Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Dale
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > Hi Dale, > > currently I am runnning nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 for my FX-5600 and > kernel version x86_64-2.6.27-gentoo-r8. > > I don't know, if the driver 173.14.15 works for you, but if it does, > than kernel 2.6.27 might me a solution. > > kind regards, > der Max > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Same version in portage and overlay, how to mask?

2009-03-31 Thread Justin
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > If I have identically named packages with the *same* version number in the > portage tree and in an overlay, how do I mask the overlay version without > deleting the overlay? > > I have kde-testing enabled to get koffice:2, but some packages conflict with > portage, lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-03-31 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:00:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > > I then shut the computer down and I writing this from a liveCD. > > I do not even want to access the disk read only without knowing I have > > not messed up. > > > > So: does anybody know i

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-03-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 04:31:03 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > You know, I was thinking a bit, > > What with usergroups being the default behavior, do you think it's > quite reasonable to use 002 as a default umask? Most group-sharing > use-cases I've encountered have people that are sharing groups

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 > > SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux > > HOST_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module > > > > If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack > > if relevant. >

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-03-31 Thread Dale
c > CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes V=1 > SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux > HOST_CC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc clean module > > If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack > if relevant. > A complete buil

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-03-31 Thread Stroller
On 1 Apr 2009, at 04:25, Joseph wrote: On 03/31/09 19:40, Grant wrote: I have a Brother QL-570 label printer printing on 29x90mm labels. My goal is to have 6 characters printed across the center of the label. It prints like this: $ echo 123456 | lpr but the text is in the upper corner of the

Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo

2009-03-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/25/09 4:43 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:38:53 David wrote: I wrote an entry in my blog about gentoo, and created a little script to make gentoo handling a bit easier, and whant to share it will all gentoo users to see if it could help them to understand gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-03-31 Thread Steven Lembark
What with usergroups being the default behavior, do you think it's quite reasonable to use 002 as a default umask? Most group-sharing use-cases I've encountered have people that are sharing groups share files as read-write anyways, and by default, users have their own private group which nobody

[gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-03-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I then shut the computer down and I writing this from a liveCD. I do not even want to access the disk read only without knowing I have not messed up. So: does anybody know if hdparm -X /dev/hda is safe (on a running system...)? This setting, like most other

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-03-31 Thread Joseph
On 03/31/09 19:40, Grant wrote: I have a Brother QL-570 label printer printing on 29x90mm labels. My goal is to have 6 characters printed across the center of the label. It prints like this: $ echo 123456 | lpr but the text is in the upper corner of the label, it has the wrong orientation, and

[gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr

2009-03-31 Thread Grant
I have a Brother QL-570 label printer printing on 29x90mm labels. My goal is to have 6 characters printed across the center of the label. It prints like this: $ echo 123456 | lpr but the text is in the upper corner of the label, it has the wrong orientation, and the font is too small. It also p

[gentoo-user] umask 002 in /etc/profile

2009-03-31 Thread Mark David Dumlao
You know, I was thinking a bit, What with usergroups being the default behavior, do you think it's quite reasonable to use 002 as a default umask? Most group-sharing use-cases I've encountered have people that are sharing groups share files as read-write anyways, and by default, users have their o

[gentoo-user] Re: Broken binary and revdep-rebuild doesn't find it.

2009-03-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dan Wallis wrote: On 09/03/2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: rea...@gentoo ~ $ ldd /usr/lib64/NX/bin/* | grep "not found" libXcomp.so.3 => not found libXcompext.so.3 => not found libXcompshad.so.3 => not found libXcomp.so.3 => not found So today's update of gli

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tellico: custom fields

2009-03-31 Thread darren kirby
Hi all, I have been using Tellico here for the last several years to catalogue my books, DVDs and CDs/LPs. Now: by default Tellico includes a field called "Amazon.com Link" where it links the item to it's page on Amazon.com if it exists; the link text says "Buy from Amazon.com" Now: As these a

Re: [gentoo-user] Same version in portage and overlay, how to mask?

2009-03-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:57:02 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > So how can I mask just a specific ebuild from a specific overlay? > > This is not possible with current portage. I think with paludis you can > mask packages based on repositories, don't know about pkgcore though. That's what I thought

[gentoo-user] Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. I wanted to know how was my HD set, and I was issuing information-querying commands like hdparm /dev/hda, hdparm -i /dev/hda when I accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda (idiot me). The hdparm man page does not tell what happens when the -X option is used without an argument. I suspect it is e

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread Xav'
laurent a écrit : Xav' a écrit : On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 +0200, laurent wrote: Hi, I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml after configuring courier-imap they say: Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread laurent
Xav' a écrit : On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 +0200, laurent wrote: Hi, I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml after configuring courier-imap they say: Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started work for receiving a

Re: [gentoo-user] Same version in portage and overlay, how to mask?

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Alan McKinnon schrieb am 31.03.2009 21:37: > If I have identically named packages with the *same* version number in the > portage tree and in an overlay, how do I mask the overlay version without > deleting the overlay? > > I have kde-testing enabled to get koffice:2, but some packages conflict

[gentoo-user] Same version in portage and overlay, how to mask?

2009-03-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
If I have identically named packages with the *same* version number in the portage tree and in an overlay, how do I mask the overlay version without deleting the overlay? I have kde-testing enabled to get koffice:2, but some packages conflict with portage, like kscreensaver: [I] kde-base/kscre

Re: [gentoo-user] kacpid eating alot of cpu

2009-03-31 Thread Johan Blåbäck
Michael Higgins wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:57:11 +0200 Johan Blåbäck wrote: Is acpi suppose to act like this? No. But you probably really knew that. ;-) Can I fix it? I had to update to latest kernels, as bug patch for kacpid hogging CPU with certain laptops and certain configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken binary and revdep-rebuild doesn't find it.

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > ldd /usr/lib64/NX/bin/* | grep "not found" NX uses its own X libs (because NX is really an implementation of X protocol). Check in your NX/lib/ directory and you should find your files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken binary and revdep-rebuild doesn't find it.

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Wallis
On 09/03/2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > rea...@gentoo ~ $ ldd /usr/lib64/NX/bin/* | grep "not found" > libXcomp.so.3 => not found > libXcompext.so.3 => not found > libXcompshad.so.3 => not found > libXcomp.so.3 => not found > > So today's update of glibc seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread laurent
laurent a écrit : Xav' a écrit : On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 +0200, laurent wrote: Hi, I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml after configuring courier-imap they say: Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread laurent
Xav' a écrit : On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 +0200, laurent wrote: Hi, I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml after configuring courier-imap they say: Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started work for receiving a

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread Xav'
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:15:33 +0200, laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following this how to: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml > > after configuring courier-imap they say: > Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections > you've started work for receiving and se

[gentoo-user] Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-03-31 Thread laurent
Hi, I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml after configuring courier-imap they say: Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started work for receiving and sending mail. Of course, you won't be able to log on to any of the s

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
Interesting, I do use that module for sound... I'll try to rmmod it before shutting down... But my older pc (not eeepc) which has the same issue uses another driver... so maybe the problem is both with kernel options and with this driver on the eeepc... ill give it a try! Thanks a lot! On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-31 Thread Jarry
Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Due to the mentioned problems my question is, do I have to configure # gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 ... or ... # gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2-r3 At the end of GCC upgrade, I got these messages: __ * The

Re: [gentoo-user] full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
OK, i'll check this out tonight (if i have enough time, and if i can remember!) Thanks! On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:24:39 -0400 > Simon wrote: > >>   I'm recompiling the kernel almost as often as I breathe and i wonder >> if I'm not missing s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: full shutdown

2009-03-31 Thread Simon
I know, -P for powerdown after halt. but it doesnt change anything on both PC that have this issue and seems to have no effect on the one that works fine with just -h (Besides, with the number of people using linux, how many would want to shutdown -h without powering down?) On Sat, Mar 28, 2009

[gentoo-user] Qt application fonts completely illegible

2009-03-31 Thread Robin Atwood
Recently, with the help of people here, I prevented bitmap fonts from being used to render web pages by tweaking /etc/fonts. Suddenly today I noticed that pure Qt applications (*not* KDE apps) such as qtconfig have completely illegible fonts. These two thing may or may not be related. I also jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-31 Thread KH
Maximilian Bräutigam schrieb: > Hi all, > > it was said before: > >> You don't need to follow this guide. Just emerge and you'll be fine. >> > > I would expect, that this is not the whole purpose. For example if I use > "eix gcc", I get two installed versions: 4.1.2 and 4.3.2-r3 > > "gcc -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 Mar 2009, at 11:50, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/3/31 Stroller : I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and added the MY_P="${P/_beta/BETA}" line from http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=8

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-31 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > Hi all, > > it was said before: >> You don't need to follow this guide. Just emerge and you'll be fine. > > I would expect, that this is not the whole purpose. For example if I use > "eix gcc", I get two installed versio

[gentoo-user] [OT] Clock - gnome panel applet, first week day

2009-03-31 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! How to set monday instead of sunday?

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-31 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi all, it was said before: > You don't need to follow this guide. Just emerge and you'll be fine. I would expect, that this is not the whole purpose. For example if I use "eix gcc", I get two installed versions: 4.1.2 and 4.3.2-r3 "gcc -v" returns "gcc-Version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)" "gcc-co

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/31 Stroller : > > On 31 Mar 2009, at 09:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> 2009/3/31 Stroller : >>> >>> I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to >>> /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and added the >>> MY_P="${P/_beta/BETA}" line from >>> ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Xav'
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:33:12 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 31 Mar 2009, at 09:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> 2009/3/31 Stroller : >>> I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to >>> /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and >>> added the >>> MY_P="

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 11:33:12 Stroller wrote: > On 31 Mar 2009, at 09:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > 2009/3/31 Stroller : > >> I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to > >> /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and > >> added the > >> MY_P="${P

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 Mar 2009, at 09:47, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/3/31 Stroller : I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and added the MY_P="${P/_beta/BETA}" line from http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=874

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/31 Stroller : > I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to > /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and added the > MY_P="${P/_beta/BETA}" line from > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=8748&action=view but I still get > "File nmap-4.85_be

Re[5]: [gentoo-user] frambuffer Dell Vostro 1400

2009-03-31 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07:55 AM, Sergey wrote: > Monday, March 30, 2009, 8:59:58 PM, Alejandro wrote: >>> I have a similar laptop, with the same intel chip and intelfb also >>> didn't work. while vesafb works good. >>> Cheers! >>> Vesafb works fine for me too. >>> In native 1280x800 re

[gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-03-31 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Nmap 4.85BETA5 can scan for Windows PC infected with Conficker, which goes live tomorrow. Does anyone have an ebuild for Nmap 4.85BETA5, please? I tried copying nmap-4.76.ebuild (the latest in the Portage tree) to / usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/nmap/nmap-4.85_beta5.ebuild and ad

Re[4]: [gentoo-user] frambuffer Dell Vostro 1400

2009-03-31 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Monday, March 30, 2009, 8:59:58 PM, Alejandro wrote: >> I have a similar laptop, with the same intel chip and intelfb also >> didn't work. while vesafb works good. >> Cheers! >> Vesafb works fine for me too. >> In native 1280x800 resolution? > I can't remeber but maybe is 1024x768 I've en