Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: SNIP No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that.  I tried different kernels, different nvidia drivers and all with no change. WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? I did but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Sure sounds familiar to me... - Mark On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that.  I tried different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: András Csányi wrote: I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in this list Chromium and everything subject. May I ask which kernel do you use? I remember the thread, even replied a couple times, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: No worries.  Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you missed something.  I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think with no errors.  That takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

2011-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP It works as long as I don't open Firefox.  If I open Firefox, poof!!  No more trapped smoke.  lol Dale So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested running it in strace. Did you have a chance to try

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP A little more info.  After my last message, I opened Firefox.  It locked up.  That runs as a regular user of course.  So, I wanted to test a theory.  I logged into Fluxbox after my reboot.  I opened Firefox and it locked up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jens Reinemuth j...@reinemuth.info wrote: Hi everybody, i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10) with an adaptec aic79xx Controller... I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some (older) howtos

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-07-07 09:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary lengths to support everything under the sun. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system.  I'm in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my breath it will change anything.  So, I'm wanting to try a unstable version of both gcc and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2011 01:03:03 Dale wrote: I might add, the last time it locked up, I had a compile process running in a console.  I watched the hard drive light, it was blinking away. So, the root of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Dale, random hard-lockups are only due to hardware or kerne, it can't be otherwisel (drivers count as part of kernel). The fact that compilation doesn't lock your system only means that the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: If I had to guess I'd say, since this followed a power failure where the machine was live and operating (if I've understood the thread through a quick scan) that some file on disk has gotten corrupted

Re: [gentoo-user] Get source URLs of packages?

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Is there a way to determine the source URL of a package without actually emerging ? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan Not sure what you mean by 'source URL' but you can get the homepage of a package using eix. That almost always

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to unmerge app-editors/nano (part of system)

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have this strange problem for a few days: after normal updates (I think glib has been updated) I tried to run emerge --depclean (as recommended) but got these messages: --- obelix ~ # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. KMS doesn't require X, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and some special kernel line stuff.  None of the X related stuff is necessary. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 13:47:28 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: The way I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 July 2011 14:15:12 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: SNIP I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and not about any

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Hello, atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP As a follow-up to your problems, and because I'm just plain interested in this /dev/null,console question, I decided to create a completely new Gentoo VM myself from scratch this morning. I'm going FAR more slowly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like init=/sbin/init 1 to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be instructive about where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: SNIP The boot process does get a little farther but comes to a halt at  Switching to clock source tsc And there it has sat for some time now.  Apparently is not going to continue. That EXACT symptom was EXACTLY what we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: SNIP First, thanks for going well beyond the call of duty and showing the patience of Job. Gawd, you must not know about all the public help I've received here over the years? It's the LEAST I can do. Those files are

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:49 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? Best regards, mcc I don't know about removing /etc/machine-id,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: Here's the kernel config from my 64-bit 2.6.38-gentoo-r3 VM Mark is that guest running in vmware or something else than Virtual Box. The guest that uses that kernel is running

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org [110624 08:25]: On 6/24/2011 8:03 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: * Mike Edenfieldkut...@kutulu.org  [110623 18:34]: It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: SNIP I fully agree and `SystemRescueCD' is exactly what I ended up using still failed to get a working gentoo vm though.  Why is it such a bitch to install gentoo into a guest vm? Hi Harry, You've said this a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:    As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [110622 18:35]: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: SNIP No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the fortran use flag

[gentoo-user] nvidia-settings over ssh sees my local GPU?

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, BACKGROUND ONLY: I've got a futures trading partner who is attempting to give up Windows if he can. I've helped him install Gentoo on his new machine. The box is up and running and so far very productive for him. We're struggling a bit with getting his three monitor setup working like it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-settings over ssh sees my local GPU?

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:    My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I shell into his machine using

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I install with kde-meta.  It pulls about all things KDE in with that.  For me, it is better to use kde-meta than to do it any other way.  Even with kde-meta, I think there is a few that I still had to emerge manually.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fbsplash

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I wonder what 3.0 will be like Newer... ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Heads up for folks about to do their updates, check into the USE flag fortran to see if you need to add it to yours before updating a bunch of stuff. Dale This is my one strange, mystery global use flag. It's been turned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:49 -0500, Dale wrote: To think people wonder why my USE line is so big.  I keep having to add stuff when portage pukes but portage never tells me when one has fell off the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Well, it appeared to only affect gcc here. As it should? c2stable ~ # equery hasuse fortran * Searching for USE flag fortran ... [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5:4.4 c2stable ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 14:29:58 Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Heads up for folks about to do their updates, check into the USE flag fortran to see if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I guess I can stop playing scaredicat and remove it. :-) - Mark I think the dev added it back.  So, if you really don't need it, put the minus sign in front. If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf explicitly says -fortran in it. That's actually the correct statement. When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I suppose)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf explicitly says -fortran in it. For kicks I decided to give -fortran a try. I find it interesting that with Fortran installed using either

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: SNIP No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the fortran use flag enabled (since there's no fortran compiler available.) The deps pulling in blas-reference are in my previous mail. Todd If

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance somewhere that I can just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I emerge -C ifc and revdep-rebuild rebuilt some stuff but it is gone now.  So, you may have to work with it but it *might* be removable too. Dale Hi Dale, For me this was more about following along with the thread and

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:28:05 Mark Knecht wrote: I get about 8MB/S download but only about 250KB/S upload. Should those B's be b's? In other words, bits instead of bytes? Or are you on something much faster

[gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Nils Larsson n...@nerdshack.com wrote: On Monday 20 June 2011 08:25:57 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoolkit-0.3.0.4: Digest verification failed

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yesterday I updated gentoolkit to the last stable version (0.3.0.4), but when I tried to update today, I got these messages: === styx / # emerge --ask --update

[gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently I'm helping a Windows friend bring up his first Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: future moderation

2011-06-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, An odd post here but I'm sitting up after midnight with a few beers and I wanted to get an advanced word on this. I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ruby-talk mailing list at the moment (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorting soundcards...

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:39 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, With my PC I have three soundcards (from the Alsa point of view), which are:    0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfcaf8000 irq 16    1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia  

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find b43 in kernel config

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've satisfied these requirements: Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] WLAN [=y] SSB_POSSIBLE [=y] MAC80211 [=n] HAS_DMA [=y] but I don't see the option here: Location: - Device Drivers - Network device support (NETDEVICES

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find b43 in kernel config

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: SNIP What is 'b43'? When I have that problem I typically start with cat /usr/src/.config | grep b43 which returns nothing implying to me that b43 doesn't exist at all. - Mark Mark this isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember. I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull in any KDE libs

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP And all of these machines are using the kde profile? Of course not.  Why would you put a server (or anything else) in the kde profile unless you wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Then you missed the point of the thread. Quite possibly. Actually, my comment was unfair and I apologize. If you didn't happen to read every part of the thread

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Latest portage-2.2.0_alpha38 has changed something with system set and depclean handling. It now shows this: !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP #370295 Zac responded (comment #21) to my post in that bug with quite a well-reasoned rationale. It makes interesting reading. It was a good response. One question left hanging for me goes like this: I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP #370295 Zac responded (comment #21

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:39:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:    What I didn't like about this issue popping up yesterday is that it altered the idea that average users never touch anything in @system. Iin fact, TTBOMK I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:39 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly:    I have no problem with saying someone needs to understand what less does. less isn't important. It's just the example

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: That's what I thought until I moved to the kde profile, at which time it seems to about 80% of kde-meta became part of @system. SNIP I complained about KDE stuff being in the system set long ago

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish!

2011-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days, unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs developer; the number of emails on both lists combined is just more than I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Friday 03 June 2011 22:50:28 Mick wrote: Agreed. I do wish we'd get something open and reasonably well coded to replace  flash, I do hope that html5 will do away with it altogether. you can

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: There doesn't seem to be anything in the VBox.log that indicates the system had a hard lockup. I imagine the kernel panicing resulted in VirtualBox being unable to write to the log. Is anyone running VB on a Linux raid partition?

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'll get the error message and then post it here. I'm using Samsung drives that haven't seen any other problems under heavily utilization. What specific kernel version are you using? What version of vbox? -j The underlying

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6 I find that it is easier to unmerge old version :4.5 KDE, then emerge the new version

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS more than 1 processor. It would suck badly

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am interested in usb support within virtualbox guests. The version I am currently using does not offer it:   virtualbox-3.2.12-r4 would the bin package  virtualbox-bin- 3.2.12-r1 has it?  Is the usb

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:50:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS set? Without it you will get errors like this. I have this in my .zshrc to set it on SSH logins. [[ -n ${SSH_TTY} ]] export

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/25/2011 12:15 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Valmor,   Take a look at the Extension Pack. It might give you more of what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:01:59 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: mark@gandalf ~ $ ssh -X -Y -C laptop Password: Last login: Sun May 22 03:50:07 PDT 2011 from 192.168.1.2 on pts/0 mark@laptop1 ~ $ konsole unknown program name

Re: [gentoo-user] Wierd key bindings in Firefox

2011-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. In Firefox 3.6.17, I would expect Page up/down to scroll ~a page up / down, and for up/down arrow to scroll a small number of lines up/down. This doesn't happen.  Instead Page up/down do nothing, arrow down

[gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app (gnome-terminal for instance) running on that machine here on my screen. However when I ssh from

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
. -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net On May 22, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,   I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman Bill, That's not a fix as it isn't konsole I care about but things like oocalc, systemsettings and other things which all fail with the same error

Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:57 AM, JDM j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk wrote: Genthinktank, How can you determine all the available frambuffer resolutions and colour depths on a particular host for vesafb. I normally set this through trial and error but there must be a command to determine these?

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP everything else just works (well, apart from Flash in web browsers, but that hardly counts). -- Rgds Peter What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating to OpenRC? Granted, I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

2011-05-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:57:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:35:11 Mark Knecht wrote: What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating to OpenRC? Granted, I run only

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 seems to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility prior to chrooting and having any such utility in $PATH. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2011/05/12 17:03 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On 2011/05/12 16:41 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 seems to  have a circular reference, that is,

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have done theirs?  Is it pretty simple and just works or are there issues?  I'm mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/10/2011 09:34 AM, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: otherwise. Just enable ondemand, disable everything else, and et the kernel get on with doing what it does best: So this is what

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.6 upgrade - no applications

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
For anyone who has a stable machine, upgrades KDE as per the release from last night and finds, like me, that they had no applications in the applications menu, the command kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental run from the user account should help you get running again. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.6 upgrade - no applications

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 19:36:54 Mark Knecht wrote: For anyone who has a stable machine, upgrades KDE as per the release from last night and finds, like me, that they had no applications in the applications menu, the command

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 02 May 2011 10:11:06 Thanasis wrote: Let me add that my system defaults to the _stable_ software branch. Thanks for the heads up.  :) It seems then that Baselayout2/OpenRC is being rolled out to stable.  I'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I've unmasked the latest available after reading the changelogs:  sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.2  sys-apps/openrc-0.8.2-r1 All seems to work fine here. -- Regards, Mick baselayout-2.0.2 seems like the obvious

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:11:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: How will you / did you decide what versions to unmask? Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command do I run today to unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? I use ~amd64 portage so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: On 04/28/11 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the

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