Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Heorhii Valakhanovich
On 21.07.2010 5:46, James wrote: I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/21/2010 04:46 AM, James wrote: hello, I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new

[gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread fajfusio
HiI've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't wantto rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled withnew version. I hope that after a few month there will be only a number ofpackages not compiled with a new gcc. Then I want to recompile them

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: hello, I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version. I hope that after a few month there will be only a number of

[gentoo-user] [OT] how to extract a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when I use a - type ebuild which accesses the source from a GIT repository this is stored under /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/$PN where $PN is the package name. But one cannot look at the source files since these are in compressed form. How can I setup a directory with the

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version. I hope that after a few month there

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.6.7 any flash player on 64bit

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody have more luck with firefox-3.6.7 playing flash videos? I've tried libflashplayer.so (64 bit) /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libgnashplugin.so (64 bit) nothing works or even crash firefox. Since there are the well-known printing problem for CUPS-1.4.x it's one of the worst

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2010 03:22 AM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:53:19 fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I've just switched to gcc 4.3.4 from 4.1.2 using gcc-config tool. I don't want to rebuild any package now. As time goes on my packages will be compiled with new version.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-3.6.7 any flash player on 64bit

2010-07-21 Thread Heorhii Valakhaniovich
On 07/21/2010 03:23 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, does anybody have more luck with firefox-3.6.7 playing flash videos? I've tried libflashplayer.so (64 bit) /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libgnashplugin.so (64 bit) nothing works or even crash firefox. Since there are the well-known

[gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that one is): checking for required

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way after trying to emerge openoffice

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2010 01:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. quite a plus with the box running for 10 hrs a day at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Blackdream W
perl-cleaner --all 2010/7/22 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 20:33:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Heorhii Valakhaniovich
On 07/21/2010 07:14 PM, Blackdream W wrote: perl-cleaner --all It's better to do perl-cleaner -p --all before to watch what can happen.

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable difference. But, to make

[gentoo-user] SPF sendmail: howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jarry
Hi, I would like to integrate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) with my MTA (sendmail), but can not find any documentation for dealing with SPF, Sendmail Gentoo. I could install mail-filter/libspf2, but how can I make sendmail use it? There are milters for SenderID, DKIM, or DK in portage tree,

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:04:54 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What is the user required to do after updating Perl? elogv doesn't tell me anything about upgrading. Really? I got this message when going from 5.10 to 5.12 WARN: setup UPDATE THE PERL MODULES: After updating dev-lang/perl you must

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF sendmail: howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 21:51:47 Jarry wrote: Hi, I would like to integrate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) with my MTA (sendmail), but can not find any documentation for dealing with SPF, Sendmail Gentoo. I could install mail-filter/libspf2, but how can I make sendmail use it? There

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was a noticeable

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to extract a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Kyle Bader
ebuild PATH TO ebuild file unpack and then look at /var/tmp/portage//work/ but is there a direct way (or how does portage do this)? I'm not sure how portage does this but the git directory is likely bare which is why you don't see any branch files. Try: git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 20:33:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 23:14:35 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: This is a painful process. It's enough to drive a sysadmin to drink or (god forbid), to Windows. Portage can't help as the ebuild doesn't know what you have installed. So you must run a script to go and dig out all this crap

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I recompiled all my packages after I upgraded to 4.4 and it was

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Dale wrote My last KDE upgrade made KDE a little faster here as well. It won't be as fast as e17 tho. Since I upgraded gcc a little before that, I wasn't sure if it was gcc building better code or KDE got rid of some garbage. It is a little

Re: [gentoo-user] SPF sendmail: howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Jason Carson
To enable SPF on outgoing mail all you have to do is create a SPF record and put it in your /var/bind/domain.tld.hosts file, assuming your using Bind. That's all I did and when I send email to Google its says... Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ja...@jasoncarson.ca designates

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs, creates noticeably faster code. I

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy gcc switching

2010-07-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 00:18:05 Bill Longman wrote: On 07/21/2010 12:39 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:49:46 Bill Longman wrote: And to play devil's advocate, I'll chime in with my experience. The 4.4 GCC, at least on AMD CPUs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 23:14:35 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: This is a painful process. It's enough to drive a sysadmin to drink or (god forbid), to Windows. Portage can't help as the ebuild doesn't know what you have installed. So you

[gentoo-user] dying hard drive

2010-07-21 Thread David Relson
/var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody think the file system is recoverable? Also, palimpsest is reporting (graphically) that my external hard drive is about to die. Can I save it's report to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 22 Juli 2010, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 23:14:35 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: This is a painful process. It's enough to drive a sysadmin to drink or (god forbid), to Windows. Portage can't help as