[gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)

2006-07-08 Thread Grzegorz Sójka
Hi there! I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is supported by new versions). So my question is where can I find the Gentoo 2004.x

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. Good! On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and I

[gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I have used ProjectX to sync audio/video and to correct some bugs in a DVB-T recording. Now projectx leaves behind an audio file and a video file. I would like to mux them again...which application can do that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? Thanks a lot for any help in

[gentoo-user] vim backspace key problem

2006-07-08 Thread Shaochun Wang
Hi Everyone: Every time I use vim -u myvimrcfile foo.txt, I get weird problem as following: 1. When in insert mode, I can't use backspace key to delete the first character of the last line and any character of the other lines. Any suggestion? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I ensure all fontpaths are loaded?

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Walter Dnes wrote: The subject says it all. As part of the Xorg7 update I emerged some font groups. How do I find all the directories and include them xorg.conf? ls /usr/share/fonts/ -- all Gentoo font packages install there. Add each dir to xorg.conf as another FontPath directive.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers ebuild?

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alan E. Davis wrote: I haven't noticed this ebuild before. I am seeing a new ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Can someone explain this? I can only hope this is the end of a long and troubling issue with xorg and nvidia-kernel. I fear not, however: (I am running

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: Hi there! I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is supported by new versions). So my question is where can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 08 July 2006 04:23, Zac Medico wrote: Look inside $PORTDIR/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE and you'll see this: Please see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml for a recovery guide for a broken portage installation. yeah, but that does not

[gentoo-user] Wine won't build

2006-07-08 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I can't get wine to build. The configure script complains that it can't find freetype (despite it being installed) but I'm not sure if thats the problem. I assume an exit status of 1 from the configure script is bad? malory alex # tail /var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.16/work/wine-0.9.16/config.log

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers ebuild?

2006-07-08 Thread thomas blomme
the new drivers solve the nvidia problems with newer kernels tooOn 7/8/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Alan E. Davis wrote: I haven't noticed this ebuild before.I am seeing a new ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Can someone explain this?I can only hope this is the

[gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Jim Burwell
Hi, I'm having an issue with text console of one of my gentoo boxes not coming back after the X server exits. The console is there and works fine up to the point when the X server starts (for instance, when gdm comes up). After this, using the key sequences to call up the text vtys, shutting

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:00:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: 1) I would like to see an implementation of PAUSE. I mean, during most of the emerges there is not only one package to be emerged. Some of the packages have instructions for additional post installation steps that the user should take.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:47:53 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I would like to mux them again...which application can do that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? mplex should do this, it's part of mjpegtools. Do you know of a decent graphical program for editing DVB files. All

[gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in the world file. Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put packages in that I do not think belong. Looking for a means to clean up

Re: [gentoo-user] vim backspace key problem

2006-07-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Shaochun Wang wrote: Every time I use vim -u myvimrcfile foo.txt, I get weird problem as following: 1. When in insert mode, I can't use backspace key to delete the first character of the last line and any character of the other lines. What's in your myvimrcfile? You will want set bs=2 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging kdebase

2006-07-08 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 06 July 2006 19:43, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/6/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld : warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.6

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hullo Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least in my laptop the devices still work like they did before. I only got one problem right now: xorg does not start, if the mouse is inside the xorg.conf (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run vim /var/lib/portage/world, :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance something else.

Re: [gentoo-user] vim backspace key problem

2006-07-08 Thread Shaochun Wang
Yes, it works. Thank you! -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 You can get my publickey from the following url: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~scwang/docs/scwangpublickey.gpg -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, There are some things that I forgot to tell ya. I know that lots of you don't know dpkg-reconfigure, well, it will write the /etc/whatever.conf file for you asking you in an interactive way what do you want to do. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well you can do it by hand but you'll notice that if you run regenworld they'll be added to your world file again. Just delete it manually from /var/lib/portage/world file and later delete /var/log/emerge.log if you don't want they to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy, I've got a fun little project to install portage on RHEL 4. Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow me to put Gentoo, so I figured I'd do the best I can and put portage :) If there are powers that won't allow you to install Gentoo I think it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SORRY, IN that you don't want to be in portage should be that you don't want to be in your world file. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in the world file. Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put packages in that I do not think belong.

[gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is not recognized. However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works well. I have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct scanimage -L find the scanner as root but not as a user. My conclusion is that I

[gentoo-user] Re: Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:06, Daniel Waeber wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run vim /var/lib/portage/world, :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance

[gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread John Blinka
Hi, I've successfully upgraded to modular X on 4 machines without any issues, but the 5th box is fighting me. The 5th box, a Dell Inspiron 8200, has an nvidia card, and I've used the proprietary nvidia video drivers for years without problems. I've followed the instructions in

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel Waeber wrote: If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run vim /var/lib/portage/world, :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me, but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or if you have to chance something else. I don't think anything

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Hi Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a user scanner and then logout and login. Gian Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear: Hi all, I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is not recognized. However, if I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
060708 Jim Burwell wrote: The text console of one of my gentoo boxes does not come back after the X server exits. The console is there and works fine up to the point when the X server starts (eg when gdm comes up). After this, using the key sequences to call up the text vtys, shutting down

[gentoo-user] Per-process CPU % usage limit

2006-07-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
As the subject says, is there any way to force a particular process to use at most a given CPU percentage? Ulimit does not help, since I don't want a CPU time limit and I don't want the process to be killed. The problem is that some very CPU-consuming apps, even if started with the lowest

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Justin R Findlay wrote: ctrl-s, ctrl-q seems to work for me. This means one still has to monitor the output. In my /etc/make.conf I have: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=info warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=mail syslog PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for pointing this out. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:45, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Hi Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a user scanner and then logout and login. Gian Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear: Hi all, I have just tried to use my scanner for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:00:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: emerge is, by definition, a non-interactive program (apart from --ask which works before emerge starts its business). Use the ELOG features of portage 2.1 to have this messages save to a file, mailed to you or read

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi guys, There are some things that I forgot to tell ya. I know that lots of you don't know dpkg-reconfigure, well, it will write the /etc/whatever.conf file for you asking you in an interactive way what do you want to do. I'd compare it to some

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:30:54 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this? I've done this manually in the past. Edit /var/lib/world and remove everything you think shouldn't be in

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:16:03 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: My conclusion is that I have a permmissions problem, but I can't find out where or how to change them. Can anybody help please? I have device epson:libusb:003:005 vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0808 This happened to me recently too. The

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

2006-07-08 Thread fire-eyes
On Friday 07 July 2006 21:51, Ryan Tandy wrote: Set VIDEO_CARDS=radeon or USE=video_cards_radeon, and emerge -N xorg-x11.  Worked for me (Radeon 9600 XT) as of the first X -configure run, with no additional messing about.  The driver name is radeon if you like to do xorg.conf by hand. Hm. I

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 08 July 2006 16:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: SYSFS{product}==CanoScan, SYSFS{manufacturer}==Canon, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 Neil, Thanks that's just what I'm looking for. SYSFS{product}==0x0808, SYSFS{manufacturer}==0x04b8, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 But where do I put this? -- This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: 4) I emerged wpa_supplicant based on info here that says wpa_supplicant can be used with ndiswrapper: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/WPA 5) When I emerged wpa_supplicant it said I needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. Good! On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding

Re: [gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:04:41 -0300 Claudinei Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use tun/tap to assign some ip to my server (since I'll need it to my LVS solution) and I think it's a trivial task to put tun to work, but I'm trying in 3 different machines (with 2 different

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:48:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:47:53 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I would like to mux them again...which application can do that job for me (formats: *.m2c/*.ac3 ) ??? mplex should do this, it's part

[gentoo-user] Thinkpad T43: wireless keeps dropping, firmware error

2006-07-08 Thread fire-eyes
I am using an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop. It has an Intel Pro Wireless 2915 abg wireless card in it. This uses the ipw2200 driver. Most of the time when I use wireless, it is solid. However every few days or weeks (there seems to be no pattern), I run into a day where 6 - 20 times in that given

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:01:40PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked: Next, the wiki said to put these lines into the /etc/conf.d/net file (which had nothing in it because it assumes dhcp): modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dndiswrapper wpa_timeout_wlan0=60

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:42:25PM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Yes, I already have about 400MB of logs there. I still wonder when will come the day I'll wipe them out. :) I have a simple cron job that bzip2's them and about a year's worth of logs amounts to about 30 Mib, but I should probably

Re: [gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-08 Thread Claudinei Matos
tks for the help.. I was really thinking about give dummy interface a try but instead I did solved my problem using an lo alias like this:ifconfig lo:0 192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 supposing that eth0 is on the same network ;)what is funny is that on all LVS guides

[gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Grant
My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router. This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a user account on my laptop and I use gdm so it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo

2006-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/8/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: 4) I emerged wpa_supplicant based on info here that says wpa_supplicant can be used with ndiswrapper: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/WPA 5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rafael Fernández López schrieb: The first thing that I'd change is etc-update or dispatch-conf. I'd suggest to create some kind of tool like dpkg-reconfigure in Debian. More intuitive than reading /etc files and writing them by hand that is more probably to be mistaken when writing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rafael Fernández López schrieb: Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that emerge is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Lord Sauron schrieb: On 7/7/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lord Sauron wrote: My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. This NEVER happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rafael Fernández López schrieb: I know that lots of you don't know dpkg-reconfigure, well, it will write the /etc/whatever.conf file for you asking you in an interactive way what do you want to do. But etc-update is interactive as well, isn't it? process, so I'd suggest to print

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

2006-07-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:43:55AM +, Chuanwen Wu wrote I found that the problem is the gmplayer,but no mplayer. I start mplayer from terminal,everything is fluent. Is there any other way to use mplayer in xfce(just no use gmplayer)?? There are 2 possible solutions for your problem...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Do you know of a decent graphical program for editing DVB files. All I really need is to be able to cut out commercials etc. A command line program would do, but graphical would be easier. @ Neil If you just want to cut out commercials i recommend you ttcut, it is only designed for this

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:01:40 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: However, if I boot the laptop without the ethernet cable connected, it hangs when running the dhcpcd daemon. I'm sure I'm missing something, but I don't know what. emerge ifplugd and read the comments in /etc/conf.d/net.example --

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:30:06 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: I know that lots of you don't know dpkg-reconfigure, well, it will write the /etc/whatever.conf file for you asking you in an interactive way what do you want to do. But etc-update is interactive as well, isn't it? And you

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:29:15 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Thanks that's just what I'm looking for. SYSFS{product}==0x0808, SYSFS{manufacturer}==0x04b8, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 But where do I put this? /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules -- Neil Bothwick Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:09 -0700, Grant wrote: My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router. This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-08 Thread Mick
On 08/07/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Odd. Oh well, as long as it's working... I hope you don't mind me running with this thread, as I have a similar problem (I think) to the OP. On my laptop I have also installed SUSE 10.0 which seems to behave in a different way: when

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:12:56PM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: er... click New Login as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt? I believe the newlogin feature was just introduced in xscreensaver-5.00 which came out just recently. Be sure to enable the new-login USE flag in

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine won't build

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't get wine to build. The configure script complains that it can't find freetype (despite it being installed) but I'm not sure if thats the problem. I assume an exit status of 1 from the configure script is bad? Is this on amd64? If

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful distro. The first thing that I'd change

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver synaptics Option Protocol event Option InputFashion Mouse Option Device /dev/input/mice Did you read the whole thread? You need to use an event

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:32:58 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: FEATURES=buildpkg emerge --oneshot portage python I know that. I prefer quickpkg. ;) The difference is that the buildpkg approach verifies the package by building it and then installing from it. Before a big, scary

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
When I say yes I mean yes. When I say no I mean no. And I don't mean just until the next update either. I have reasons for my settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom settings in

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What to do when your smtp server needs authentification ? Cheers, Rafael Fernández López. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-08 Thread Mick
On 08/07/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the whole thread? You need to use an event node to use the synaptics driver: My original response to Grant: Thanks I did read it. I'm afraid I do not understand the term event (as in event-node, event device, event protocol,

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 08 July 2006 23:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:32:58 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: FEATURES=buildpkg emerge --oneshot portage python I know that. I prefer quickpkg. ;) The difference is that the buildpkg approach verifies the package by building it and

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process CPU % usage limit

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that some very CPU-consuming apps, even if started with the lowest priority (eg, nice -n 19), still eat up 100% CPU (with subsequent overheating, fan start, throttling, etc.) if the system is not busy and has nothing else to do.

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've successfully upgraded to modular X on 4 machines without any issues, but the 5th box is fighting me. The 5th box, a Dell Inspiron 8200, has an nvidia card, and I've used the proprietary nvidia video drivers for years without problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The left and right movement of the mouse wheel is only supported by the evdev driver. As this feature is really handy I'll have to use evdev. Ok, well you'll probably be very happy when xorg 7.2 comes out with input hotplug support. :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: EXTRA_ECONF=--disable-runtime-cpudetection emerge --options mplayer This doesn't work with every ebuild, but it does with most of them. Correct. This doesn't work for mplayer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery u mplayer [ Searching for packages

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
fire-eyes wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 21:51, Ryan Tandy wrote: Set VIDEO_CARDS=radeon or USE=video_cards_radeon, and emerge -N xorg-x11. Worked for me (Radeon 9600 XT) as of the first X -configure run, with no additional messing about. The driver name is radeon if you like to do xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:10:17 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Using buildpkg means I never have to worry about forgetting to run quickpkg, i can concentrate on all the other things I forget to do :) yeah, but some people are a little bit harddisc-space constraint ;) Yeah, I know. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:59:24 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Something alike for the messages during an emerge. Often I see instructions on what to do after the emerge flashing by while doing an emerge world, I don't even want to know how many I miss.. Why not log those to a seperate file so

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
Grant wrote: My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router. This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new wireless card or sharing my laptop. She has a user account on my laptop and I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless worked, rebuilt kernel, wireless no longer works

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: Hi, Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to add USB OHCI support only? Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile ndiswrapper against the new kernel. I saw that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks I did read it. I'm afraid I do not understand the term event (as in event-node, event device, event protocol, etc.) and was not sure if it is a necessary precondition. Is a udev rule necessary? The minimum you need is CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV in

[gentoo-user] snmpd.conf location confusion

2006-07-08 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
Hi, I noticed that after emerging net-snmp and starting /etc/init.d/snmpd I got the following results from snmpwalk: $ snmpwalk -v1 -cpublic localhost Timeout: No Response from localhost Then I thought maybe SNMP is not configured properly. I looked up the Gentoo SNMP howto

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless worked, rebuilt kernel, wireless no longer works

2006-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/8/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: Hi, Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to add USB OHCI support only? Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 13:40 -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:12:56PM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: er... click New Login as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt? I believe the newlogin feature was just introduced in xscreensaver-5.00 which came out just

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless worked, rebuilt kernel, wireless no longer works

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something like that - early in the boot process. Later the kernel posts a message telling

[gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

2006-07-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 revdep-rebuild tells me that I need to remerge ImageMagick, but then fails during the remerge. This is the error I get: libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pthread -MT coders/coders_png_la-png.lo -MD -MP -MF

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless worked, rebuilt kernel, wireless no longer works

2006-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/8/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something like that - early in the boot

[gentoo-user] EIX and sunrise overlay

2006-07-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I just found out about sunrise overlay and I've added a few overlays into my tree. Seems that eix doesn't know about it. How can I inform eix about it? when I do a update-eix --dump I do see that I didn't exclude any trees. Eix however, does know about my overlays in /usr/local/portage and yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 revdep-rebuild tells me that I need to remerge ImageMagick, but then fails during the remerge. This is the error I get: libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pthread -MT coders/coders_png_la-png.lo -MD -MP -MF

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is slow in xfce but Ok in other X

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I found that the problem is the gmplayer,but no mplayer. I start mplayer from terminal,everything is fluent. Is there any other way to use mplayer in xfce(just no use gmplayer)?? Have you tried to run gmplayer (not mplayer) from terminal and check for error messages in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

2006-07-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy, I've got a fun little project to install portage on RHEL 4. Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow me to put Gentoo, so I figured I'd do the best I can and put portage :) I would recommend attacking this at the Business level: 1/ Find out why they

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean up world file

2006-07-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:30:54AM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in the world file. Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A way out of the topic, but its a question that I want to ask. What is the performance hit of using encrypted file system? I hate laptops, but you never know ;-) Not so bad. I really don't notice any real performance

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
The workaround I applied is to put an initfs image into kernel. The init script there pre-mounts the root file system and afterwards switches root. Nothing else. I tested twice by booting the machine and intentionally turning its power off. When stared again xfs recovery starts, finishes, then the

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John Blinka wrote: Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! See how all your nvidia driver ends with .o instead of .so? That means you didn't build the drivers with USE=dlloader (which is now set by default). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user][OT]Things that can be improved

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ryan Tandy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery u mplayer [ Searching for packages matching mplayer... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

2006-07-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Tandy wrote: gentuxx wrote: revdep-rebuild tells me that I need to remerge ImageMagick, but then fails during the remerge. This is the error I get: libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pthread -MT

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

2006-07-08 Thread Grant
I believe the newlogin feature was just introduced in xscreensaver-5.00 which came out just recently. Be sure to enable the new-login USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use for x11-misc/xscreensaver. I've tried xscreensaver-4.24 and 5.00 both compiled with new-login and I don't see any kind of a

Re: [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection? (was: [OT]Things that can be improved)

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daniel Iliev wrote: Quote: == Config files successfully generated by ./configure ! Install prefix: /usr Data directory: /usr/share/mplayer Config direct.: /usr/share/mplayer Byte order: little-endian Optimizing for: Runtime CPU-Detection enabled == Byte order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

2006-07-08 Thread Ryan Tandy
if /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./magick -I./wand -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -pthread -MT coders/coders_png_la-png.lo -MD -MP -MF coders/.deps/coders_png_la-png.Tpo -c -o

Re: [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection?

2006-07-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Ryan Tandy wrote: And according to the ebuild, it works properly... if use cpudetection || use livecd || use bindist myconf = ${myconf} --enable-runtime-cpudetection fi I'm hoping they aren't, but are livecd or bindist in your USE? Is your MPlayer ebuild coming from an overlay?

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick fails

2006-07-08 Thread Mike
Bottom line: you need ~x86 libpng and imagemagick until libpng-1.2.12-r1 and imagemagick-6.2.8.0 are stabled. If you dont want to install the packages from testing you can compile imagemagick with the -png use flag set and it should work. That's what I did until imagemagick and/or libpng was

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