Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-05 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:06:00PM -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the j option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle it automatically. -- Neil Bothwick The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:29:32 +0100, Mick wrote: But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the VB virtual hardware. Sure, but it's the same physical drive IDE controller, no? No. The gust OS sees only the virtual hardware presented by the VM. The VM software handles the

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 03:32:58 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: You might want to try this: echo EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-threads /etc/make.conf emerge -1 dev-python/pygtk That would enable it for all ebuilds. To do it foe one package you have two options. The temporary approach:

Re: [gentoo-user] xen+kvm+win2k problem

2008-05-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think officially Win2k is not supported by Xen. XP, 2003, etc. run fine. There are probably people out there running Win2k on Xen but I bet they have to do something wicked and I'm not aware of what it is. from what I've read in the net, it

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: The question is: should I use it at all (for any use, external HD or internal with operating system), or is it sufficient to let the fsck tool mark the bad sectors and just keep using it? badblocks mkfs. Maybe. And

[gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread econti
Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB Homepage: http://go-oo.org Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wang, Baojun
在 2008-05-05一的 11:35 +0200,econti写道: Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
080505 econti wrote: emerge -s openoffice * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB Homepage: http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread András Csányi
2008/5/5 econti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all [snip] Questions: 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? Hi! On my 2.5 AMD Athlon machine with 1,5 GRAM the compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Justin
econti schrieb: Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB Homepage: http://go-oo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
080505 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? More important would be to answer: How much disk space does it need? You should have ~6G available in your $PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Yes : on my 2007 machine the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 5. Mai 2008 schrieb ext econti: Questions: 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin The latter is pre-compiled, eventually using USE flags that don't match your settings, so you may not get what you want. 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, econti wrote: Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-05 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the j option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 May 2008, at 04:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... The question is: should I use it at all (for any use, external HD or internal with operating system), or is it sufficient to let the fsck tool mark the bad sectors and just keep using it? ... Here the cheapest 2.5 harddrive I can buy is

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 12:21:12 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:17:01 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle it automatically. You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for the info. It may only save one character when

[gentoo-user] New b43 driver can't find my AP

2008-05-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
Hi, After upgrading to the 2.6.24 kernel and switching from the bcm driver to the new b43 driver, I can no longer attach to my AP. If I downgrade to 2.6.23 it starts working again, so I'm confident that the hardware setup is all fine. Using the new driver, iwscan does not locate any APs

Re: [gentoo-user] New b43 driver can't find my AP

2008-05-05 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Mike Edenfield wrote: Hi, After upgrading to the 2.6.24 kernel and switching from the bcm driver to the new b43 driver, I can no longer attach to my AP. If I downgrade to 2.6.23 it starts working again, so I'm confident that the hardware setup is all fine. Using the new driver, iwscan does

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. I have to disagree. On my laptop Dell Inspiron 6400, Dual Core Pentium (T2130) 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Monday 05 May 2008, Wang, Baojun wrote: 在 2008-05-05一的 11:35 +0200,econti写道: Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:09 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told

Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-05 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:14 +0800, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old

[gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1;

[gentoo-user] aufs and gentoo-sources

2008-05-05 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I am looking for a way to make aufs work with current gentoo-sources. Unfortunately there is no ebuild available (or I didnt' find it). Trying the procedure described in the readme the kernel would fail to build. Should this work? Konstantin P.S.: I don't necessarily need aufs but an

[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get compiled, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] aufs and gentoo-sources

2008-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 May 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to make aufs work with current gentoo-sources. Unfortunately there is no ebuild available (or I didnt' find it). It's in the sunrise overlay: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix aufs * sys-fs/aufs [1] Available

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 May 2008, Francesco Talamona wrote: 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. ccache in make.conf is enabled and MAKEOPTS has a reasonable value,

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: wolf-di6400 0(0) 03:04 PM ~ # qlop -gH openoffice openoffice: Fri May 2 16:22:23 2008: 1 hour, 20 minutes, 38 seconds openoffice: Sat May 3 04:06:11 2008: 1 hour, 19 minutes, 12 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Justin
* app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 merge time: 1 hour, 15 minutes and 27 seconds. Sat Apr 26 11:55:21 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling it. ccache in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Wolf Canis
Mick wrote: You people don't know what pain means! :-)) -- [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0 Estimated update time: 5 minutes. -- [ebuild N] app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 Estimated update time: 23 hours,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 merge time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Justin
Willie Wong schrieb: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.4.0 merge time:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 May 2008, Willie Wong wrote: Since we've come this far, I really want to know what is your virtual p*n*s length: echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}'; df

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 May 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Monday 05 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: OOo has just got to be the most fscked-up ebuild I've ever seen. I think you are being unfair towards the gentoo developers. It isn't the ebuild but OOo's build system (and source). The gentoo devs just try

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21 11:18:22 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember

[gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light

2008-05-05 Thread paul
I am sure that this is all explained somewhere but I cannot find it easily. When running emerge -av gnome-light I get : [blocks B ] gnome-base/control-center-2.22 (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1) [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Elric Scott
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Justin wrote: * app-office/openoffice Mon Mar 10 18:35:42 2008 app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1 merge time: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Apr 21

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread deface
Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood writes: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: Since we've come this far, I really want to know what is your virtual p*n*s length: echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4/30 +;}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3/1024/3+}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light

2008-05-05 Thread Tim
paul wrote: I am sure that this is all explained somewhere but I cannot find it easily. When running emerge -av gnome-light I get : [blocks B ] gnome-base/control-center-2.22 (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1) [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: Robin Atwood writes: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light

2008-05-05 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:08:49PM +0100, paul wrote: [...] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked [...] Did you even read this? quote It is also possible that two packages that are yet to be installed are blocking each other. In this rare case, you should find

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk threading disabled at compile time

2008-05-05 Thread luis jure
El Mon, 5 May 2008 09:43:07 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The temporary approach: EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-threads emerge -1 dev-python/pygtk thanks neil and daniel for the tips (always learning something new...). unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. so i finally did emerge

[gentoo-user] epson printers using avasys drivers. anyone?

2008-05-05 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need a test report from folks running Gentoo (as I do). I was wondering if anyone had tried with any success whatever, the PIPS drivers from http://avasys.jp/hp/menu00900/hpg00859.htm ?? I've been trying (with no success excepting this

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a