Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-01 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: > On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major > performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. I'd just thought I'd let everyone know there has been good progress here. Using the latest beta drivers (177.70) and with the settings from: ht

[gentoo-user] Re: Query: any good venue for sample lex&yacc or flex&bison programs

2008-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Erratum: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > This applies to examples in the texinfo pages, the 2003 O'Reilly book, > and online manuals. This book was actually published 11 years earlier, in 1992. Even a current download of the associated sample fi

[gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lex&yacc or flex&bison programs

2008-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've been teaching myself scanners over the summer, thinking to teach my students this fall. It was hard because just about all of the examples are inadequate for one of these reasons: 1 They are pure lex, or pure yacc, not a combination. Ditto flex and bison. Most of such sample programs work

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:57:03 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > But it is a *negativ* condition: portage is not depending on pycrypto > if and only if the build useflag is specified, which noone should > specify. portage depends on >=python-2.5 or pycrypto. > So --depclean should not consider it t

[gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
David Relson wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: David Relson wrote: G'day, Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, found that I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I can use the comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > G'day, > > > > Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, > > found that I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow > > keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I can use the compar

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 23:14]: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend > > on it: > > > > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto > > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-pytho

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:49:36 +0100, Mick wrote: > No! --depclean is evil! :)) (and/or my system is borked). Neither. > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to depend > on it: > > # equery depends dev-python/pycrypto > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-py

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 20:22]: > > Where should I look? > An emerge --info is a start.. > > > > with emerge -n hdparm you can add it. > > Sure, but I had emerged (many years ago) so it should be in there, right? > Not necessarily, maybe you unmerged the package which required i

[gentoo-user] xfce4 svg support broken?

2008-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
I can't seem to get svg support in xfce 4.4.2 to work. None of the xfce ebuilds seem to have an svg USE flag, but I've read there are secret dependancies on both libsvg and librsvg. I've checked, and both libsvg and librsvg are installed. I re-built xfce panel and desktop just to make sure they

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 September 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 19:35]: > > > > No! --depclean is evil! :)) (and/or my system is borked). > > Your system is borked! ;-) That's what I fear. :( > > It tells me to remove dev-python/pycrypto, when portage seems to de

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.09.08 19:35]: > On Sunday 31 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:04:03 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > $ eix -Iu --only-names > > > app-arch/lzma-utils > > > dev-libs/libsigc++ > > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-x > > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python

2008-09-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 31 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:04:03 +0100, Mick wrote: > > $ eix -Iu --only-names > > app-arch/lzma-utils > > dev-libs/libsigc++ > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-x > > media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo > > sys-apps/hdparm > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > virtu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread John covici
on Monday 09/01/2008 Matthew R. Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, > > > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, > > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to > > run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages

[gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it

[gentoo-user] sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-01 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it. All the emerges fini

Re: [gentoo-user] no network device

2008-09-01 Thread Eric Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi again :) > I'm havin troubles with my network card :) my gentoo doesn't recognize it. > during kernel configuration I haven't installed network drivers because there > were no atheros > chipset drivers. > should I download them from the web, load them on a memory dri

[gentoo-user] no network device

2008-09-01 Thread vetrocemento
Hi again :) I'm havin troubles with my network card :) my gentoo doesn't recognize it. during kernel configuration I haven't installed network drivers because there were no atheros chipset drivers. should I download them from the web, load them on a memory drive and install them? btw the network

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module

2008-09-01 Thread Xav'
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the following > problem: > > After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pic use flag

2008-09-01 Thread Michele Schiavo
Thanks that's that i was looking for. Il giorno dom, 31/08/2008 alle 17.02 +, James ha scritto: > Michele Schiavo micheleschiavo.it> writes: > > > > There are some befit to set pic use flag on amd64 ? > > > Hello Michele, > > Here is a link for your perusal. > > http://www.gentoo.org/

[gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module

2008-09-01 Thread Roland Puntaier
Hi, I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the following problem: After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the kernel configuration, I followed the gentoo alsa guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml But got a lot of "unknown symb