[gentoo-user] Re: Enable scrolling on external USB IBM UltraNav keyboard

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Mazur
Hello, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com wrote: I have an external USB IBM ThinkPad UltraNav keyboard[1] attached to my laptop and I'd like to get scrolling to work. Currently to scroll I mouse over the scrollbar, click and move the pointer. I have looked at some

[gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event

2009-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi List! I could need some directions for the following situation: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. What would be the best way to do this automatially? I think udev is the way to go but how do I define the event?

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event

2009-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. Does this switch generate an ACPI event? -- Neil Bothwick You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication.

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event

2009-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. Does this switch generate an ACPI event? Unfortunately not. Nothing on dmesg,

[gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
... or is it for me only?

Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:56, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? it's down here too.

Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hey! On Thursday 07 May 2009 15:56:34 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... or is it for me only? For me, it is also down. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:01:52 +0200, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:56, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? it's down here too. same result here... -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE

Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread KH
Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: ... or is it for me only? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/packages.gentoo.org ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? It's not just you. In the meantime maybe you can use http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Newest

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-07 Thread james
Nitin Kanaskar nitinvk04 at gmail.com writes: I would definitely give this a thought - sounds interesting and challenging. OK, If you like just pop onto gentoo embedded... gentoo-embed...@lists.gentoo.org James

[gentoo-user] KDE4 desktops interference

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 desktops interference

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference

2009-05-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 21:51:55 schrieb maxim wexler: Still panics Sure, because of CONFIG_USB_[EOUW]HCI_HCD=m. If you want to boot from USB, kernel needs to have a means to access your USB device. Don't know if that matters, but I would also enable some/all sub-options of USB-Storage.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:41:54 schrieb Masood Ahmed: maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com writes: Are you using an initrd? No, never used one on a gentoo box before. That's a fedora thing, isn't it? Nope! Its not distribution specific. It's a kernel feature. But it's up to the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Saphirus Sage
I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. On May 7, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:41:54 schrieb Masood Ahmed: maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com writes: Are you using an initrd? No, never used one

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:48:15 schrieb Saphirus Sage: I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. Then you're doing something wrong. I boot mine without, even with encrypted / on logical volume. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

[gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Boris Fersing
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 18:59, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, Hi, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1  

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 07.05.2009 18:59: Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:59:54 schrieb maxim wexler: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. Yes, you did. Just guess where the k in klibc comes from? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-07 Thread Steve
Anthony Metcalf wrote: *That* depends on the exact specifics of what he is/isn't allowed to be showing.They may not even want the service to show as existing at that address for whatever reason. Thanks for all your discussion... I'll try to clarify - the PPP over SSH approach does seem

[gentoo-user] bind chrooting: mount permission denied...

2009-05-07 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just emerged bind and at the end I tried to set-up chroot for it just as it is adviced in messages: # emerge --config '=net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p2' Configuring pkg... * * Setting up the chroot directory...mount: permission denied Done. Where can I find that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread maxim wexler
Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the ebuild notes: Yes, I saw that too, but 1) why

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 May 2009 21:07:57 maxim wexler wrote: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 -

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 May 2009 18:48:15 Saphirus Sage wrote: I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop with initrd. initrd's are there for the case where the distro builder does not know what the hardware is

Re: [gentoo-user] bind chrooting: mount permission denied...

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just emerged bind and at the end I tried to set-up chroot for it just as it is adviced in messages: # emerge --config '=net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p2' Configuring pkg... * * Setting up the chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with /boot *not* on a

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:50:19 you wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Mirrored - no problem. But how else

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference

2009-05-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:50:19 you wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:00:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux raid. I

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:34:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Steve wrote: Anthony Metcalf wrote: *That* depends on the exact specifics of what he is/isn't allowed to be showing.They may not even want the service to show as existing at that address for whatever reason. Thanks for all your discussion... I'll try to

[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped

[gentoo-user] WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-07 Thread Jorge Morais
When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name 3597 is evince's pid. Does anybody know what causes this? Should I worry

RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-07 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
I may need more time for doing this - currently for time constraint i have switched over to some other distro. Thanks for the info Mark. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time.  Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the

[gentoo-user] CVS ebuild not working: Connection refused

2009-05-07 Thread Grant
The dvda-author-cvs ebuild here: http://gentoo.zugaina.org/portage/media-sound/dvda-author-cvs/dvda-author-cvs-0.1.ebuild gives me this: * Running cvs -q -f -z1 -d :pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dvd-audio login Logging in to

[gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

2009-05-07 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I checked my kernel config and found that console scrollback is enabled and given 64k capacity. Guess that's the default. But the console can't be scrolled back a single line. I upped the capcity to 128k, same thing. On the desktop I can hold down the shift and up-arrow keys and

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail