Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 21:31:55 Dale wrote: > That sounds great to me. I hope it will be easier for everybody than > this hal, evdev thing. > > I notice there is something devkit in portage already. I wonder if they > are already working on it? I hope so. devkit is being actively developed, b

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009 21:31:55 Dale wrote: > >> That sounds great to me. I hope it will be easier for everybody than >> this hal, evdev thing. >> >> I notice there is something devkit in portage already. I wonder if they >> are already working on it? I hope so. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] pxe boot + nfs mountpoints

2009-07-12 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Monday 29 June 2009 19:19:53 schrieb James: > /etc/exports is as follows: > > /pxe/diskless/gentoo > *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /opt > *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /usr > *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,n

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Grant wrote: > >> I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. > >> I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed > >> ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking > >> images, and I'm wondering if there's any

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6

2009-07-12 Thread Arttu V
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or adding an entry to package.mask? !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the depende

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6

2009-07-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 07/11, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: === > This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two > can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or > adding an entry to package.mask? === It's probably a bug that the readline package is not slotted. It i

[gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am not at all competent at modifying ebuilds. I am trying to emerge an ebuild locally for testing and I have two problems straight off the mark. a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already copied into my /usr/portage/distfiles? b)Trying to create a manifest g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/12/09, Mick wrote: > a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already copied > into my /usr/portage/distfiles? Add RESTRICT="fetch", plus add an informational function pkg_nofetch. Search for them for example here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 July 2009 14:59:33 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not at all competent at modifying ebuilds. I am trying to emerge an > ebuild locally for testing and I have two problems straight off the mark. > > a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already copied > into my /u

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Help tweaking an ebuild

2009-07-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 12 July 2009, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/12/09, Mick wrote: > > a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already > > copied into my /usr/portage/distfiles? > > Add RESTRICT="fetch", plus add an informational function pkg_nofetch. > Search for them for example here: > > htt

[gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

2009-07-12 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
G'day folks; FYI - previous issues: Technical Caveat #1 fglrx only supports 16 / 24 bit colour depth, therefore within the Xorg Config I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section & subsections. Technical Caveat#2 xf86-drivers/mouse and xf86-drivers/kyd needed to be recompiled with the emer

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

2009-07-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 Juli 2009, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > G'day folks; > > FYI - previous issues: > Technical Caveat #1 > fglrx only supports 16 / 24 bit colour depth, therefore within the Xorg > Config I had to add DefaultDepth 24 the "Screen0" section & subsections. > > Technical Caveat#2 > xf86-

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 9.6 on Gentoo 2.6.30

2009-07-12 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Yes that's correct it's an Xorg related issue; I'm just letting everyone know that when you update your drivers; make sure you update or xorg installation, your Xorg drivers and what not. I also had to re-install Xfce (upgraded to 4.6) and as a result of this upgrade I had to install the gnome an

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:23:55AM -0500, Penguin Lover William Hubbs squawked: > In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used > software speech synthesizer. So, if there are not any objections, I am > considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:57:26PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > > Hmm, I don't think it gets anywhere: > > > === > > > cat test.xml | grep -v NaN | grep '' | tr e ' ' | awk > > > {'print "Q"$2"qcq"$3"qcq"$9"Q"'} | tr Q '"' | tr c ',' | tr q '"'" > > >

[gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-12 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to install git on gentoo. I'm getting a dependency that is masked, it's a perl lib and am wondering a workaround? Thanks. Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-12 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56:45PM -0400, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install git on gentoo. I'm getting a dependency that > is masked, it's a perl lib and am wondering a workaround? > Thanks. > Dave. > > _What_ perl lib is it? There's over nine thousand of them. -- Jake Todd //