Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into > > Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, > > instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle >

[gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes no difference. Can anyone either confirm or contradict this strange behavio

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 169.09-r1 problem [SOLVED]

2008-03-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Amar Cosic wrote: > It seems X isn't starting :( . What to do ? First: stop top-posting. Second: snip irrelevant parts of the mail you are replying to. Third: stop sending an additional HTML version of your mail. About your problem, I have no idea, sorry. Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: > Following a major upgrade I noticed that all my fonts > had shrunk drastically. I was able to enlarge all of > them, KDE, the desktop, consoles etc except the menu > bar and drop down menus in firefox. I can increase the > font size in the window no problem but not the menu >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona > -mtune=nocona" > CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona > -mtune=nocona" Recompile your entire system with -O2, and see if the problem persists. If it persists, show the full output of emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > chown -R user: ~user > > > > What does the "~" make it do different? > > Change user only for those files that have a different one. No. The ~ prefixed to a user name means the home dir of that user as

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > It sb possible using regular expressions in (G)Vim, It somebody...? It soundboard...? It antimony...? Ah, it should be... Why not type the few extra characters and save multiple readers a search through their abbreviations list? Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Justin wrote: > Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Can this top-posting stop, please? Interleave, and snip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Furthermore stage 1 is completely unsupported and for a very good > reason. Which good reason, Bo? You seem to know it, so maybe give a link somewhere; don't make us guess or search. Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I'm starting to wonder if I have two broken NICs after all. Do they work when you plug them into your firewall box? If they do, then it can really be only the cable. Are you certain that you're not using a cross-over cable when you need a straight one, or the other way

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Yes, I have a PCI sound card and it definitely works. My Oggs are > still playing. :-) Does the soundcard also work in the slots that you tried the NICs in? (If the soundcard doesn't work there, don't try the NIC in the original slot of the soundcard, unless you're prepa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Mmmh, so you think it could be software after all? No, if the light on the firewall and on the NIC itself don't come on when you plug in the ethernet cable, the card isn't working. When a different slot doesn't work either, it seems something on your PCI bus is dead. D

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: "media is not recognized as recordable DVD"

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel wrote: > $ eix cdrtools >Installed versions: 2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07) Uninstall this. Install cdrkit instead. Then try K3b again. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] bookmarks invisible in Firefox fullscreen

2007-12-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on > > the screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen > > mode won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is > > there --

[gentoo-user] bookmarks invisible in Firefox fullscreen

2007-12-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there -- because it is possible to select for example the last entry with and -- but it is invisible. (Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] python bug on gentoo with webbrowser module

2007-11-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: > import webbrowser > webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') Works fine for me, opens the site in Firefox. What version of Python? What's in your webbrowser._browsers? Python 2.4.4 (#1, Nov 9 2007, 16:26:42) >>> webbrowser._browsers {'kfm': [, ], 'links': [None, ],

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Sullivan wrote: > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 is not set This should be switched on. > # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 is not set And if you use IPv6, then this one too. But if you don't absolutely need IPv6, better switch all support for it off, just because it is less confusing that way.

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > The kernel is 2.6.22-r8 : I will try 2.6.23 tomorrow. No need, sorry, I was pointing you in the wrong direction. Kernel 2.6.22 already knows about 29c2 for i915. > I checked the wiki paragraph & the subdir it refers to > & the modules are already built & 'lsmod' shows them

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > I updated to the latest versions 7.0.1 7.0.1 2.1.1 & rebooted > & there is no change: X crashes as soon as 'glxinfo' starts > with the same error message "unrecognised deviceID 29c2" > while using /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so . What kernel version are you running? Try upda

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > 071029 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? > > 'mesa-progs-6.5.2' (latest available). Get the one from testing, 7.0.1. But what you need is media-libs/mesa; mesa-progs is just glxinfo/glxgea

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > Unrecognised deviceID 29c2 > backtrace ... > ... /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so ... (provided by pkg 'mesa') What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? And what is in the Section "Device" of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > On 10/19/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3238 > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2923 > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?i

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I have a sound problem with my dell1400 laptop: I have no sound > from the speakers in the laptop but I can have sound from > headphones after I insert them. > > Card: HDA Intel >│ Chip: SigmaTel STAC9228 https://bu

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very > severe problems. Could you give an example? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Paste

2007-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Korthrun wrote: > > > Since making these changes I've lost my middleclick to paste > > > functionality, Since you're not posting any more, did you succeed in getting the middle button working again? > Maybe I'll just set the box on fire tonight. Or may we conclude that you gave in to the tempta

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Now, I'm on the road to being up and running again. Good to hear your ordeal is over. What I would be most interested in seeing is a diff between the config of the working 2.6.21 and the failing 2.6.22. If on the current system both kernels have been installed, both con

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: > I wonder what am I hanging on to Gentoo for (since my first > install in 2004). > > I REALLY love the theory behind it. I REALLY think/thought it has > potential. I REALLY love the customization. So ask yourself what customizations you made in Gentoo that you can't make in

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > So what I thought was some residual problem with > screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really > the problem after all. It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you blanked the first few gigabytes of the disk with 'dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> zcat /proc/config.gz > > >> /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 > > > > This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one > > from the CD you booted f

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > 5) I did the step: > > zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from the CD you booted from), not the configuration you may have had earlier on the system you chrooted into. Did you twe

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Paste

2007-09-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Korthrun wrote: > I've done some tweaking of my xorg.conf, .xbindkeysrc and > .Xmodmap to get my logitech mx1000 working. The forums/wiki > helped a lot with this. You're not saying which forums or wiki. :) The https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MX1000Mouse page suggests that the following may b

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: > If I USE -mysql the PHP won't have support for mysql ? Precisely. If sqlite is not enough and you need mysql, then yiou will have to uninstall qmail and install ssmtp instead. Or file a bug in Gentoo's bugzilla against mysql, that it should be able to cope with qmail in

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Matthias Fechner wrote: > ---snip--- > Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 <<< app-shells/bash-3.1_p16 > Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 >>> app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 > Tue Sep 4 22:37:57 2007 >>> app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 > ---snip--- Please don't snip anything, show the full output. > app-shells/bash: 3.1_p17,

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: > I update de portage, You did what exactly? Did you run 'emerge --sync' or 'emerge -a portage'? > [ebuild N] virtual/mysql-5.0 > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.2.3-r3 [5.1.4] > USE="-fastbuild* -filter% -ftp* -hash* -imap* -json% -ldap-sasl% > -pic* -snmp* -sockets* -

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: > USE=" -X -gtk -gnome -kde -xpm -gpm -alsa -qt -java -ipv6 -berkdb > -gdbm -pdo -pdo-external -posix -cgi -force-cgi-redirect cli > apache2 ctype fastbuild ftp gd hash iconv mysql nls pcre pic > reflection session simplexml soap sockets spl ssl sqlite > tokenizer truetype xml

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Matthias Fechner wrote: > Installed versions: 3.1_p17(22:37:52 09/04/07)(-afs > -bashlogger nls -vanilla) > 3.2_p17(21:23:37 09/04/07) Hmm? You have two bashes installed? Please show us the output of 'qlop -ul bash' (qlop is from portage-utils). And paste the ou

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: > Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former > config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the > help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I just wish I > were any wiser, which I'm not. Sure you are. You've learned that shorewall sets

Re: [gentoo-user] how list all emerged portages?

2007-08-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Xihong Yin wrote: > How do I list all emerged portages? # emerge portage-utils # qlop --list sys-apps/portage Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. Huh? How is this machine able to boot then? Here /boot isn't a separate partition, but just a subdir of /, which is mounted without notail, and has been so for years. # mount | grep " / " /dev/hda9 on / type r

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > Or, I leave Vim encoding alone and run export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > and Vim will use that. > > Did I get this right? Precisely. But why don't you just try it and see how it behaves? > PS. What I am not entirely sure about is where is the locale set > for my system? When it's not s

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > :set encoding > encoding=latin1 > > I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1 No. To see what encoding a file has, you could use 'file'. Run 'file thefileyouedited', and it should say "UTF-8 Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > 070813 Philip Webb wrote: > > I now have (via a line in .bashrc ): > > > > LANG= > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" ... snip ... > > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Ideally LANG should be set and LC_ALL unset. The individual LC_* variables will take their value from LANG when LC_ALL is u

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean > that this is the vim encoding and any new file will be saved with > this encoding? No, scriptencoding is just the encoding of /etc/vim/vimrc. File encoding is handled by 'fileencodings' further down. > - If I open a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > purslow: system> locale > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" You will have to use a UTF-8 locale if you want mutt/gvim to be able to handle anything beyond ASCII. When setting a POSIX locale, I also get this: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit When using a UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote > > According to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator > > the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very > > well under Linux. > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > 070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > This suggests you are using a UTF-8 locale. > > In /etc/locale.gen I have > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 Well, that just shows which locales you have available, not which one you are actually using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > 070810 Alexander Skwar wrote: > > You wrote: "(I've just been reading LeCarré)". Notice the > > letters "é". This looks quite a lot like UTF-8 to me. > > In your header, "you" are saying, that you don't use UTF-8, > > though. > > I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: > It features an "Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100" > video chip. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. The G33 and friends are listed in drm

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > (I've just been reading LeCarré), Hmm... Your email uses UTF-8, but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. How come? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gary Artim wrote: > * IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc' need updating. > * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge > * man page to learn how to update config files. > localhost gary # find /etc -iname '._cfg*' > /etc/mutt/._cfg_Muttrc.dist > /etc/mutt/._cfg_mime.types.dist >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system > > wide w/o problem. > > > > Few questions: > > - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? If you have no problems, then just stick with ISO-8859-15. But switching t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I did notice something, I > had the gnome volume control open also and when I recorded it > toggles the audio capture from "Capture", if I untoggle it while > I'm recording, it works, the mic's input is recorded. Sounds like a misconfiguration somewhere. Or like a bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in > alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, > IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during modprobe. First check with 'aplay -

Re: [gentoo-user] -Os = Nono?

2007-07-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mike Edenfield wrote: > More importantly, -O2 seems to be the "typical" optimization > setting, and almost all free software packages are built and > tested and generally "supported", for whatever that means in an > open-source world, under -O2. If you report a bug in a package > and you use -Os, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul > really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar > (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can > invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid * x

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
> tux boot # df -T /boot >Type 1K Blocks UsedAvailable Use% > Mounted in /dev/hdc1 reiserfs 40120 40120 0 > 100% /boot > > That isn't the literal output, I had to translate it, There's no need to translate it. When posting output of a comman

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail cutting too late (was: Can't login with a normal user)

2007-06-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Jan-Hendrik Zab: > > O_o Dunno why it should be different in KMail? > > Hmm, maybe it's confused because of the two separators. It cuts > off after the second one, KMail by design cuts at the last separator instead of the first. Attached

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell XPS M1710 and Sound

2007-06-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > The *laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel. Ah, welcome to the madness that is called hda-intel. There are several versions of that thing, and each version comes in several different models. My dad's laptop has an ALC260, but whatever 'model=' modprobe option I tried, it s

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > > > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU > left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting endle

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: > So from now on I should always install a package with "-meta" if > its from kde (providing one is available eg. kdevelop)? Not necessarily. The meta packages are there to pull in a whole group of packages, so you don't have to name them all separately. But if you just use a

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: > My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord > (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to > files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: > [...] /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Options.glade /usr/share/AbiSui

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/29/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go > > through kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that > > takes some time. I guess one can reuse the old .config file, > > but I understand it's not always a s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Harel wrote: > emerge freealut failes with error: alutInit.c:150: error: wrong > type argument to unary exclamation mark. Too short. Email. Not enough. Info. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Devon Miller wrote: > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded > disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no > compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. If OpenGL acceleration is a must, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] noatime option is ignored for /

2007-05-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robert Cernansky wrote: > and 'mount' command shows: > > /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,usrquota,grpquota) > > but /proc/mounts does not show noatime option: > > /dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 Hmm, same thing here: # grep "/ " /etc/mtab /dev/hda9 / reiserfs rw,noatim

Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard video

2007-05-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP" could anyone tell me, what driver should I > use for it ? For the moment: xf86-video-vesa. Support for your type of Chrome integrated graphics chip is being worked on: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr

2007-05-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, > > let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then > > a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? > > No idea, but I tried it wh

[gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of > > copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in > > /etc will still be the old one. > > You are not supposed to link it any more, because tha

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Graham Murray wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The > > config protection mechanism works only for existing files. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with > > '## Placeholder, do not delete.' > > > > Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script > > back

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Iain Buchanan wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder, do not delete.' Otherwise a revision of the sloc

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > through the rules... > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED > -A UDP_IN -p udp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED The "-

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

2007-04-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel D Jones wrote: > 3.5.5-r10 Yes, might have been the one with the problem. If the thirty second pause bothers you, push on to 3.5.6. But as you seldom use a bare console, you can probably stand the wait for it going stable. :) Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Sat Apr 28 16:34:59 2007 >>> xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.1 Hmm, it looks like you're running unstable xfce. But if you can't handle the problems this might give, then you shouldn't be using unstable. Try commenting out all xfce lines in /etc/portage/package.keywords, re-updat

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

2007-04-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel D Jones wrote: > My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY. Since when? > When I hit CTL-ALT-F7 to switch back to > graphical mode, the screen goes black and it takes 25 to 30 > seconds before I see the KDM login screen again. I certainly > don't recall this process ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > The font is out of the control of my .fonts.conf. The english > characters are unclear as you can see in annex e.png. You mean there is too much anti-aliasing? > And the > Chinese characters are even more worse as you can see in annex > c.png You mean there is no anti-alia

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > After "emerge -uDN world", Not very informative. More useful information you could have provided with the output of 'genlop --list --date 2 days ago'. > I guess maybe because when I "etc-update",I change some files.But > I don't know which files. You don't make regular bac

Re: [gentoo-user] showconsole disappoints

2007-04-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: > But boot.msg is never more than 44 lines, a fraction > of total output. > > How do I get it all? What do you mean with "all"? Also the kernel messages? Those are found in /var/log/kernel.log. Or in the output of 'dmesg'. When asking a question, provide actual output. Pas

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. > Basically, I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; Option "TapButton0" "0" Option "TapButton1" "0" Option "TapButton2" "0" And restart X. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

2007-04-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Corbin wrote: > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)" > on my emerges. I've gotten for two different un-related > projects. It seems to happen during the "install". How about pasting the actual error output plus some twenty lines before it? And what are those

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > What's the hw_config part? It just means that the "hardware configuration is good". Sorry, couldn't resist. :) Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > > Does it also happen in another > > shell than bash (for example in 'busybox ash')? > > Just tried it: no, the problem was absent. Okay. Hmm... Which version of bash are you using? You're running stable so it should be 3.1. But I would have thought that the problem you

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > >> I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need > >> sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to > >> be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to > >> be entered twice. Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Ar

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes > need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be > recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be > entered twice. The problem has bee present for some time and I > have noted the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up

2007-04-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael George wrote: > What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have > open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the > displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can > get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% > of one

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Graham Murray wrote: > Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when > you exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the > next command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the > command prompt on exit. If you want the VT behaviour also in X, then alias les

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
b.n. wrote: > However /etc/portage/color.map looks just like what I was > thinking about... except for the fact I can't find it (and > "locate" tells me nothing too). I made a man page for it once. Don't know if it's still accurate: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=89762 Benno -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find eth0?

2007-04-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I have a intel network device but my machine never reconize it. > > My network device is: > > # lspci | grep net > 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit > Ethernet Controller (rev 02) What does 'dmesg | grep -e 01:0a -e eth' report? Have you read /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Busybox update fail

2007-03-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 07:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > you'll normally want to generate your errors in the "C" locale > > before posting them here or in bugzilla. > > Hmm, out of curiosity, how do you go about doing that? By preceding the relevant command with LC_ALL=C.

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources-2.6.18 booting very slow and no network connection

2007-03-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I have an instance of hardened sources using selinux as a > webserver. 2.6.16 is running fine however 2.6.18-r6 boots up, but > it's terribly slow The 2.6.18 kernel was slow for me too (normal gentoo-sources), not terribly, but noticeably sluggish. You might try pus

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

2007-02-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > If it still fails then I'll have to return here one more time to > ask questions about what needs to be rebuilt. Have you tried moving ~/.evolution out of the way? Maybe it's just a broken config file that makes all versions of Evo stumble. > Must I rebuild > everything or

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: > I wonder if someone needs to > tell the programmer for portage that kwrite doesn't like those > *** in there at all? Should I file it as a bug? Of course not. If anything, it's a bug in KWrite. Why are you using KWrite anyway to look at the emerge log? Why not use something lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: > Here is the thing that is so odd, it will open any other > large file and work fine but it will mess up on emerge.log. Open a copy of your emerge.log in vim and do: :%s/\*\*\*// After that KWrite will handle the file without a problem. As to why, I can only guess: when the sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Grant wrote: > I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: > > KEYMAP="es" > > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have > changed. The keymap where? The keymap on the console should be es after the above change. To change it in X too, use Option "XkbLayout" "es" in xorg.conf, or set it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunar won't build?

2007-02-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:22:46 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > For those of us thusly disabled, I think it would be a very > > good idea to actually state that default search is only for > > open bugs on the search page at ttp://bugs.gentoo.org/ _and_ > > display on the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Iliev wrote: > As already mentioned in this thread the workaround is to > un-keyword a concrete version, not the whole package. This is not a workaround, it's a _better way of achieving the goal. When portage just flags packages gone stable, you have to watch the pretend output yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: > Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely related. > So either I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding > my request... It's extremely frustrating. Yes, the bug wrangler looks a bit overworked sometimes. :| Those bugs don't seem duplicates to m

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mike wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > No other suggestions? > > The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency > desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop > useable under heavy disk usage. And check you have HZ set to 1000. $ grep HZ /usr/src/linux/.config

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount= 16 (on) > IO_support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq= 1 (on) > using_dma= 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead= 256 (on) > geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 2344930

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