Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ibook PCMCIA

2008-03-12 Thread Alden Huang
Yeah, i kind of figured as much after a little while... /Am I missing something just obvious and stupid?/ Yes. Thanks for your help, though, nonetheless =) ~alden Michelle Darcy wrote: Alden Huang wrote: Hi there, I was just curious if anyone had experience using their ibook (dual-usb

[gentoo-user] Performance SRCU42X

2008-03-12 Thread Stefan Onken
Hello, I am using in a dual Xeon Server a SRCU42X SCSI RAID controller by Intel. Fully equipped with 12 SCSI drives. (two different RAID5 drives). But I am fighting with a very poor performance. When copying large files (2GB) from one directory to another I am getting 13MB/seconds. master ~

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread forgottenwizard
On 23:29 Tue 11 Mar , Logan McKenna wrote: I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance SRCU42X

2008-03-12 Thread Stefan Onken
some more debug infos: http://pastebin.com/m34c6386d -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch Renamer für KDE www.kbarcode.net: Die Barcode Solution für KDE -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think your /proc/bus/input/devices looks quite right - are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-12 Thread fire-eyes
Collin: it may not be a 5-second rule. It may just be cutting it off after a certain amount of traffic has passed based on the protocol/port used. But I'm just speculating. Let's hear what fire-eyes has to say. -- - Mark Shields I don't have the pcap file yet ;) Not much I can do. --

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread Dale
forgottenwizard wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup (these will be archived by, probably, dar or tar later on), and was wondering if someone knew what I could strip out. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: There should be gentoo-chat list There is one. We call it gentoo-user. It's a rite-of-passage thing. When you figure out the *real* purpose of gentoo-user, then we let you into the inner

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 04:12 -0500, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. brag I just installed Gentoo on a quad-core dual-cpu Xeon E5420 (2.50GHz). 8Gb RAM, 800Gb raid. It's not mine -

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: I have 3.5 as monolithic and 4.0 meta. What concerns me is that adding xcomposite will not re-emerge anything from 4.0 - and there is where I need/want it. OK, I see what you mean. Try this hacked-together list instead: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-12 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Thank you Neil, Markus, I really forgot to tell you, I need analog tuner. Here I have cable tv with analog channels. I check the mentioned cards. Thank you, István -- BSA. Mert megérdemlitek. Open Source. Mert megérdemlem. -- BSA. They value it. Open Source. The value. It. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what is a normal rsync?

2008-03-12 Thread tecnic5
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado por: news [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2008 04:33 Por favor, responda a gentoo-user Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: Asunto: [gentoo-user] Re: what is a normal rsync? On 2008-03-12, Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Blåbäck
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Pongracz Istvan wrote: I really forgot to tell you, I need analog tuner. Here I have cable tv with analog channels. I check the mentioned cards. Both cards that Neil and I mentioned are digital tuners and will therefore not be of any use for your requirements. Regards mks --

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers == Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-12 Thread Patric
andrea wrote: ... The X session loads smooth with no errors and no warnings but after X is loaded there is no way to come back to the framebuffer console (pressing CTRL+ALT+F* or closing the session). I get an almost white screen with some distorsion. If I come back pressing CTRL+ALT+F7 I see

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Gustavo Campos
This should be a nice start: [EMAIL PROTECTED] equery h -p xcomposite [ Searching for USE flag xcomposite in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [ ] kde-base/kwin-3.5.8 (3.5) [-P-] [ ~] kde-base/kwin-3.5.9 (3.5) [-P-] [M~] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine

2008-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Hi all: I trying to emerge world and just got this error message with only 3 programs left to emerge. It is: * Messages for package app-emulation/wine-0.9.57: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2111407.html -- Alan McKinnon alan

[gentoo-user] emerge world problem

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
Hello all: I have been trying to emerge world and the last 3 times I've been getting this error message when Epiphany is in the emerge world list. The errror from the out put is: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/www-client/epiphany-2.20.3

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: I have 3.5 as monolithic and 4.0 meta. What concerns me is that adding xcomposite will not re-emerge anything from 4.0 - and there is where I need/want it. OK, I see what you mean. Try this

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world problem

2008-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Hello all: I have been trying to emerge world and the last 3 times I've been getting this error message when Epiphany is in the emerge world list. The errror from the out put is: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[2]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Iain, on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:53:40PM +0930, you wrote: brag I just installed Gentoo on a quad-core dual-cpu Xeon E5420 (2.50GHz). 8Gb RAM, 800Gb raid. It's not mine - I've only convinced the sysadmin to let me play until it needs to be used for something real (what a waste to have

Re: [gentoo-user] no dma on parallel port

2008-03-12 Thread David W Noon
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], luis jure wrote: [snip] i activated ECP on the bios, the address of the port is 378, irq 7 and dma 3. but dma is not activated when booting: Did you also enable IEEE-1284 transfer modes in your kernel configuration? -- Regards Dave [RLU#314465]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short version: kdelibs krunner kwin libtaskmanager plasma Actually I did that meanwhile. Unfortunately, it doesn't help insofar as the whole session crashes the moment I switch on Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] no dma on parallel port

2008-03-12 Thread luis jure
El Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:53:53 + David W Noon [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Did you also enable IEEE-1284 transfer modes in your kernel configuration? no, i hadn't... that was it, i recompiled the kernel with that option and dma is activated. thanks a lot, i really googled for _days_ without

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short version: kdelibs krunner kwin libtaskmanager plasma Actually I did that meanwhile. Unfortunately, it doesn't help insofar

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Put this in

[gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I guess my problem is this: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. I got an X driver for it from www.openchrome.org which doesn't seem to work properly with my IGP version of the chipset. :-( Which version of the driver are you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. Aaahh. Say no more. I can get you good deals on Dell kit. Interested? :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed. How would I do that? Put

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I guess my problem is this: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. I got an X driver for it from www.openchrome.org which doesn't seem to work properly with my IGP version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. Aaahh. Say no more. I can get you good deals on Dell kit. Interested? What do you mean by Dell kit? A whole rig? A DIY kit where I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: Put this in /etc/portage/package.use: sys-apps/man-pages -nls Does this work for other packages? For example, I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: I'd like to set LINGUAS=de for almost every package. But for the sys-apps/man-pages package, I'd like LINGUAS not to be set, so that I don't get the german man pages installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Which version of the driver are you using? I have an IGP chipset and use x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.901 from the Sabayon overlay. I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from openchrome.org. I can't see openchrome

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Which version of the driver are you using? I have an IGP chipset and use x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.901 from the Sabayon overlay. I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Iain and Johan, On 3/12/08, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad? Otherwise I'm out of ideas, sorry... I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I waited till this moment. I can report a similar problem on my laptop. The symptoms are pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LINGUAS seperately for some packages

2008-03-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 schrieb Henry Gebhardt: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dirk Heinrichs squawked: Put this in /etc/portage/package.use: sys-apps/man-pages -nls Does this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from openchrome.org. I can't see openchrome in portage.http://www.tectonic.co.za/http://www.tectonic.co.za/ Go to x11-drivers/xf86-video-via. Look into the ebuilds. It actually

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from openchrome.org. I can't see openchrome in portage.http://www.tectonic.co.za/http://www.tectonic.co.za/ Go to

[gentoo-user] Re: pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-12 Thread James
Markus Schönhaber gentoo-user at schoenhaber.de writes: Both cards that Neil and I mentioned are digital tuners and will therefore not be of any use for your requirements. What application software do you guys run with these usb TV devices? Does either come with a remote control that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
James wrote: What application software do you guys run with these usb TV devices? I use mostly kaffeine. Does either come with a remote control that you have gotten to work with Gentoo (kde)? The Hauppauge did come with a remote control. I haven't even tried it though, since at the few

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:14:29 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: That looks like Unichrome, the package from which openchrome was forked to add 3D acceleration. The version number, 0.2.2, looks like openchrome to me. Openchrome didn't have versioned releases until 0.2.900. everything was built from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:27:57 + (UTC), James wrote: What application software do you guys run with these usb TV devices? Kaffeine, mplayer and MythTV all worked for me. Does either come with a remote control that you have gotten to work with Gentoo (kde)? The Freecom stick came with a

[gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume

2008-03-12 Thread Matthias Langer
Since audacious-1.4* there seems to be something b0rked with the volume controls. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (there is a thread about this in users-de). In more detail: Adjusting the volume from within audacious works, usually with all files in the current playlist, if at least one

Re: [gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume

2008-03-12 Thread Roman Zilka
I ran into this problem at home. I can't get to that PC anytime soon, but I'll try my best at guessing as much detail as possible using another Gentoo box. 95% probability of correct info. -- a.) The versions and USE-Flags of audacious and audacious-plugins. audacious-1.4.5,

Re: [gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume

2008-03-12 Thread Matthias Langer
ALSA. Using the default, in-kernel driver. The soundcard is some ATI IXP chipset-based onboard thing (listed as ATI in lspci as well IIRC). Thanks for your information: That reminds me... I should probably also add e.) your soundcard + driver inforamtion I'm using Intel Corporation 82801I

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-12 Thread Danis Petkakis
any ideas on what might have been wrong?? thanks in advance... On 07/03/2008, Danis Petkakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well revdep-rebuild -p gives no errors...i still reemerged krusader with the useflag debug and when i run it from konsole it gives the following output jrn23@ ~ krusader

[gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

2008-03-12 Thread b.n.
Hi, After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message: /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem is, my keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] partition needs to be fsckd, keyboard locked

2008-03-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Perhaps try an external keyboard? Hi, After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message: /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: Hi all: I trying to emerge world and just got this error message with only 3 programs left to emerge. It is: * Messages for package app-emulation/wine-0.9.57:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:07:11 -0400, Robert Stockdale IV wrote: [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 USE=fortran gcj gtk mudflap* nls (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -d -doc (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi% (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:08:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So please, think twice before hitting that reply button. Whoops, too late :) You have street cred. We'll forgive you. But only this time. Next

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread forgottenwizard
On 11:18 Thu 13 Mar , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all over the place. Things I would lose if I backed them up. Doing a prior backup, some files in