Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords

2006-11-28 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi! thanks to all for your replies (and sorry for breaking threat, but I have you replies in my laptop...). I finally did an emerge -DNvp. I'm gonna look for set -o noclobber option. Cheers and thanks again. -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Wiggum: Dispara a las ruedas Lou. Lou: eee,

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade issues

2006-11-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, My turn to upgrade today to udev-103 and noticed the following symptoms: 1. My WiFi USB adaptor is no-longer detected at boot: :( = Loading module: rt2500usb - CVS (N/A) by http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com.

[gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread pat
Hi, I need to change X.org resolution of running X.org session. Please, could someone point mo how to do it ??? I expect I have to set dirrerent resolutions to the xorg.conf and then use magic key sequence to do this ... am I correct. I need it for presentation. Thanks to all. Pat --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:46:52 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: /etc/init.d/coldplug has to be removed by hand, unfortunatly :-( Unless you have /etc/init.d in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. This makes sense, if you are not in the habit of modifying the init scripts, as it avoids all the problems caused by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New user: all good.

2006-11-28 Thread b.n.
Tek Project ha scritto: Thanks again for your help, guys: Just highlight the text you want to copy, then click the middle mouse button in the window you want to paste. Unix-style copy-and-paste :) Aha! Used to know that. Thanks. As it is written, it is probably a faulty hardware problem. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
pat wrote: Hi, I need to change X.org resolution of running X.org session. Please, could someone point mo how to do it ??? I expect I have to set dirrerent resolutions to the xorg.conf and then use magic key sequence to do this ... am I correct. I need it for presentation. Thanks to all.

[gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely from my laptop? Can I define in K3B my desktop's DVD drive(s)? How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/28/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pat wrote: Hi, I need to change X.org resolution of running X.org session. Please, could someone point mo how to do it ??? I expect I have to set dirrerent resolutions to the xorg.conf and then use magic key sequence to do this ... am I correct. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:50, Mick wrote: Hi All, My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely from my laptop? Can I

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-28 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za writes: You might want to emerge module-rebuild to help with such things in future. It tracks which ebuilds install kenrel modules that need to be rebuilt, and rebuilds them all with one command. So you still have to remember to run it after a

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Montag, 27. November 2006 22:55 schrieb Dave Jones: Yesterday I upgraded udev to 103, but have hit some problems with alsa configuration of multiple sound cards. I have an 'on board' Intel 8x0 sound card which I use for VoIP telephony, and a PCI Creative Audigy which I use to play

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:26, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za writes: You might want to emerge module-rebuild to help with such things in future. It tracks which ebuilds install kenrel modules that need to be rebuilt, and rebuilds them all with one command. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:26, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za writes: You might want to emerge module-rebuild to help with such things in future. It tracks which ebuilds install kenrel modules that need to be rebuilt, and rebuilds them all with one command. So

[gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Marco Fabbri
Hi there. I gona install my UPS software on the gentoo box. The company does only provide debian or rpm packages. Can I install it somehow? Any hint or link? Cheers in advance. -- Marco

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:28:11 +0100 Marco Fabbri wrote: Hi there. I gona install my UPS software on the gentoo box. The company does only provide debian or rpm packages. Can I install it somehow? Any hint or link? I'd suggest 2 steps: app-arch/rpm2targz Convert a .rpm file to a .tar.gz

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:28, Marco Fabbri wrote: Hi there. I gona install my UPS software on the gentoo box. The company does only provide debian or rpm packages. Can I install it somehow? Any hint or link? I'd create an ebuild for it...

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:50, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I'd create an ebuild for it... http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-so urces/index.html http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/deb-so urces/index.html Do the above procedures

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
Arnau Bria wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:28:11 +0100 Marco Fabbri wrote: Hi there. I gona install my UPS software on the gentoo box. The company does only provide debian or rpm packages. Can I install it somehow? Any hint or link? I'd suggest 2 steps: app-arch/rpm2targz

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:56, Dale wrote: I have a similar issue. I have a CyberPower UPS and should be using powstatd but it is not in portage and I have no clue how to get it there and the person who wrote powstatd doesn't know either. I have apcups installed but it does not work

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:23, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:50, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I'd create an ebuild for it... http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:56, Dale wrote: I have a similar issue. I have a CyberPower UPS and should be using powstatd but it is not in portage and I have no clue how to get it there and the person who wrote powstatd doesn't know either. I have apcups

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread pat
Thanks a lot !!! THAT'S IT !!! Pat On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:02:17 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote On 11/28/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pat wrote: Hi, I need to change X.org resolution of running X.org session. Please, could someone point mo how to do it ??? I expect I have

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread karlos
I get: Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. what is necessesary in config to get this extension working? I have libXrandr / randrproto / xrandr installed. greets, K On 11/28/06, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot !!! THAT'S IT !!! Pat On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:02:17

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/06, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get: Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. what is necessesary in config to get this extension working? I have libXrandr / randrproto / xrandr installed. It is a built-in extension (you should see (II) Initializing built-in extension

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-28 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mick wrote: Hi All, My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely from my laptop? Can I define in K3B my desktop's DVD drive(s)?

[gentoo-user] kernel config sharing

2006-11-28 Thread pat
Hi all, I'm currently using suspend2-sources-2.6.16-r8 and I want to switch to xen-sources-2.6.16.28 kernel. What I want is to take kernel config from suspend2 and use it with xen kernel. How have I to do that when using genkernel for the kernel compilation/generation ??? Thanks a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-28 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za writes: But does it detect kernel changes and pop itself into the list when one runs some like 'emerge -uDp ' ??? I've never looked into the ebuilds to see how they manage it, but the on-screen output shows lines saying things like registering

Re: [gentoo-user] deb or RPM on Gentoo

2006-11-28 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: You didn't bother to read the links, huh? Yes, it can work with binaries. Only the deb page mentions binaries. In the rpm page, the only example uses a src.rpm. Actually, I could not find any

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config sharing

2006-11-28 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:41, pat wrote: I'm currently using suspend2-sources-2.6.16-r8 and I want to switch to xen-sources-2.6.16.28 kernel. What I want is to take kernel config from suspend2 and use it with xen kernel. How have I to do that when using genkernel for the kernel

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread krgn
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/28/06, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get: Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. what is necessesary in config to get this extension working? I have libXrandr / randrproto / xrandr installed. It is a built-in extension (you should see (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [99% SOLVED]

2006-11-28 Thread Sergio Polini
Richard Fish: Ok, two things to try. First, remove the 192.168.2.1 nameserver from resolve.conf. That nameserver may be broken and unable to resolve names on the internet. This should help the ping www.google.com case. Yes, I've already said that, but you are great! ;-) I read your

[gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Probably, it is known problem. Any massive HDD operations, such a generation of DVD structure (or even copying files from DVD to HDD - case, when stream speed is limited by DVD-drive), make desktop enviroment (KDE in my case) noticeably clumsy. This takes place also when an operation is initiated

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem [solved]

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Jones
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote on 28/11/06 15:44: Yesterday I upgraded udev to 103, but have hit some problems with alsa configuration of multiple sound cards. Even worse is that udev seems to discover the sound cards in the reverse order to coldplug. My Audigy card becomes /dev/dsp1 and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a remote DVD writer

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Mick wrote: Hi All, My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely from my laptop? Can I define in K3B my desktop's DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Probably, it is known problem. Any massive HDD operations, such a generation of DVD structure (or even copying files from DVD to HDD - case, when stream speed is limited by DVD-drive), make desktop enviroment (KDE in my case) noticeably clumsy. This takes place also

[gentoo-user] [OT] Power supply with no -5v rail?

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
Hi, I just bought a new power supply. This is what I got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159040 I notice that this thing has no -5 volt rail on it. Is this normal now? I looked at my old one and it has a -5 volt rail. I think it only hooks to the mobo connector. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Power supply with no -5v rail?

2006-11-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:18, Dale wrote: Hi, I just bought a new power supply. This is what I got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159040 I notice that this thing has no -5 volt rail on it. Is this normal now? yes it is. -5V was only used by the isa slots.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:45, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness': I read somewhere that they are trying to 'nice' the drive usage like they do the CPU. That may help if you can find it and enable it. I think it is in some of the

[gentoo-user] Nagios emerge failure

2006-11-28 Thread David Corbin
Can someone help me around this problem emerging nagios-core? i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/CORE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with MythTV and LiveTV

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
I hope someone here can help me, or I might have to take drastic measures and upgrade to a version of MythTV not marked stable. I've googled but still found no solution. I'm running kernel 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 with mythtv-0.19_p10505 and this evening I upgraded my ivtv drivers to 0.8.1 (I just built

[gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

2006-11-28 Thread Shaw Vrana
Hello All, I just performed an emerge -Du world and found that the fonts in the few gtk apps that I use (gaim and wireshark) have now become quite ugly. I followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts to beautify a while back and the changes I made there have remained intact

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Power supply with no -5v rail?

2006-11-28 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:18, Dale wrote: Hi, I just bought a new power supply. This is what I got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159040 I notice that this thing has no -5 volt rail on it. Is this normal now? yes it

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

2006-11-28 Thread Stroller
On 29 Nov 2006, at 05:13, Shaw Vrana wrote: ... In order to track down what caused the problem, and hopefully figure out how to fix this ugliness, I would like to get a list of the packages most recently emerged. `genlop -l` (from the package app-portage/genlop) Stroller. --

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread pat
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:18:37 +, krgn wrote Richard Fish wrote: On 11/28/06, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get: Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. what is necessesary in config to get this extension working? I have libXrandr / randrproto / xrandr installed.