[gentoo-user] Useflags EXIM

2007-06-03 Thread Stefan Onken
Hello, anyone able to give me a detailled discription of exim ? [ebuild N] mail-mta/exim-4.67 USE=mailwrapper mysql pam perl ssl tcpd -X -dnsdb -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -exiscan -exiscan-acl -gnutls -ipv6 -ldap -lmtp -mbox -mbx -nis -postgres -radius -sasl -spf -sqlite -srs -syslog

Re: [gentoo-user] Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-03 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 21:53 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:19:19 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, starting some time ago, videos that I want to play with xine (or similar viewers) do not show anymore. In xine the screen stays blue and I just hear

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
* Jeff Horelick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux is] writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. There is the Laptop-Mode for that. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help

[gentoo-user] Error compiling x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8-r1.

2007-06-03 Thread nikhilnadig
Hello, I am a newbie to gentoo and while compiling xorg-x11 i got the following error : Unpacking source... Unpacking xkeyboard-config-0.8.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8-r1/work * Applying add_missing_lsgt.patch ... [ ok ] Source unpacked. Compiling source

Re: [gentoo-user] Useflags EXIM

2007-06-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 June 2007, Stefan Onken wrote: Hello, anyone able to give me a detailled discription of exim ? http://www.exim.org Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-03 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: you do have switched the phone to modem mode? On the Razr it's called 'tty' and yes, I'm using that setting I'm not sure that and the aforementioned AT command sting is what is needed for a usb connected device?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007, James wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: you do have switched the phone to modem mode? On the Razr it's called 'tty' and yes, I'm using that setting I'm not sure that and the aforementioned AT command sting is what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:55:29 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 21:53 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:19:19 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, starting some time ago, videos that I want to play with xine (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 20:19:12 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, gentoo has a doc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 That gives the best explanation. Now dmesg | grep -i vesa concludes with: ... vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf000,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:06 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick:

Re: [gentoo-user] Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-03 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 17:57 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:55:29 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 21:53 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:19:19 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
I've known that this report exists but have newer actually seen it myself. I'm still a bit reluctant because I don't suspect that HDDs in Google's server farm spind down as often as mine would. Well, I'll just close my eyes and hope for the best when I hear my darlings shutting down. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:19 schrieb Elias Probst: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works

Re: [gentoo-user] Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:43:08 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ems you did not look correctly, both have -xinerama useflags. I see no difference. And I did a complete emerge -e xine-lib so everything it depends on should be fine, right? Christian Yes, sorry. The '-' was on the

[gentoo-user] VBE BIOS is not present was framebuffer question

2007-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, My framebuffer seems to only have one mode no matter what resolution or frequency it's told to use. dmesg indicates I'm using VBE version:2.0. Pretty sure there is some sort of framebuffer running cause the screen wakes up slowly. But I can't find out the mode it is using. I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:37:19 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:06 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:46:15 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:19 schrieb Elias Probst: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
Thke vesafb driver is built into the kernel, right? Right. I see the updated version from /proc/cmdline ? root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:mtrr3,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ have change these back and forth

Re: [gentoo-user] Videos not playing anymore

2007-06-03 Thread Christian Herzyk
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:52 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:43:08 +0200 Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ems you did not look correctly, both have -xinerama useflags. I see no difference. And I did a complete emerge -e xine-lib so everything it depends on should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon trouble

2007-06-03 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Friday 01 June 2007, Mick wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 20:09, Alex Schuster wrote: It is a ATI Radeon 9250 (128 MB-AGP, 200/240 MHz). I added fglrx and radeon to my VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, now it is VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx radeon nvidia nv vesa vga fbdev. X was updated with emerge -uN

[gentoo-user] Gentoo update

2007-06-03 Thread Benjamin Graf
Hi, I would like to know if there is a danger if I use a program during its updating (when I run emerge -uD world for example). Thanks ! Benjamin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo update

2007-06-03 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 08:59:53PM +0200, Benjamin Graf wrote: I would like to know if there is a danger if I use a program during its updating (when I run emerge -uD world for example). Theoretically, there could be (depends on the software) - some of its files could disappear, but

[gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread John covici
. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/gnome-extra:yelp-2.18.1:20070603-193318.log'. Any assistance would be appreciated. My emerge --info is below. cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Checksum index is up-to-date ... Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo update

2007-06-03 Thread Benjamin Graf
so if the only danger is a crash, that's ok ! there is not really a danger for the system. Thanks ! Benjamin 2007/6/3, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 08:59:53PM +0200, Benjamin Graf wrote: I would like to know if there is a danger if I use a program

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:38:07 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. While doing an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world I have run into a problem compiling yelp: Here is the output. Script started on Sun Jun 3 15:32:23 2007 These are the packages that would be

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Renat Golubchyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:33 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:38:07 -0400 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have been using emacs-22 for a while (previously as emacs-cvs and lately as ~x86 emacs). I recently added the emacs use flag among other changes and was surprised by the following output, specifically the dependency that gtk-doc has on virtual/emacs-21. I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 04 June 2007 01:31:56 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the dependency on virtual/emacs. The specific RDEPEND line is emacs? ( virtual/emacs ) But where is does the -21 come from? # emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree --color=n gimp [SNIP]

[gentoo-user] Cannot get Powernow/frequency scaling to work

2007-06-03 Thread Jamie
I have recompiled my kernel as per the Powernow HOWTO at www.gentoo-wiki.com but cannot seem to get any Powernow or frequency scaling support. A dmesg | grep powernow returns nothing , it is enabled in the BIOS of the machine and works under Windows but will not work in Gentoo. I am running the an

[gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
have you tried with just '1280x1024' ? No help slaps his forhead Of course, when the LiveCD boots the framebuffer comes up in a usable configuration. So I boot the CD and chroot. In chroot #fbset -s is completely different than in regular mode. Here's #fbset -s after the PC boots as usual:

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just in case your X-Server is still responding AT ALL you can always try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill it. This will work up to a certain level of hanging. Then simply restart it by typing startx. Otherwise ssh into your

RE: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:17 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --

RE: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

2007-06-03 Thread Richard Marz
halt -dp worked for me...never tried it before. Now, I did do a couple of things. I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.20r8 and set the acpi=force kernel parameter. I don't know whether the acpi=force paramenter fixed the problem. I did see the gentoo shutdown.sh script (which you can view at the bottom of

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Ken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread deface
' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Stratos Psomadakis

[gentoo-user] Re: Razr(Alltel) looking for an interface program

2007-06-03 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Any documents I can read about KmobileTools? there isn't much - but I could successfully get stuff, like sms or phone numbers from my Razr v3i with kmobiletools, the tty setting in the phone and the acm support in the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:54:42 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 01:31:56 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the dependency on virtual/emacs. The specific RDEPEND line is emacs? ( virtual/emacs ) But where is does the -21 come from?

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always snip However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Or,

RE: [gentoo-user] Japanese Support

2007-06-03 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: PaulNM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 1:41 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Japanese Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a howto for Japanese support in Gentoo? How about

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking

[gentoo-user] Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

2007-06-03 Thread James
Hello, ON an amd64 I cannot get this DVD RW dual layer drive to work. I'm just trying to get movies to play with Kaffeine or any of the DVD movie player softwares available, then I'll work my way to to burning CDs or DVD, hopefully. Kaffeine gives this error message The source can't be read.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because

[gentoo-user] Gentoo installation failed

2007-06-03 Thread sanjaya athukorala
hi all, I encounter following error while installing Gentoo 2007.0 DVD (x86) on my laptop; laptop configuration: Intel Core 2duo T7600 Processr 512 RAM GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:15 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4 GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - ERROR! : Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation failed

2007-06-03 Thread deface
Here's your Help: 1. Do not use Gentoo Installer. Use CLI deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 10:57 PM, sanjaya athukorala wrote: hi all, I encounter following error while installing Gentoo 2007.0 DVD (x86) on my laptop; laptop configuration: Intel Core 2duo T7600 Processr 512 RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 schrieb John covici: checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch

Re: [gentoo-user] Plextor SATA DVD RW not working

2007-06-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:06:34AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: Kaffeine gives this error message The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) Some simple questions: what does 'ls -l