Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:35:00 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: But I won't know if mythbackend is actually working correctly unless I can check it (with mythfrontend, which of course isn't working.) Please help! I've no ideas on the crash,except for increasing the verbosity of the logging, but

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-12 Thread Jacques Montier
Mike Kazantsev a gentiment tapote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my mouse keyboard without losing usage: previously, you had to restart X to get them back.

[gentoo-user] VLC emerge Fails

2009-04-12 Thread Strake
I was running happily with VLC 0.9.7 until I discovered that I had built it without a52 support, which was required to view some file. I promptly changed the appropriate USE flag and re-emerged. However, the emerge now fails with the uninformative die message econf failed. This is the section of

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC emerge Fails

2009-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 April 2009, Strake wrote: I was running happily with VLC 0.9.7 until I discovered that I had built it without a52 support, which was required to view some file. I promptly changed the appropriate USE flag and re-emerged. However, the emerge now fails with the uninformative die

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:43:46 -0700 Nick Fortino nfort...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xandros, EEE which partition to chroot

2009-04-12 Thread maxim wexler
There isn't room to install Gentoo alongside Xandros on a 4GB Eee. Either install Gentoo to an SD card for now or bite the bullet and wipe Xandros before installation. I was hoping to use your suggestion(unless I misunderstood): Boot with eeexubuntu from a USB and use its tools to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
090412 walt wrote: Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? lshal is telling you that your nvidia hardware is recognized, but doesn't tell you that the hardware is being used by X. The best

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC emerge Fails

2009-04-12 Thread Strake
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: you have to install mesa. Perfect! It worked. Thank you! -- MFD

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread walt
Philip Webb wrote: 090411 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Denis wrote: I updated the xorg-server from 1.3.x to 1.5.3 my X wouldn't launch until I commented 'freetype' or 'vga' in xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: Mike Kazantsev a gentiment tapote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my

[gentoo-user] Where to put own keyboard variants

2009-04-12 Thread Sebastian Dörner
Hi, some time ago I created a variant for the us xkb-layout by adding partial alphanumeric_keys xkb_symbols my_variant { include latin //my changes here }; to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. That worked pretty well but during the recent xorg-update, the file was overridden. Luckily I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread John P. Burkett
Philip Webb wrote: For the record, in case anyone else runs into this, following the Gentoo Upgrade Guild, I chose course (2) to deal with HAL, ie I compiled 'USE=-hal emerge xorg-server'. I encountered 3 problems. (1) xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 failed to compile with a message implying

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread walt
Philip Webb wrote: 090412 walt wrote: Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? lshal is telling you that your nvidia hardware is recognized, but doesn't tell you that the hardware is being used

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 09:20 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:35:00 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: But I won't know if mythbackend is actually working correctly unless I can check it (with mythfrontend, which of course isn't working.) Please help! I've no ideas on the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:14:55 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: Mike Kazantsev a gentiment tapote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: After

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? If the nvidia driver has a man page, try to find: Option NoLogo boolean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:57:17 -0700, walt wrote: In that case I have no idea why the splashscreen doesn't show. Do you have this line in xorg.conf? Option NoLogo true -- Neil Bothwick Sacred cows make great hamburgers. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:00:04 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: But I won't know if mythbackend is actually working correctly unless I can check it (with mythfrontend, which of course isn't working.) Please help! I've no ideas on the crash,except for increasing the verbosity of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 18:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:00:04 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: But I won't know if mythbackend is actually working correctly unless I can check it (with mythfrontend, which of course isn't working.) Please help! I've no

Mythweb [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
Now, instead of oscure settings, I get no settings. From the elog info at the end of my mythweb emerge: = POST-INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS =

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. Yes

[gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.26-r4 protected: none omitted: 2.6.25-r8 2.6.27-r10 dragonfly ~ # uname -a Linux dragonfly 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.26-r4 protected: none omitted: 2.6.25-r8 2.6.27-r10 dragonfly ~ # uname -a Linux dragonfly

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Jacques Montier
Dale a gentiment tapote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.26-r4 protected: none omitted: 2.6.25-r8 2.6.27-r10 dragonfly ~ # uname

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, it's already emerged but I suppose I could add the specific version to the world file and that would protect it also. Thanks, Mark On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:46:50 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there any way I can get mythfrontend to tell me why it's segfaulting? Have you tried turning up the verbosity? -- Neil Bothwick Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Joseph
On 04/12/09 14:14, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.26-r4 protected: none omitted: 2.6.25-r8 2.6.27-r10 dragonfly ~ # uname -a

Re: Mythweb [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults]

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:56:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't even know what address to go to to access mythweb... Do you have the vhosts USE flag set? If not, it's probably http://localhost/mythtweb/ -- Neil Bothwick Old programmers never die; they just branch to a new address.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xandros, EEE which partition to chroot

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:49:46 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: I was hoping to use your suggestion(unless I misunderstood): Boot with eeexubuntu from a USB and use its tools to install gentoo on the SSHD. That's not what I did, I installed eeexubuntu then installed Gentoo while running that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2009 11:26:11 Mike Kazantsev wrote: If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Is this for ATI only? On my box I get a complaint about libGL being too old. Actually, it's absent altogether. I have nvidia. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Dale a gentiment tapote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel. sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.26-r4 protected: none omitted:

Re: Mythweb [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:56:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't even know what address to go to to access mythweb... Do you have the vhosts USE flag set? If not, it's probably http://localhost/mythtweb/ That location just

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to put own keyboard variants

2009-04-12 Thread walt
Sebastian Dörner wrote: Hi, some time ago I created a variant for the us xkb-layout by adding partial alphanumeric_keys xkb_symbols my_variant { include latin //my changes here }; to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us... Are you saying you edited that file by hand? If so, why not just rename

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: Dale a gentiment tapote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running kernel.  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources    

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jacques Montier wrote: Dale a gentiment tapote: Mark Knecht wrote: A problem I often have after a big update is emerge -p --depclean tells me it is going to remove my running

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:30 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:46:50 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there any way I can get mythfrontend to tell me why it's segfaulting? Have you tried turning up the verbosity? mich...@camille ~ $ mythfrontend -v playback 2009-04-12

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 April 2009 21:31:42 Joseph wrote: I would like to protect the current kernel as well, will statement in make.conf works? CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/src/linux/* I've not test it yet. No, that will not work as no existing files are being overwritten. To ensure that a kernel sources are

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 10 April 2009 15:35:23 Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 12 April 2009 21:31:42 Joseph wrote: I would like to protect the current kernel as well, will statement in make.conf works? CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/src/linux/* I've not test it yet. No, that will not work as no existing files are being overwritten. To

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:51:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go through the install process, but just add it to world. That does the opposite of what you want, reinstalls but doesn't add it to world. But you knew you meant to

Re: Mythweb [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults]

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:17:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Do you have the vhosts USE flag set? If not, it's probably http://localhost/mythtweb/ That location just gives me a directory listing... Of the mythweb files? If so, just click the index file. -- Neil Bothwick Weird

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: This doesn't tell me anything as far as I can see. Is there another way to turn up verbosity? mythfrontend -v help -- Neil Bothwick Are you sure this isn't the time for a colorful metaphor? signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 April 2009 00:12:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:51:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go through the install process, but just add it to world. That does the opposite of what you want,

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 17:11 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go through the install process, but just add it to world. Or just edit the world file by hand. You sure about the -1 option? I thought

[gentoo-user] Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
Hi. According to discussion on gentoo-dev http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_50182554f851bedb82f8a349fbc90352.xml it seems the only reasons for -Wl,--hash-style=gnu not being default (yet) are these headaches for the developers: 1) Apparently it does not work on mips 2) Apparently it needs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 12 April 2009 03:55:33 Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), Which package did you emerge to get lshal? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 13 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 15:35:23 Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of

Re: [gentoo-user] protect running kernel fomr depclean?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 00:12:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:51:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go through the install process, but just add it to world. That does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 12 April 2009 03:55:33 Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), Which package did you emerge to get lshal? Drum roll please. r...@smoker / # equery belongs lshal [ Searching for file(s) lshal in *... ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: This doesn't tell me anything as far as I can see.  Is there another way to turn up verbosity? mythfrontend -v help -- Neil Bothwick Are you sure this

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP The big change here today, other than the updates, was to rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old and reboot to try out lett hald set up the video stuff. I'm suspecting that may be the culprit? - Mark Bingo. I rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:45:57 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: This doesn't tell me anything as far as I can see.  Is there another way to turn

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/04/09 John P. Burkett said: Thank you, Philip. Your suggestions worked perfectly for me on an amd64 machine. And for me, I had the exact same problem. I'm not using HAL, and the x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 had to be rebuilt. This was not detected automatically. Thank you! Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: And for me, I had the exact same problem. I'm not using HAL, and the x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 had to be rebuilt. This was not detected automatically. And, I missed the ebuild note to rebuild drivers. I did have to comment out the same line in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:26:19 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 11 April 2009 11:26:11 Mike Kazantsev wrote: If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Is this for ATI only? On my box I get a complaint about libGL being too old. Actually, it's absent altogether. I have

Re: Mythweb [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 23:14 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:17:02 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Do you have the vhosts USE flag set? If not, it's probably http://localhost/mythtweb/ That location just gives me a directory listing... Of the mythweb

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 23:16 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:06 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: This doesn't tell me anything as far as I can see. Is there another way to turn up verbosity? mythfrontend -v help mich...@camille ~ $ mythfrontend -v most 2009-04-12

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The big change here today, other than the updates, was to rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old and reboot to try out lett hald set up the video stuff. I'm suspecting that may be the culprit? - Mark I don't even seem to have an

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: And for me, I had the exact same problem. I'm not using HAL, and the x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 had to be rebuilt. This was not detected automatically. And, I missed the ebuild note to rebuild drivers. I did have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread fei huang
I've got freetype warning as well, but not preventing the start of X. nvidia should be the name of your driver, and there should be a NoLogo line in the xorg.conf to switch on/off splash

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The big change here today, other than the updates, was to rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old and reboot to try out lett hald set up the video stuff. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
090412 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:57:17 -0700, walt wrote: In that case I have no idea why the splashscreen doesn't show. Do you have this line in xorg.conf? Option NoLogo true No. Any other suggestions ? --