Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this driver to work. The gentoo os is running on a lenov

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:55:00 +0100, Shoka wrote: On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: My solution to simplify Gentoo... waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-libs/pam sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal That's as much crippling as simplifying. You can do w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older version

2010-02-09 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:45:20 +0100, Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi, I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in portage is 6.5.7. How could I do that?? thanks Laurent add this to your package.mask: ">=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.7.1" and then emerge imagemagick again

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:58:10 +0100, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 2/9/2010 3:16 AM, Dale wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: My solution to simplify Gentoo... waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:18:54 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 10 February 2010 01:02:50 Dale wrote: Oh I'm fine. Thank Goodness! Now to go watch NCIS. I won't ask what that is; I think I'd rather not know. NCIS = Naval Criminal Investigative Service. It's good ;) I am w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:55:23 +0100, Roy Wright wrote: On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Yes, I can organize my files to the point where I rarely ever use find. Just because you can't, is not a reason to slow down eve

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:05:46 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 09:31:21 Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:18:43PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications t

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:13:14 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 23:40:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote: True, but even those using Openbox, icewm, etc. were introduced to the mess that HAL is, and also to dbus. Sure you can choose not to have hal/dbus/*kit, but then you also

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:37:08 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:40:37 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: True, but even those using Openbox, icewm, etc. were introduced to the mess that HAL is, and also to dbus. You're trying to assign guilt by association. They were

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: Particularly when your wm can handle all the inter-app communication that is necessary without dbus. the problem is the WM can NOT handle all the inter-app communication

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:03:27 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> Particularly when your wm can handle all

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 01:10:58 Zeerak Waseem wrote: But honestly, I don't have a solution to the problem, what I can however say is that my browser and my mail app, are pretty deft at realizing that their attempts to acc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:04:38 +0100, walt wrote: On 02/11/2010 01:35 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: It just seems silly that if you want to use the newest version of kate, kmail etc. > that semantic-desktop is forced upon you, when you're not interested in having the > entire

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:53:20 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 01:52:37 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 01:10:58 Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> But honestly, I don't have a solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the DE. It just seems a bit backwards to me :-) I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> But I do find it silly, that the various app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:46:57 +0100, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Zeerak Waseem On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> But I do find it silly, that the various applications th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:51:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks. When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in that insane idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
try adding this to your xorg.conf: Section "Serverflags" Option "DontZap""False" EndSection On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:07 +0100, Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:16 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for "Night of the week for strip club attendance:" I would report

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
A guess would be it puts a reminder for a weekly occurrence, like going to the strip club! ;-) But of course, you are right, in the end :-) Zeerak On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:55:46 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/04/2009 06:24 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:16

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:15:52 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Erik wrote: Stroller skrev: > On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> ... >> There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of >> week, last working day of week and day o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it?

2009-11-08 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02:34 +0100, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote: What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo install guide. This was about 6 ye

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:08:18 +0100, Iain Buchanan wrote: However, if someone has the root password to log in to X, then what's to stop them changing anything you do now? I've been wondering about the very same thing... Perhaps it's just to only have a root shell and not an entire DE runn

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation

2009-11-14 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:25:13 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 14 Nov 2009, at 17:55, Nelis Botha wrote: ... I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have f

[gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)

2009-11-22 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting

[gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)

2009-11-22 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)

2009-11-22 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:04:17 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 22:26:36 Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build

2009-12-01 Thread Zeerak Waseem
if you're using an intel core2 processor, the proper -march setting is -march=nocona On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:26:28 +0100, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I need to build gcc 4.2 on a core 2 duo system. The only 4.2.x version is 4.2.4, which is masked by ~. When I try to build it fails: ... /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-02 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Nope, but if there isn't a particular reason for using thunderbird (ie. some function unlikely to be found in other clients). But opera webbrowser comes with an email client built into it, and if you use a panel view, well you'll get a nice little tree called mailing lists :-) So if switchin

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-02 Thread Zeerak Waseem
This is my etc/conf.d/net file: modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" preferred_aps=("ESSID1" "ESSID2") essid_wlan0="any" All specific stuff is in /wpa_supplicant/supplicant.conf Zeerak On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0100, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Which LiveCD for Intel Core2 Duo?

2009-12-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Well, if you wantto install a 64bit env. then you have to use the AMD64 livecd. IA64 isn't the 64bit architecture :-) Zeerak On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:00:22 +0100, Erik wrote: I will install Gentoo Linux on a Dell laptop with Intel Core2 Dua and 8GiB RAM. I tried 2 different LiveCDs. x86 boots

Re: [gentoo-user] Invitation from Mohamed Hagag

2009-12-12 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Well, I assumed the same thing, but if we all assume that someone else is doing it... I just tried and it is done :-) Zeerak On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:20:08 +0100, Dale wrote: Mohamed Hagag wrote: You received this e-mail because someone you know thought you may find this website interes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-13 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On my system I have libXtst-1.1.0 installed but I'm running with xextproto-7.1.1 try unmasking xextproto and see if that helps. On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:27:11 +0100, wrote: walt [09-12-14 01:08]: On 12/13/2009 10:03 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Hi, > >emerge of xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 fail

Re: [gentoo-user] does slim work with xorg-server1.7.3?

2009-12-17 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:45:20 +0100, fei huang wrote: I've found the slim login manager will hang the computer if I enter "exit" or "console" in the panel, blank screen and no response at all, had to push the reset button to recover. I did not test it under the previous xorg-server installa

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Zeerak Waseem
The eix-remote -q update command should take care of that. Try running it and searching for something that you know isn't in one of the overlays that you use :-) On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:58:44 +0100, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday

[gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Hey guys, I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? 2) Can a set be included in the world file? 3) With set files in /usr/portage/sets and running "emerge -u @foo" portage yields that @foo isn't a valid package atom, any i

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding sets

2010-01-05 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Zeerak Waseem writes: I have some questions about sets: 1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets, right? I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like system, world, m

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 failure

2010-01-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:32:01 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 January 2010 15:17:05 GerhardosG wrote: Hi , on my gentoo-Laptopwith AMD - K8 the network is NOT running : ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 up Disabling IRQ #5 Why ? Yea gods, not another one. Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:55:51 +0100, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 January 2010 05:35:39 Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:23 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:55:47 +0100, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote: Hello James, That is my goal at the future. Let it be each day more integrated with emerge and its tools. By now, I just want to see if gentoo community has interest in my idea before search for some place to host it

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox not starting after login with SLIM

2010-01-10 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:42:15 +0100, Marco wrote: Hi, I updated my system and beside others, Xorg got updated. Now, when I log in with SLIM, fluxbox does not start anymore. I just get into an ugly x-session. In my ~/.xinitrc I have exec startfluxbox which always got me into fluxbox after log

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010-01-18 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt wrote: Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, jus

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:54 +0100, wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. When I am trying to do an emer

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:37:55 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > is pulling that in. I certainly do not hav