Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled by update world pretend output

2006-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 May 2006 22:49:59 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've started an update after a couple of mnths of not keeping updated. > After emerge sync and installing latest portage I run: > emerge -v uDp world > I see this in the output... only showing a couple of dozens of lines > like this (wr

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 23:21 schrieb ext Richard Fish: > What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin > scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any > filesystem could gain transparent compression. Hmm, wouldn't that be a device mapper task, just like dm-c

Re: [gentoo-user] choosing different xservers (xorg.confs) as needed?

2006-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:49:00PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote > Is it possible to choose between different xorg.conf files depending > on your needs? What I mean is, can you get startx or xinit to choose > a config file other than the default? I do that myself. I normally run at 1280x1024, but

[gentoo-user] Puzzled by update world pretend output

2006-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've started an update after a couple of mnths of not keeping updated. After emerge sync and installing latest portage I run: emerge -v uDp world I see this in the output... only showing a couple of dozens of lines like this (wrapped for mail): [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:02:01PM +0200, Nagatoro wrote > Bo Andresen wrote: > > On Friday 12 May 2006 21:18, Nagatoro wrote: > >> Note that the prompt for konsole is blinking ie invisible every other > >> second. > > > > What is the output of: > > > > # echo $PS1 > > > > \[\033[38;5;[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 15 May 2006 02:05:28 + (UTC) James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo system. > The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video card in the machine > is: > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 520

[gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-14 Thread James
Hello, I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo system. The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video card in the machine is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Any wikis or docs or example xorg.conf file laying around I can

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you read the info after you use "genkernel > all"? You need a lot > more options when using this kind of kernel, take a > look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml > Yikes! I'm too far behind for this. A search for "vani

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can a patch fix an ailing kernel or is only to make an older one up-to-date? Normally it is for updating an older kernel source tree to the current one. You probably don't have to mess with that though. If you have merged any 2.6.16 sources,

Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll play with strace some more, looks like the program used some call that's not traced by default because it's not even trying to read $DISPLAY; the error seems to be something generic. Just an FYI, you won't see the environment access wi

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 May 2006 13:32, "wu chuanwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!': > java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: A 1.4 vm refuses to load the output from a 1.5 javac because of the classfile format bump. A 1.5 vm will load both 1.4 and

Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?

2006-05-14 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Richard, on Saturday, 2006-05-13 at 10:29:53, you wrote: > Well the building of static libraries is on a per package basis, so I > guess your fastest option here is to copy the qt ebuild to your > overlay directory and modify it to make a static library. You could > also file a bug report on bu

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel panic

2006-05-14 Thread maxim wexler
> > Have you read the info after you use "genkernel > all"? You need a lot > more options when using this kind of kernel, take a > look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml > Yikes! I'm too far behind for this. A search for "vanilla-sources", another supposedly "easier" alternati

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]

2006-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
060514 Michael Sullivan wrote: > My wife tried GLSlideshow and she says it's exactly what she wanted. > Now she's going to want me to find a way to get her mother > a similar screensaver, but her mother uses Windows ME There's no M$ Windows version of Xscreensaver & the latter's creator says there

[gentoo-user] evolution gnome notification applet / systray integration

2006-05-14 Thread Bennet Gedan
Hello there, though this is not a gnome mailing list, i'd like to ask if anyone knows if there is a way to integrate evolution into the gnome system tray and get notifications about new mails, apointments, tasks and so on even if the evolution window is closed. (Like it's done with gaim for exa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images [SOLVED]

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:45 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > >My wife would like to know if there is a slideshow-type screensaver for > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fruityloops on gnu/linux!

2006-05-14 Thread b.n.
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just noticed that the 0.9.3 version of hydrogen available in portage contains a hidden piano roll editor, that turns hydrogen into a very fruityloops-like software :) Cool. I'll try it ASAP. But, by the way:

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 14 May 2006 20:31, maxim wexler wrote: > Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a > franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get > me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling > they think I'm making stuff up. > no, very obviously they try to help and YOU

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread John J. Foster
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:31:14PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > John J. Foster wrote: > > //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p > > ... > > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la > > (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) > > broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-x

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. No, maxim. Most likely, YOU have made a mistake

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
maxim wexler wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. No, that's not how it sounds like. It sounds like they don't understand how that

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Ptitjack
Tito Valentin a gentiment tapote: > Thierry, > > Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I can add the card manually when I do: > > # modprobe snd > > Try #modprobe snd-in

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: I have unmerge the sun-jdk1.5 and emerge sun-jdk1.4 and it success. But now there is new problem when i emerge the one which tomcat dependen on: Yep. That's because you used JDK 5.0. In bugzilla you can find a lot of reports - BTW: You searched bugs.gentoo.org first? http://

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-14 Thread Mick
Hi All, Until recently ( a couple of stable versions ago) I used to have ooo-kde in my USE flags, which emerged OOo with the nicer (me thinks) Ximian style icons. Well, ooo-kde is now deprecated. I removed it and ever since OOo is launched with the uglier menu icons. That's despite me having k

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Mick
On 14/05/06, Tito Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thierry, Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Which I think needs this module: === snd-intel8x0

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday 14 May 2006 19.31, Tito Valentin wrote: > > Thierry, > > > > Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: > > > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, maxim wexler wrote: > Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a > franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get > me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling > they think I'm making stuff up. > > --- Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Tito Valentin wrote: > Thierry, > > Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) > AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I can add the card manually when I do: > > # modprobe snd > > But after th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 14 May 2006 19.31, Tito Valentin wrote: > Thierry, > > Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I can add the card manually when I do: > > # modprobe snd > > But a

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-14 Thread wu chuanwen
I have unmerge the sun-jdk1.5 and emerge sun-jdk1.4 and it success. But now there is new problem when i emerge the one which tomcat dependen on: --- #emerge tomcat Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread maxim wexler
Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. --- Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The folks who work the gentoo bugzilla do us an > en

Re: [gentoo-user] php-5 being forced to install?

2006-05-14 Thread Justin Patrin
On 5/13/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, I'm having weird symptoms on my gentoo 2005.x system. The system is trying to install php-5. It says... [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.2 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 I don't understand why it's trying to do this, as I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, dirk dil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo. My system is fairly recent and I'm running the amd64 version of gentoo. I'm trying to update my system and I get the following error: emerge --update --deep world --- Invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 14 May 2006 17:15, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Thanks. That worked for me. I knew there should be something simple > that I didn't know yet. Sorry if my ranting annoyed anybody. > maybe you should start reading the documentation? Everything about the different forms of masking and how to

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-w3c-dom.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/lib-org-xml-sax.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la) done. There is probably a better way, b

[gentoo-user] syntax error near unexpected token `error' on GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(error)

2006-05-14 Thread Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez
I have 2 PCs, on one I have gnome-2.14.0 installed and when configuring a gdl(GNOME Development Library) CVS snapshot, for anjuta-2.0, I have no errors, but in the other one I have installed gnome-light-2.14.0 and this error: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checki

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Tito Valentin
Thierry, Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) I can add the card manually when I do: # modprobe snd But after that, if I play something I get the following error: [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
John J. Foster wrote: > Good morning all, > > I usually run > //garbanzo/root # emerge -pv depclean > > followed by > //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p > after all world updates, and rarely have any issues at all. This is a > stable x86 system, except for kde, mutt, amarok and their dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-14 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to Mike Williams for their suggestions. Both are helpful in different contexts. --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks.  That worked for me.  I knew there should be something simple that I didn't know yet.  Sorry if my ranting annoyed anybody. ++ kevinOn 5/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  I really need this thing.  I want it to be stable.

[gentoo-user] ALSA and Gnome problem.

2006-05-14 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi everyone, I am experiencing a real odd thing, I configured my kernel to alsa for NVIDIA AC'97 sound card, the sound options had beeing done well since cat /proc/asound/cards returns: 0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK804 NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at 0xda003000, irq 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16.21, Tito Valentin wrote: > Hello All, > > I can't seem to get sound working. I compiled the kernel so sound > support and also installed the alsa drivers and still no luck. When I > boot the machine I get a lot of snd errors saying that it failed to load > the drivers. W

[gentoo-user] Fruityloops on gnu/linux!

2006-05-14 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just noticed that the 0.9.3 version of hydrogen available in portage contains a hidden piano roll editor, that turns hydrogen into a very fruityloops-like software :) Enjoy! instructions at: http://linux-consulting.buanzo.com.ar in Spanish: h

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem and gcc-3.4.5-r1

2006-05-14 Thread John J. Foster
Good morning all, I usually run //garbanzo/root # emerge -pv depclean followed by //garbanzo/root # revdep-rebuild -p after all world updates, and rarely have any issues at all. This is a stable x86 system, except for kde, mutt, amarok and their dependencies. For about a week now, revdep-rebuil

[gentoo-user] Can't get sound

2006-05-14 Thread Tito Valentin
Hello All, I can't seem to get sound working. I compiled the kernel so sound support and also installed the alsa drivers and still no luck. When I boot the machine I get a lot of snd errors saying that it failed to load the drivers. When I look in /var/log/messages I get this: http://paste

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Alexander Skwar escribió: Fabrice Delliaux wrote: dirk dil a écrit : emerge --update --deep world --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/php-5.1.2 Check your package.use file : no need to specify the atom's version : Well, how do you know, that there's no

[gentoo-user] using xscreensaver hacks in gnome-screensaver (gnome 2.14)

2006-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi All, For a while I was looking for how to get gnome-screensaver (gnome-2.14) to use xscreensaver hacks. Well, I never found out anything, so I wrote this script to convert the xscreensaver xml files to gnome-screensaver .desktop files. Just run it like this: $ xs2gs.pl /path/to/xscreensaver-fil

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Fabrice Delliaux wrote: dirk dil a écrit : emerge --update --deep world --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/php-5.1.2 Check your package.use file : no need to specify the atom's version : Well, how do you know, that there's no "need to" do specify the ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: Color name "black" is not defined

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:50 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: > I just made a symlink to /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt : > Great idea. I'll give that a try on Monday when I'm back at the office. If that really fixes the problem, then it should be incorporated

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-14 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 14 May 2006 02:43, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Is there a way of getting a list of Portage categories? I know that I > can `ls -s /usr/portage', but that seems like such a hack. Is there some > way of getting that information with a Portage tool? With a portage tool? Don't know. >From

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
dirk dil a écrit : > Hi, > Hi, > > emerge --update --deep world > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/php-5.1.2 Check your package.use file : no need to specify the atom's version : Not : > dev-lang/php-5.1.2 the use flags But : > dev-lang/

Re: [gentoo-user] *SOLVED* App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-14 Thread Mick
On 14/05/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Installing the XMMS plugin is the first step. There are two ways to get XMMS to work... [snip...] 2) From "CTRL-C" or "Play AudioCD" In XMMS "CTRL-C" or (or select "Play AudioCD" from the menu) Click on right-pointing triangle (2nd fr

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo servers down?

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Do other people also experience problems with http://bugs.gentoo.org/ [...] right now? The servers react extremely slow [...] and is basically just timing out. Anyone else? I've got this issue from two systems in two completely different networks which use different

[gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-14 Thread dirk dil
Hi, I'm new to gentoo. My system is fairly recent and I'm running the amd64 version of gentoo. I'm trying to update my system and I get the following error: emerge --update --deep world --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use:

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:56PM +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote > > Hi Walter, > > on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > > > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or > > > GNOME... > > > > Good point! :) What about m

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing portage categories?

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Is there a way of getting a list of Portage categories? I know that I > can `ls -s /usr/portage', but that seems like such a hack. Is there some > way of getting that information with a Portage tool? > > --- Vladimir > > P.S. I haven't found a w

[gentoo-user] *SOLVED* App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
Installing the XMMS plugin is the first step. There are two ways to get XMMS to work... 1) From "L" or "Play File" In XMMS "L" (or select "Play file" from the menu) Navigate to /dev/cdrom (or whatever device name your CD has) Click on "Play". Nothing happens, but don't worry...