[gentoo-user] Anybody Know x86 Assembler?

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, Does anybody know x86 assember? The following code is in a kernel source file, and GCC fails to build it, saying "invalid operands to 'mov'". What's wrong with it? - Neil Code: asm volatile ("movl %%fs,%0":"=m" (*(int *) &m.fs)); asm volatile ("movl %%gs,%0":"=m" (*(int *) &m.gs)); -

[gentoo-user] RTC drivers

2007-01-26 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
I've recently reinstalled my laptop and been taking another hard look at various kernel options. I am a little bit confused about the rtc drivers, and the use of the rtc in general. I can see that I have an rtc device, it exists in both /dev and /proc and it seems to be giving sane values any wa

[gentoo-user] x11-drm Fails to Build (No Configure Script)

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I am unable to install x11-drm from the ebuild due to the following error. This happens to be against a 2.4 kernel: 2.4.32-gentoo-r7. Why does this error occur? What can I do about it? - Neil make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread reader
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" >> > >> > Pfft, missed a '

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread reader
Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the >> > other way round with gentoo as host. > > Yeah, that would explain the description being: "Guest-os tools for VMware > Workstation". Or not... Hehe... well I've never made an

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Grant
I really appreciate all the advice. I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I guess I'll let that complete. Once it's done, how can I move the data back over the network to the reformatted laptop? - Grant On 1/26/07, Matthias Bethke

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware suggestion: video camera

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/27/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for an cost effective video camera with (almost) TV quality for recording directly to an gentoo box. May also be an digicam w/ video recording capability. Which device would you suggest ? thx I got a cheap Logitec

[gentoo-user] hardware suggestion: video camera

2007-01-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm looking for an cost effective video camera with (almost) TV quality for recording directly to an gentoo box. May also be an digicam w/ video recording capability. Which device would you suggest ? thx -- - En

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 1076 (58978-59027)

2007-01-26 Thread Dale
tw wrote: > please remove my email address from digest of gentoo user list > Thanks TW > Try this: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 1076 (58978-59027)

2007-01-26 Thread tw
please remove my email address from digest of gentoo user list Thanks TW -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Grant, on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote: > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system > via tar and ssh. That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have a filesystem error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:47:51 -0800, Grant wrote: My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running as the desktop som

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: > How should I copy the data from the desktop system back to the laptop? > After the data is copied to the desktop, I'll make new filesystems on > the laptop's partitions, so how can I get the data back to the laptop? You could use netcat

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:47:51 -0800, Grant wrote: > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system > via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system > periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running > as the desktop sometimes loses the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 25 January 2007 20:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': > On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature. > > Might as well include a co

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

2007-01-26 Thread Shawn Singh
Daniel, Would it be ok for me to email you off list to get some help with a new setup of Shorewall that I did? Thanks, Shawn On 1/23/07, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, i solved my problem by the help of the shorewall mailing list. The shorewall maintainer Tom Eastep he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 26 January 2007 20:05, Mick wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" > > > > > > P

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 26 January 2007 19:41, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > > Whether you should move or not I'll leave up to you. Following ciaranm.org > > or even planetpaludis.org should allow you to decide for yourself... Just > > make sure to read the docs at paludis.org if you want to try it. Effort is > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" > > > > Pfft, missed a '/'should be: > > =app-emulation/vmwar

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:12:41 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whether you should move or not I'll leave up to you. Following ciaranm.org or even planetpaludis.org should allow you to decide for yourself... Just make sure to read the docs at paludis.org if you want to try

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-26 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! The maintainer of laptop-mode has contacted me directly. After a few mails we (or he) came to the conclusion that my drive is not supported yet properly. He will try to fix this issues and support newer harddisks as soon as possible (probably within the next month). Thanks to all of you

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Grant
I used Ctrl+Alt+Fn to determine that the sizes of the copied directories on the desktop system do seem to correspond with their original sizes on the laptop so that's good. How should I copy the data from the desktop system back to the laptop? After the data is copied to the desktop, I'll make ne

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 26 January 2007 15:16, Mick wrote: > > > An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature. > > > > Might as well include a couple of links.. :) > > > > http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=75 > > http://paludis.org/ > > I have been looking at paludis for some time now, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Grant
My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running as the desktop sometimes loses the wireless connection temporarily. When I ran rc this morn

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread reader
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" > > Pfft, missed a '/'should be: > =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION I wasn't sure what that was... thought i

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'

2007-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:57, Martins wrote: > Hi, > > After updating to latest unstable xorg-server and ati-drivers I'm hit > again with incompatible driver versions. Shouldnt be there BIG > warning for those who have fglrx in make.conf? > > Looking into Xorg.log i see that xorg-server-1.2 belo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:19, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'd start by emerging cairo with the X flag set > > # USE="X" emerge cairo Of all the ways to do it, this has to be the worst. Portage has no idea in the future that cairo was emerged with X functionality enabled, and it causes vast amo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread Fabrício L. Ribeiro
Thanks, and I apologize for my attention fault and my poor english! On 1/26/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd start by emerging cairo with the X flag set # USE="X" emerge cairo -- FABRÍCIO L. RIBEIRO === [icq: 66770900] [e-mail, gtalk e msn: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote about '[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': > > > My problem is I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread kristian
1) You should add X to your useflags in /etc/make.conf Or 2) Add X to useflags for cairo in /etc/portage/package.use Kristian Poul Herkild -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:19:32 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [g

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:08 -0200, Fabrício L. Ribeiro wrote: > People, > > When I try to emerge Gnome and KDE, I receive this error: > > * > > >>> Emerging (1 of 38) x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6 to / > * gtk+-2.10.6.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... > [ ok ] > * gtk+-2.10.6.tar.

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Fabrício L. Ribeiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 January 2007 16:09 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE - snip - > > * Please re-emerge x11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set > - snip - > > What it me

[gentoo-user] Emerging Gnome and KDE

2007-01-26 Thread Fabrício L. Ribeiro
People, When I try to emerge Gnome and KDE, I receive this error: * Emerging (1 of 38) x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6 to / * gtk+-2.10.6.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gtk+-2.10.6.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gtk+-2.10.6.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:55:22 -0800, Douglas Linford wrote: > cd /root > rm -rf .revdep* > revdep-rebuild "revdep-rebuild -i" is easier :) -- Neil Bothwick Fasten your seatbelt ... I wanna try something. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'

2007-01-26 Thread Martins
Hi, After updating to latest unstable xorg-server and ati-drivers I'm hit again with incompatible driver versions. Shouldnt be there BIG warning for those who have fglrx in make.conf? Looking into Xorg.log i see that xorg-server-1.2 belongs to Xorg-7.2 however I have masked it, is it dependenc

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to > update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine. To do this I needed to add some packages to > the packages.keywords file, again fine. > My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a package >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I stumbled around in the script trying to make it work for gentoo but only succeded in reaping piles of perl errors due to my clumsyness in perl. Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" and use the version tha

[gentoo-user] cups doesn't work (pstoraster crash)

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. uname -a is: Linux sappho.realss.com 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 #21 Thu Dec 21 10:12:23 HKT 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) GNU/Linux cups version: 1.2.6, ghostscript-esp version: 8.15.3 (all are latest stable on Gentoo Sparc). Printing anything to my inkjet printer gets this error messa

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

2007-01-26 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Statux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 January 2007 03:48 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus > > update-eix fixed the one issue. I don't usually run > update-eix (though I > did recently) because I swea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

2007-01-26 Thread Douglas Linford
I had the same issue with my Gnome install after a world/dbus update. I found the following fix on Gentoo Forums...his complete message and fix is listed below...thanks to tSp. This fixed my system without having to rebuild my Gnome. I ran into a problem after an emerge upgrade to system and worl

RE: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch

2007-01-26 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Gabriel Rossetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 January 2007 22:24 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch > > yes, I have that, but I had that before in my previous > installation. FF > seems slower

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION" Pfft, missed a '/'should be: =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 26 January 2007 02:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the > > > masked depe