Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I have a system using this card: > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > and I want to use this card: > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > >> After he installs the new card, he may have to reemerge the drivers >> though and reload th

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 January 2007 20:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. When you mix environments or us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Dale wrote: > >>> I have a system using this card: > >>> "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > >>> > >>> and I want to use this card: > >>> "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > > After he installs the new card, he may have to reemerge the drivers > though and reload the modules too. Nope. I've swaped my MX200 fo

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Kellystewart00
Thanks for the help there got everything running perfectly the libdvdcss sorted out my issues with encrypted dvds. Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Thomas Lingefelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:11:41 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: > In , > Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) >> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> hello, >>> >>> I have a system using this card: >>> "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" >>> >>> and I want to use this c

Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to > work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 > kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread »Q«
In , Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello, > > > > I have a system using this card: > > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > > > and I want to use this card: > > "NV34 [GeForce FX 52

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread James
Rumen Yotov qrypto.org> writes: > > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > Currently don't have a NVidia card, but IIRC the former > uses: x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers, the latter: > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. > But please check again, can't confirm.No other changed

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:49:33 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I have a system using this card: > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > > and I want to use this card: > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" > > to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. > > Can I just swap the

Re: [gentoo-user]

2007-01-20 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 15:21 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: [...] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nvidia card swap

2007-01-20 Thread James
hello, I have a system using this card: "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" and I want to use this card: "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications. Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit (xorg.conf) and recompile some software, such as xorg-server ? id

[gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system dama

[gentoo-user] x11 display as v4l device

2007-01-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Does anybody know if there is some driver+tools that could present an x11 display as a v4l device? SOmething like what x11vnc does, but instead of being able to see the display x11vnc attached to via vnc, been able to see it as a local v4l devi

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:23, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that > > all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into > > memory just once. When you mix environme

Re: [gentoo-user] php-5.1.6-r6 troubles

2007-01-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, James wrote: Hello, Trying to run a routine upgrade I get this error: hecking for Informix support... no checking for InterBase support... yes checking for isc_detach_database in -lfbclient... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lgds... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lib_util..

[gentoo-user] Re: info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread »Q«
In , Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also just a side note to the OP. Just because ipw2200 has been masked > doesn't mean you have to rebuild a working kernel that allready has > the external modules working. You could just unmerge ipw2200 and > ieee80211. /

Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 23:06, David Corbin wrote: > > You ran the script and you were warned. The ieee80211 ebuild is depended > > upon by four external, wireless net drivers: ipw{2100,2200,3945} and > > rt2x00. > > Having just gotten my ipw2100 to be working (kind of), I want to comment on >

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this co

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer errorFIXED?

2007-01-20 Thread Niki Guldbrand
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > BUT, I'll only start using info on the day someone can explain to me how > to use it causing my intestines to leap out of my throat and strangling > me in protest (apologies to Douglas Adams...) > > alan > Have you ever tried pinfo ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:39 +0530, arnuld wrote: > BTW, what does "synaptics" do? Well I can't answer your other questions, but synaptics is the driver for a touchpad. Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Stamp out organized crime!! Abolish the IRS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:23, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > This issue is specific to neither suspend2-sources nor ipw2200. You hit the > same issue with any other kernel if you emerge ieee80211. From the > ieee80211 ebuild: > > eerror "Your kernel source contains an incompatible version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a specified time to catch the complete progress of the script, like the top command to monitor all fi

Re: [gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:58, »Q« wrote: > This affects suspend2-sources users (and maybe others) who have been > using the ipw2200 ebuild in portage rather than the in-kernel ipw2200 > support. It confused me pretty badly yesterday, so I thought I'd post > in case it can help someone. > > Th

[gentoo-user] info for ipw2200 users

2007-01-20 Thread »Q«
This affects suspend2-sources users (and maybe others) who have been using the ipw2200 ebuild in portage rather than the in-kernel ipw2200 support. It confused me pretty badly yesterday, so I thought I'd post in case it can help someone. The ipw2200 ebuild is now masked, pending removal from port

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all dra

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Avaricen
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help with it being a memory hog. You mean Konqueror. Err.. obviously not. Konqueror isn't based on Firefox... http://conkeror.mozdev.org/

[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread arnuld
did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx" Iain, it seems likee you have not read my 1st post, here is the relevent part of it: INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa via vga v4l"

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Avaricen
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: You mean Konqueror. No. See http://conkeror.mozdev.org :O I thought you were referring to the KDE app. ;) My apologies. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 January 2007 17:23, Lewis Handy wrote: > On 20/01/07, arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i ave installed X using "emerge X" and after hours of > > download-compile-install cycle "startx" tells me that drivers named > > "mouse" & "kbd" are not found. here is what i have done > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:46, James wrote: > Daniel Iliev ilievnet.com> writes: > > eix -C -c -n media-video | grep -i dvd > > That's a pretty cool search string. > If I wanted to search the entire tree, why does this not work? > > eix -C -c -n * | grep -i dvd > > eix does not expand wildcard

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: > You mean Konqueror. No. See http://conkeror.mozdev.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:32, Avaricen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system': > Luke Ravitch wrote: > > On 2007-01-19 09:45, Vlad Dogaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox. > >> I've t

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:32, Avaricen wrote: > > Of course, Conkeror is still Firefox underneath, so that won't help > > with it being a memory hog. > > You mean Konqueror. Err.. obviously not. Konqueror isn't based on Firefox... http://conkeror.mozdev.org/ -- Bo Andresen pgpU3M3RpE3zj.

[gentoo-user] php-5.1.6-r6 troubles

2007-01-20 Thread James
Hello, Trying to run a routine upgrade I get this error: hecking for Informix support... no checking for InterBase support... yes checking for isc_detach_database in -lfbclient... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lgds... no checking for isc_detach_database in -lib_util... no configure: err

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Avaricen
Luke Ravitch wrote: On 2007-01-19 09:45, Vlad Dogaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am especially looking for a browser to substitute Firefox (it's great, but quite a memory hog). I like links, what with its graphical capabilities, but it lacks tabs and that's a major downside in my vision. I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Lewis Handy
On 20/01/07, arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i ave installed X using "emerge X" and after hours of download-compile-install cycle "startx" tells me that drivers named "mouse" & "kbd" are not found. here is what i have done 1.) used "genkernel all" to compile my kernel. 2.) added these 2 to "

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-20 Thread Mick
On 20/01/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will > > not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The > > /etc/logrotate.conf is

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Daniel Iliev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good morning! > I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a > lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to > get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but > considering i own

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

2007-01-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will > > not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The > > /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: > [...] > Anyone? Anything I could l

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good morning! > I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a > lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to > get around this. (i know all this could be slig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:10, Norberto Bensa wrote: > arnuld wrote: > > >> (EE) driver "kbd" was not found" > > > > > > should be keyboard > > > > what doe sthat mean in context of "xorg.conf". > > The driver is called "keyboard" not "kbd" My understanding is (man keyboard) that "kbd" is the

[gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Kellystewart00
Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
arnuld wrote: > >> (EE) driver "kbd" was not found" > > > > should be keyboard > > what doe sthat mean in context of "xorg.conf". The driver is called "keyboard" not "kbd" pgpvVQ0kf7GFs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get rid of errors related to glib

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: > Your system is in an illegal state as you have two versions of glib in the > same slot. Hmm, I don't know how this could happen. Can't remember doing anything specific related to glib. >> Any hints on this? > > Make sure that you have the latest portage (either la

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-20 Thread Jan Stępień
Richard Fish napisał(a): > On 1/19/07, Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please verify my plan. I should recompile my kernel with device drivers >> -> character devices -> radeon built in (or as a module) and in >> xorg.conf set driver to "radeon". Am I right? > > Yeah, I think that will w

[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread arnuld
This is how mine is set up. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option"Protocol" "auto" Option"Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option"ZAxisMappi

[gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread arnuld
(EE) AGLRX: Screen0 is not DRI capable Try to # the DRI under modules and # at the end there might be a section for DRI "# the DRI" in "xorg.conf".. OK? (EE) driver "mouse" was not found it should be /dev/input/mice it *is* "/dev/input/mice", i am talking of "drivers" not of "/dev".

Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 09:33 +0530, arnuld wrote: > i ave installed X using "emerge X" and after hours of > download-compile-install cycle "startx" tells me that drivers named > "mouse" & "kbd" are not found. here is what i have done [snip] did you forget to add these to /etc/make.conf? INPUT_DEVI

[gentoo-user] AIGLX and Compiz: "No GLXFBConfig for default depth"

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, on the recent topic of aiglx, etc., I decided to try it out. I followed these howto's: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX http://gentoo-wiki.com/Compiz but when I get to starting compiz, I get this error: $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib compiz --replace gconf compiz: No

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a > > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd artifacts on screen

2007-01-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 January 2007 14:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I've noticed that I tend to get strange smudging effects on > text displayed in X. I've attached a small (5k) .png that shows the > effect (it's the smudge on the word "have"). > > I've been trying to narrow down some common f

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: > > This is odd.My main workstation also has 384MB of ram. I run a full KDE > session and do not experience any slow down. Right now, I have open: 9 > konqueror windows (not tabs), kmail, kmahjongg, konsole with 3 sessions, > noatun, kcalc. My background is a 1024x768 photo whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/19/07, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a > > minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, > > but RAM is quite cheap and is the magic elisir that