > > > compile because of ooms. > > > > > > with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> (snip) >> >> The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile >> because of ooms. >> >> with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2. > > This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Christian Limberg
William Kenworthy schrieb: Thanks, as the in-kernel ones didnt work, I'll try the external. BillK Hm, did you compile the in-kernel ipw2200-driver as a kernel module? If the driver is built-in, it will not work, because the driver cannot load its firmware before the kernel has booted. As o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > But here's the weird thing, I had compiled glibc-2.4-r1 > with userlocales USE flag, in my /etc/locales.build There *is* no file called /etc/locales.build. glibc-2.4-r2 uses /etc/locale.gen to determine, which locales are to be generated. > But with 2.4-r2 there is no such

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, May 5 2006 23:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Does anyone really know what the difference is? I originally used the > ebuilds because I could only assume that they will be more up to date. > But now I realize that new kernels come out pretty quick so I don't > think this is the case. Anyone ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >>> Sven Köhler wrote: My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) never creates such locales. >>> >>> There's no such flag as "userlocales". >>> > > Sorry, I cannot help with the issue but I do know there is a userlocales > flag, No, ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Anyway have you changed your locale > settings from .UTF-8 to .utf8 Yep. But most importantly, I setup the /etc/locale.gen file. > (all environment variables etc.,)? Is your > system working fine now? Yes, it is. Alexander Skwar -- QOTD: "If I'm what I eat, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:49:29 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not > > compile because of ooms. > > > > with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as > > with -j2. > > This is the first time I'

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fire-eyes wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 08:44, William Kenworthy wrote: >> I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. >> Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in >> portage? Is the a configuration g

[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Köhler
> I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? I would use the ebuilds. You're much more flexible that way in the case, that you experienc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Sven Köhler wrote: > >> My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) never > >> creates such locales. > > > > There's no such flag as "userlocales". > > > > Sorry, I cannot help with the issue but I do know there is a userlocales > flag, I use thi

[gentoo-user] Error compiling portage after an Tcupdate

2006-05-05 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Hi, I'm trying compile the portage (2.0.54.1-r1) after made an tcupdate -t. The tcupdate seems to run ok, except the last compile of the portage. When i try to run emerge portage, i get this error message: gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc" error: command 'i586-pc-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the > > > universe. > > [SNIP] > > > They're too slow > > > > Not really. > > You must no

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, as the in-kernel ones didnt work, I'll try the external. BillK On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:07 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote: > Bill, > > William Kenworthy wrote: > > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales? > >> > >> 2.3.6-r3 or 2.4-r1 > > > > No. Glibc-2.4-r1 used .utf8 locales. > > That might be. Then I wonder, why I had no problems with .UTF-8 > when I was using 2.4-r1. As I wrote, it might be, that my

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread fire-eyes
On Friday 05 May 2006 08:44, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage?  Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? Some will say in kernel, some will sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Sven Köhler wrote: >> My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) never >> creates such locales. > > There's no such flag as "userlocales". > Sorry, I cannot help with the issue but I do know there is a userlocales flag, I

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > (snip) > > The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile > because of ooms. > > with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2. This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system functions nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Sven Köhler wrote: >> (snip) >> >> > What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales? >> >> 2.3.6-r3 or 2.4-r1 > > No. Glibc-2.4-r1 used .utf8 locales. That might be. Then I wonder, why I had no problems with .UTF-8 when I was using

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-05 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thanks for the explanation. On 5/5/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I am instaling a new gentoo box with x86, and I have a doubt about > instaling xorg, I know that 7.0 is masked but almost getting stable, > a

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Mike Markowski
Bill, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? You want the portage builds. I'm going by memory (laptop is a

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 13:17, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="" > > > > > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > > > > > > > -j1 is a good one for singlecore/single cpu computer, where the > > > > compiling is running in the background. > > > > > > No for singlecore/single cpu computer, -j2 i

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, May 5 2006 22:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? > > BillK > > -- > William Kenworthy <

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Sven Köhler wrote: > (snip) > > > What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales? > > 2.3.6-r3 or 2.4-r1 No. Glibc-2.4-r1 used .utf8 locales.. Just as an example of .utf8 usage even before glibc-2.4 read this Gentoo Weekly NewsLetter: http://www.gentoo

[gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card

2006-05-05 Thread William Kenworthy
I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Even when my system was running glibc-2.4-r1 the UTF-8 denomination was > .utf8.. Maybe with -r1, both denominations were correct. That might be true. But with -r2, only .utf8 is correct. Or, if .UTF-8 was wrong in -r1, then no application and the glibc didn't know about th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Sven Köhler wrote: >> (snip) >> >> I also looked it up on a Redhat-System: no .UTF-8 locales. >> >> >> What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales? >> (i don't remember to have seen that over the last few years) > > I think some .UTF-8 locales were used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Sven Köhler wrote: >> Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then, >> I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because >> the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8: > > .UTF-8 changed from .utf8? Yep. > That's not true. Wrong, it i

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