Re: [gentoo-user] openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering what they are and which one I should be using. media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update!

[gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering what they are and which one I should be using. media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update!

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 February 2008 21:09:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:12:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oh wait, what year did you say it was again? MMIIX You bugger you. Now I have to dig back 25 years in memory to high school

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:37:23 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: emerge -C 'media-libs/openexr-1.5.0' emerge openexr Which will add openexr to your world file. Something you probably don't want to do. If openexr is being installed as a dependency of something else, then do emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:20:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots linux and linux as the default after booting windows, That would make installing new drivers in

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, | doubling the number of reboots needed :( Not really, you can always change the default option by using the cursor keys in the grub boot menu. - --

[gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu ? Would the compiler then

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:27:28 -0200, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, | doubling the number of reboots needed :( Not really, you can always change the default option by using the cursor keys in the grub boot menu. I

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Benedikt Morbach
Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. And by the way: Changing CHOST is not worth the trouble. Even if it would be possible in your case,

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Where do I find a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your

[gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread dell core2duo
Hi All, Each time i run emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. Is there any way i can avoid he same ? TIA, flukebox

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious little. You

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Graham Murray
Benedikt Morbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Though looking at /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. Cheers. It is attached. It's been around a while so I assume it still works. I put mine in the /root directory

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. Google knows where they are. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi All, Each time i run emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. Is there any way i can avoid he same ?

Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, W.Kenworthy wrote: I use openoffice on two systems and one has developed a dialog box that says /home/$[user]/slot:5500 is unavailable. Cancelling causes the requested document to open normally. This happened back a few weeks ago after some updates (but by the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Display card advice needed

2008-02-05 Thread Daniel
On February 4, 2008 10:40:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been given a superb Iiyama 24' Vision Master Pro display (considered too bulky for the office it was in). I have to buy a new graphics card able to plug it in. It must: - be able to display 2048x1536 at 87Hz - be able of 3d

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has never worked since.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the DiskSavers, along with

[gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses interface, but not pidgin. There is no pidgin binary! Have I missed out

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Greg Bowser
You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) --Greg On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:54:07 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, here's a terminal output : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ which pidgin /usr/bin/pidgin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix -I pidgin [I] net-im/pidgin Available versions: 2.2.1 (~)2.2.2 (~)2.3.1 {bonjour dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses networkmanager nls perl

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Andrey Falko
On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses interface, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Greg Bowser wrote: You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) Thanks Greg, I thought that it should be clever enough to enable gtk by default, just like gaim used to (I think). Remerging now . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Dave Jones wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i got it back from the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Dale wrote on 05/02/08 22:44: hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the parport flag. Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have missed the

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi All, Each time i run emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like gcc,glibc, because updating these packages

Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500

2008-02-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks for the hint. I had deleted my user gnome directories but not the oo ones so I did not consider that to be the problem. Clicking on the custom icons (i.e., using them) was enough to fix the it. Thanks, BillK On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:32 +, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008,

[gentoo-user] How to don't autoload a module

2008-02-05 Thread Elyahou ITTAH
What i can do so that the kernel module iwl3945 don't be autoload at the boot ? He is not on module.autoload.d/kernel ... I have many modules (Alsa,nvidia,uvcvideo) which are loaded automaticaly but i don't know why... I am interested to remove this autoload only for iwl3945 thx

Re: [gentoo-user] How to don't autoload a module

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Elyahou ITTAH wrote: What i can do so that the kernel module iwl3945 don't be autoload at the boot ? He is not on module.autoload.d/kernel ... I have many modules (Alsa,nvidia,uvcvideo) which are loaded automaticaly but i don't know why... I am interested to remove this autoload only for

Re: [gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Marc Redmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've collected a few ebuilds for freenet (encrypted p2p web) and now creating an own overlay for this. I don't know if it is the most recent version of freenet but you can find freenet-0.7_alpha_pre1104 in the sunrise overlay. Meanwhile I'm working

[gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm looking for an small gnome-panel mixer applet (alsamixergui is IMHO too inconvenient for just quick volume chaning ;-o) Maybe somebody has an suggestion ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and

[gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently developing an synthetic filesystem for audio mixer control. It does all the OS/driver specific stuff within the fileserver, so applications can acces the mixer settings in an completely platform agnostic and network transparent way:

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On Feb 5, 2008 11:40 PM, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for an small gnome-panel mixer applet (alsamixergui is IMHO too inconvenient for just quick volume chaning ;-o) Maybe somebody has an suggestion ? thx Have you tried using the mixer provided by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* AJ Spagnoletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried using the mixer provided by the gnome-applets package. It is a simple speaker that you can click that allows you to adjust the master volume with a simple slider. Took a hell long time for building ... the dependencies are insane ;-o

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Then find out why its not working - works perfectly on all the desktop systems I have. This is probably a sign that you have some deeper problems - tried revdep-rebuild recently? Its also sometimes necessary to rebuild gnome-panel at the same time as gnome-applets - its usually the batter-stat

[gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed increase but