[gentoo-ppc-user] X on an older PPC-based Mac Mini?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Are there any known issues setting up X with xorgconfig on a older Mac Mini? I've done it more or less like I do on my x86 machines. I can use startx and see things (xterm, xclock, etc.) in 'top' but I only get a black screen. There are no error messages in the X log file. I've tried two

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 May 2009 00:11:12 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Edit the world file and remove every version number in that file if present. You don;t need it and portage is infinitely better at tracking it than you are. Then remove everything with a category ending

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:22 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: Or maybe I should just stick to all-stable, so as to not be different, and keep package.keywords for those packages where I really want a new feature (like packages with no stable versions)? If you want so many up to date packages,

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you for the expert advice. I'm doing the emerge now, but even if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this file, since portageq seems to see that it does.

Re: -march=auto (was: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]eee 900a intel atom is what processor family?)

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:08:59 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Paul Hartman writes: Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a version of GCC that supports it. BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will actually use with -march=auto? gcc -Q

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:00:05 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:22 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: Or maybe I should just stick to all-stable, so as to not be different, and keep package.keywords for those packages where I really want a new feature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:40:28 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: maybe you should just run a ~arch system. I want a reliable system. Isn't ~arch quite less reliable than arch ? Not in my experience. ~arch only means the builds are in testing, the software is as reliable as upstream makes it. You may

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you for the expert advice.  I'm doing the emerge now, but even if it succeeds, I'm worried that the

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread james
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I think you need to set corepointer=0 in the FDI file or something similar to that. Or if you're using xorg.conf point it to a specific mouse instead of /dev/mice or whatever the catch-all mouse device is. May be able to get rid of it

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James
Uwe keksvernichter at googlemail.com writes: Have you looked in the Bios? Somewhere around there should be an option to turn the touchpad completely off After booting, I'm pretty sure Linux just ignores the bios on most systems.? James

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James
Saphirus Sage saphirus497 at gmail.com writes: Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to load the driver. I'd suggest just #'ing out the whole InputDevice section

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: From: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Received: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 12:30 PM I just wrote: Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a

Re: [gentoo-user] sudoers syntax questions

2009-05-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 22. Mai 2009 11:12:12 schrieb Arnau Bria: I'd like to allow some users to umount any dir under certain path, but as man says: Any idea will be appreciated. Use the kernel automounter (autofs). Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Saphirus Sage saphirus497 at gmail.com writes: Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to

[gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The drivers get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in the X log file. I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread bn
Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The drivers get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The  

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so I emerged xdm and start it using

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a Myth server. I didn't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 May 2009 21:19:40 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Title sort of says it. I have an old machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009 21:19:40 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, bn brullonu...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:46, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009 21:19:40 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Mark

[gentoo-user] paludis --uninstall leaves stuff behind

2009-05-22 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Having determined that the Intel Atom CPU probably doesn't allow frequency scaling, or at least the current kern config doesn't, I did paludis -u cpfreqd paludis -u cpfrequtils because I got these annoying messages that CONFIG_CPU_FREQ must be set(it is!) And rebooted -- same

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Daniel da Veiga danieldave...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Or you're using an intel card. Set your VIDEO_CARDS variable in /etc/make.conf to vesa and recompile xorg-server, then try again. -- Daniel da Veiga Hi Daniel, I'm happy to try that, but for the

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: For an 900A w/intel Atom? This is what I get: Warning: Your compiler supports the -march=native option which you may prefer If you use this, then you 1) must be using =sys-devel/gcc-4.2, and 2) will always have the best

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Iliev writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: BTW, is there a possibility to let gcc tell what flags it will actually use with -march=auto? gcc -Q --help=target -march=native Cool, thanks! Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: But it suggests using -march=k8 - isn't that a 64-bit-only thing? I'm not For an 900A w/intel Atom? No, I have an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e. This is what I get: Warning: Your compiler

[gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Jon Hardcastle
I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and it kept failing on updating python-updater and it was tripping over the python install soo i did the 'sensible' thing and unemerged python. NOW I REALISE THAT PYTHON IS INTEGRAL TO emerge. Can i fix this Also, perhaps some more

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Michal Sroka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Download python package from internet and install it manually. Afterwards, when emerge get functional re-emerge python. ... I used this way, when it happened to me ... Michal Jon Hardcastle wrote: I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and

[gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?

2009-05-22 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This is a follow up to an earlier post about using paludis --uninstall. After not quite uninstalling cpufreqd and cpufrequtils(boot still complains) I gave ctrl-alt-del. When the eee 900a 4G SSD rebooted got a scary message the gist of which was that the file system was corrupt but

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Dale
Jon Hardcastle wrote: I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and it kept failing on updating python-updater and it was tripping over the python install soo i did the 'sensible' thing and unemerged python. NOW I REALISE THAT PYTHON IS INTEGRAL TO emerge. Can i fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Jon Hardcastle
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Michal Sroka michal.sr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Michal Sroka michal.sr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 12:13 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Download

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread maxim wexler
If so, Daniel's tip about 'gcc -Q --help=target -march=native' will give you the exact options to use.     Wonko See attachment please. Some stuff is enabled, some disabled, some blank. And -march=prescott !? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Dale
Jon Hardcastle wrote: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I followed this http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-22 Thread Arttu V.
Dale wrote: You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working? FEATURES=--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=auto

2009-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
maxim wexler writes: If so, Daniel's tip about 'gcc -Q --help=target -march=native' will give you the exact options to use. See attachment please. Some stuff is enabled, some disabled, some blank. Try this: gcc -Q --help=target -march=native /tmp/gccoptions.native gcc -Q --help=target

Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?

2009-05-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 01:15:16 schrieb maxim wexler: Does this have anything to do with #paludis -u some-pkg not getting along with the SSD? It's the only cause/effect scenario I can come up with. No, I don't think so. Watch the shutdown messages carefully and look wether one or more of the