Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glx & dri fail to load for nv

2010-05-14 Thread Grant
>> I'm seeing tearing from the nv xorg driver.  I think it's because the >> glx and dri modules are failing to load, and I think that's because >> I'm missing a kernel option or two.  Can anyone tell me what I might >> be missing in the kernel for an Nvidia card? >> >> BTW, the proprietary nvidia d

[gentoo-user] Re: glx & dri fail to load for nv

2010-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/15/2010 06:31 AM, Grant wrote: I'm seeing tearing from the nv xorg driver. I think it's because the glx and dri modules are failing to load, and I think that's because I'm missing a kernel option or two. Can anyone tell me what I might be missing in the kernel for an Nvidia card? BTW, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 May 2010, at 23:35, John J. Foster wrote: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I was getting close to 11 months, which would

[gentoo-user] glx & dri fail to load for nv

2010-05-14 Thread Grant
I'm seeing tearing from the nv xorg driver. I think it's because the glx and dri modules are failing to load, and I think that's because I'm missing a kernel option or two. Can anyone tell me what I might be missing in the kernel for an Nvidia card? BTW, the proprietary nvidia driver works great

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: > > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file > > --delete --delete-excluded --partial > > -

[gentoo-user] Re: SIP client with bluetooth headset support?

2010-05-14 Thread Grant
> My bluetooth headset was working great with twinkle, but now it's out > of the tree and I can't find another SIP client that works with a > bluetooth headset.  Does anybody know of one?  linphone is said to > work, but I can't make it happen even after an exhaustive effort. > > - Grant It works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-14 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 May 2010 20:28:39 you wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 13:11:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:15:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > This worked for me > > > > > > lafilefixer --justfixit > > > emerge --oneshot --jobs 1 --keep-going $(qfile -qC $(find /usr/lib64 > > > \

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-14 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 13:11:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:15:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > This worked for me > > > > lafilefixer --justfixit > > emerge --oneshot --jobs 1 --keep-going $(qfile -qC $(find /usr/lib64 > > \ -name '*.la' | xargs grep -- -lpng12 | awk -F: '{print $

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Xianwen Chen
I see. Thanks a lot! X On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? >> >> X >> >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 >> >> [2] http://gentoo-port

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread ubiquitous1980
Looked at the overlays. Following overlays list contain some of the matching ebuilds: http://www.ebuildfind.net/search/?q=pdfedit Thanks Ubiquitous1990 On 14/05/10 21:47, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi list, > > pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? > > X > > [1] http

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Xianwen Chen
Thanks a lot! Xianwen On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Looked at the overlays.  Following overlays list contain some of the > matching ebuilds: > > http://www.ebuildfind.net/search/?q=pdfedit > > Thanks > > Ubiquitous1990 > > On 14/05/10 21:47, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Hi l

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi list, > > pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? > > X > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 > > [2] http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=pdfedit According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158188#

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Mick
On 14 May 2010 14:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: >> When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's >> navigation bar I get an error message: >> >> "Protocol not supported AudioCD" >> >> What am I missing? > > multimedia-kioslaves? Spot on! :-

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 May 2010 15:47:54 Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi list, > > pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? > > X > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 Did you read this bug at all? The answer is in it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158188#c25 -- alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-14 8:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is >>> a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after >>> installing all the bug fixes and service packs >> O

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > On 14 May 2010 14:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > >> When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's > >> navigation bar I get an error message: > >> > >> "Protocol not supported AudioCD" > >> > >> Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Mick
On 14 May 2010 14:47, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi list, > > pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? > > X > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 > > [2] http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=pdfedit I don't know for sure, but has pdfedit been ported into Qt4 yet? -- R

Re: [gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread justin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/10 15:47, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi list, > > pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? > > X > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 > > [2] http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=pdfedit It seems to be a qt3 ap

[gentoo-user] No ebuild for pdfedit?

2010-05-14 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi list, pdfedit was in the portage tree [1], but not anymore[2]. Why is that? X [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/158188 [2] http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=pdfedit -- Xianwen Chen, M.Sc. Scientific assistant, BFE, UiT (www.uit.no) Tel.: +47 776 46 112 | Fax: +47 776 46 020

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's > navigation bar I get an error message: > > "Protocol not supported AudioCD" > > What am I missing? multimedia-kioslaves?

[gentoo-user] Konqueror - Audio CD browser

2010-05-14 Thread Mick
When I click on the Audio CD Browser short cut in Konqueror's navigation bar I get an error message: "Protocol not supported AudioCD" What am I missing? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding the mouse

2010-05-14 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 14 May 2010 13:16:39 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > Hi, Hi, > my old mouse died. She became 12 years old...what a young soul... ;) > > Today I had to buiy a new one (Logitech MX518,wired). I have that one, too, though I bought it about 2.5 years ago, so there might be differe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is > > a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after > > installing all the bug fixes and service packs > > Ok, either you are joking (but the wording do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-13 7:21 PM, walt wrote: > AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is > a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after > installing all the bug fixes and service packs Ok, either you are joking (but the wording doesn't make that very clear), or

[gentoo-user] Decoding the mouse

2010-05-14 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, my old mouse died. She became 12 years old...what a young soul... ;) Today I had to buiy a new one (Logitech MX518,wired). This one has a laser a some additional buttons to play with. General question: Are these buttons free for assigning any function to them (do they send "button 4 on mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Android tether and wpa_supplicant

2010-05-14 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
It was working on network manager + ubuntu, but i cant connect on my gentoo+wicd box. You have to change mode to Ad-Hoc at Your Gentoo Box :) its working (i haven't tested it with encryption, but plaint just works) -- Bartosz Szatkowski KeyFP: 1568 D5A7 B14C 0727 1C61 ACFB ABDE C08A DDB7 1F70 T

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file > --delete --delete-excluded --partial > --human-readable / /media/root-backup As the rsync command is failin

Re: [gentoo-user] script for sending mail with attachement?

2010-05-14 Thread Fab
2010/5/12 Brett Freer > > Hi Jarry, > mpack -s "backup" file.bak u...@somewhere.com > Brett Freer > AFAIK, mpack is unmaintained, and the last version does not work on amd64 (gentoo bug #171075). I would recommend net-mail/sendEmail.

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:17:51 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > wtmp begins Sat May 1 08:23:36 2010 > > > > which doesn't really help much. > > Strange. My wtmps are quite older: The default logrotate.conf rotates wtmp monthly. -- Neil Bothwick Mouse: (n.) an input device used by management