[gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: exist a pager , independent and more usefull than the traditional f/bbpafger , is ipager... ...go here [http://www.useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html] Thanks... yes looks interesting.

[gentoo-user] VIM Undo Command

2008-12-02 Thread Supreme
I have a odd issue with vim. The undo last action command which is (u) does not work in vi. The undo all changes command (Shift+u) works just fine. Anyone ever run into this problem or know how I can fix this issue. This problem is related to all the user on the system not just one user. This is

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/2 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: May I ask why many people on MLs use to write links as footnotes instead that inside the mail text? I suspect it is some netiquette issue, but I can't find info on that and I find it mildly confusing. Because

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/2 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because http://some-vvverrryy-long-link/some-page.html

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:33:32 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: Not to me. I am accustomed to see links inside of text in webpages, so there is nothing strange in what you posted. I rarely see URLs inside the text of web pages, they are generally hyperlinked to a piece of the text. Email is more like

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 28 November 2008 21:31:51 Stroller wrote: NTFS *is* really bad in that regard. I've seen it HORRIBLY fragmented, and defragging it make a REMARKABLE difference. I remember also that when M$ introduced NTFS they made a big thing of not needing to defrag it. Only later, when others

Re: [gentoo-user]Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 13:03:11 ert256 wrote: Hello Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is what i get from emerge : [snip] No such file `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. Thank You for Your help ? Hi You could try adding

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
brullo nulla wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/2 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: May I ask why many people on MLs use to write links as footnotes instead that inside the mail text? I suspect it is some netiquette issue, but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Daniel Iliev schrieb: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:46:01 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? By not defragging it. I beg to defer. The simplest way

Re: [gentoo-user]Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
Uwe wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 13:15:08 Dale wrote: [snip] I can't find a man page for mirrorselect. Is there more documentation somewhere? Thanks Dale :-) :-) Well I found this one on gentoo-wiki.com http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mirrorselect It's probably

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/12/2 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: No, NTFS *is* really bad in that regard. I've seen it HORRIBLY fragmented, and defragging it make a REMARKABLE difference. At least the nice thing is that Defrag not only fixes you the problem, but also shows it before you run it. Stroller. I agree. I defrag my

[gentoo-user] Anyone managed to install Intel C++ 11 on Gentoo AMD64?

2008-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There's no ebuild for Intel C++ 11, so I'm trying to install using Intel's installation script. It barks that I don't have these: libstdc++.so.5 32-bit libstdc++ 32-bit libstdc++5 32-bit glibc 32-bit libgcc I have app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat installed though. Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/12/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dont want to install MTP firmware on my T60. Me neither ;-) I have solved my little problem with a tool called fatsort. Meimo, thanks for letting us know. This is a solution I was not aware of and it sounds great. Unfortunately there is no ebuild for fatsort

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 01 Dec 2008, Fernando Antunes wrote: 2008/12/1 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James, ooo 3 use extensions to install dictionaries. James

[gentoo-user] What is wrong with my nat table?

2008-12-02 Thread Shaochun Wang
Hi all: Today I found that there is a lot of unexpected staff in my iptables system when I executed the --list command as following: # iptables -t nat -L Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel Pielmeier ha scritto: Unfortunately there is no ebuild for fatsort [1] only a maintainer wanted bug [2]. There is even a python gui [3], but I don't know if there is really a need for a gui though. I think I will update the ebuild (which does not look that complicated and needs some

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread brullo nulla
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/2 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: May I ask why many people on MLs use to write links as footnotes instead that inside the mail text? I suspect it is some netiquette issue, but I can't find info on that and I find it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation [experiment]

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:11:58 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip-] for (( i=0 ; i=400 ; i++ )) do sync echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo -n try_no=$i /usr/bin/time -f \ command=%C|\ real_t=%e|\ kernel_t=%S|\ [-snip-] The results are ready. I'm just sending

Re: [gentoo-user]Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-02 Thread Uwe
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 13:15:08 Dale wrote: [snip] I can't find a man page for mirrorselect. Is there more documentation somewhere? Thanks Dale :-) :-) Well I found this one on gentoo-wiki.com http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mirrorselect It's probably more helpful if you use

[gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help I attach emerge --info output, this is my package.use entry for xorg-server: x11-base/xorg-server

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X Pay attention to what the xorg-server ebuild tells you. It even beeps like crazy to get your attention. It tells you exactly what to do if those drivers stop working.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Uwe
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 18:02:37 Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help I attach emerge --info output, this is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help I attach emerge --info output,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Dezember 2008, Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers didn't help I attach emerge --info output, this is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:14:27PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X Pay attention to what the xorg-server ebuild tells you. It even beeps like crazy to get your

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse keyboard broken after upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.2

2008-12-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:15:48PM +0100, Uwe wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 18:02:37 Erik Hahn wrote: I just upgraded xorg-server to 1.5.2 and ati-drivers tp 8.522-r2. Now keyboard and mouse don't work in X - gpm, qingy and virtual terminals work fine however. Rebuilding the drivers

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread brullo nulla
This reminds me of the text/html debate. If you put links in the body and some guru that has the answer doesn't like links in the body, they may not read your post and you could be left without a answer for a while longer. Or worse yet, if it is some software that is rarely used, they may

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-02 Thread Justin
Justin schrieb: Take a look into the INSTALL.txt. Is written there what to do and which deps are requiered. Additionally fill a ebuild request bug at b.g.o. Next saturday it is bugday, I will try to get time to solve it then. Here it is https://bugs.gentoo.org/249631 signature.asc

[gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Is it normal? I'm on ~amd64.

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-02 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin wrote: Justin schrieb: Take a look into the INSTALL.txt. Is written there what to do and which deps are requiered. Additionally fill a ebuild request bug at b.g.o. Next saturday it is bugday, I will try to get time to solve it then.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:10 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Is it normal? I'm on ~amd64. I don't know what is normal but my gnome-panel is using about 71MB virtual memory (16MB resident). Perhaps you've got a leaky panel applet?

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 23:05:13 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:10 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Is it normal? I'm on ~amd64. I don't know what is normal but my gnome-panel is using about 71MB virtual memory (16MB resident). Perhaps you've got a leaky panel applet?

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.12.2008 04:31: I have solved my little problem with a tool called fatsort. Just FYI, I have updated the ebuild in the bug tracker [1]. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170425 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Michele Schiavo
on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident.. Il giorno mar, 02/12/2008 alle 23.30 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko ha scritto: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 23:05:13 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:10 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Is it normal? I'm on ~amd64. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Dec 2008, at 11:33, brullo nulla wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/2 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: May I ask why many people on MLs use to write links as footnotes instead that inside the mail text? I suspect it is some netiquette

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Dale
brullo nulla wrote: I send text myself too usually (don't know when I'm using gmail from the web like now). However if I receive html mail, my mail client is set up to make it look like it's only text, so I don't really see the difference. Well apparently some people here use a client

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Dec 2008, at 12:25, Dale wrote: ... This reminds me of the text/html debate. If you put links in the body and some guru that has the answer doesn't like links in the body, they may not read your post and you could be left without a answer for a while longer. Or worse yet, if it is some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Dec 2008, at 13:13, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: ... My experience with NTFS is somewhat more balanced (maybe). In about 12 years I experienced one damaged NTFS instance. This was caused by a crash during an installation ... So my conclusion --- NTFS is not so easy to damage, but if you manage

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

2008-12-02 Thread b.n.
Stroller ha scritto: It's not merely aesthetic, because a URL as long as the one above may not be clickable in the mail client. TinyURL should alleviate this problem, as long as the sender's client doesn't break lines in some stupid place. Right. I'll use direct links inline when I'm

[gentoo-user] do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-02 Thread Du Zhongdong
Hi, all. I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok. Now I want to re-check my kernel config, #cd /usr/src/linux [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ make menuconfig *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the *** required header files. *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-02 Thread Douglas Anderson
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Du Zhongdong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all. I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok. Now I want to re-check my kernel config, #cd /usr/src/linux [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ make menuconfig *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or

[gentoo-user] Re: do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-02 Thread »Q«
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Du Zhongdong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok. Now I want to re-check my kernel config, #cd /usr/src/linux [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ make menuconfig *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the *** required

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-02 Thread Zhang Le
On 11:43 Wed 03 Dec , Du Zhongdong wrote: [Wed Dec 03, 11:40 AM] axdu@ linux$ sudo emerge ncurses-devel Calculating dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ncurses-devel. Generally speaking, there is no packages like 'foo-devel' in gentoo. And a little suggestion: try to

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:38 +0100, Michele Schiavo wrote: on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident.. Ok, here's is what I found. Both my 32-bit GNOME boxes show about 70-80MB VIRT for gnome-panel. My x64 box shows 303MB. Moreover, top shows the following top memory munchers:

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have the package ncurses-devel or something like that?

2008-12-02 Thread Du Zhongdong
Thanks, all I already have sys-libs/ncurses installed on my gentoo, and, the real problem is: the Linux kernel source-tree's owner is root, and I ran make menuconfig as my normal user. a silly mistake. thanks anyway On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Douglas Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On