Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:17:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: and now the preserved-rebuild info is gone. myth12 ~ # emerge -p @preserved-rebuild emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion myth12 ~ # So I guess it's fixed. Right? Right... If emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-03 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-03 Thread Dirk Uys
2009/12/2 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_IDE is always set

2009-12-03 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i am using genkernel to compile my kernel. i have CONFIG_IDE set to no, but after i boot my system, in the /proc/config.gz file, the CONFIG_IDE is still set to y. i have checked the file /etc/kernels and /usr/src/linux/.config, and the CONFIG_IDE is set to no. it looks like the genkernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.12.2009 22:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I always think of the possibility to somehow bookmark a thread and to be able to quickcheck all these threads for replies, without the need of scrolling through miles of other postings (yep, I already sort mails into folders and use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey config_MYWLAN=( dhcp ) preferred_APS= ( myWLAN ) I would like to use a tool like WPA

[gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-03 Thread dhk
A couple of months ago when the new X came out I did an upgrade on my x86 box and all went well. Recently I reinstalled Gentoo on the same box because I wanted to repartition my hard disk, now I can't get X working. I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati,

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IDE is always set

2009-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 December 2009 13:21:35 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i am using genkernel to compile my kernel. i have CONFIG_IDE set to no, but after i boot my system, in the /proc/config.gz file, the CONFIG_IDE is still set to y. i have checked the file /etc/kernels and /usr/src/linux/.config, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-12-03 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: emerge -C e2fsprogs-libs emerge -DuN @world? revdep-rebuild -i Hello Mark, My memory is not the sharpest these day, but, I thought I ran across a bug that posted this as part of the solution. I was updating 8 different systems, some not updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:17:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: and now the preserved-rebuild info is gone. myth12 ~ # emerge -p @preserved-rebuild emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-03 Thread Kirill Lipatov
I do have an NVIDIA card. Moreover, I have the very same version of wine on Ubuntu and all of the games are running with no problem. It is only on gentoo, where I have this problem. Kirill 2009/12/3 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz === On Thu, 12/03, Kirill Lipatov wrote: === Any ideas? ===

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error messages. -- Neil Bothwick I can resist everything except temptation. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-03 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: I do have an NVIDIA card. Moreover, I have the very same version of wine on Ubuntu and all of the games are running with no problem. It is only on gentoo, where I have this problem. Kirill That makes me wonder a

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-03 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason Steam fails to start any games on my gentoo box. I am using wine 1.1.32 with the engine itself and the games all downloaded to gentoo's partition (not the ntfs3g problem). Steam itself loads fine, but when I click launch

[gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread felix
I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes, that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or make up a new

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, drucken means to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread felix
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:50:08PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: I'd suggest you use a unicode library. BTW, what about cyrillic letters or other alphabets? Those may have nothing to do with ASCII. Or is your project restricted to latin letters? The data is already in normalized Unicode. My

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? If you want to leave of the umlaut you have to be absolutely sure that there exists no other

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-03 Thread Kirill Lipatov
The disabling of the in-game chat unfortunately doesn't help my problem 2009/12/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason Steam fails to start any games on my gentoo box. I am using wine 1.1.32 with the engine itself and the

[gentoo-user] Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I tried to follow information

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the unlauted u? No. For many words

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 00:07:33 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In Germany is a district Busingen, with an umlauted 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-03 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Francisco Ares
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:07:26 -0800 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? If you want to

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/3/09, fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I assume you have already removed the language problem from the equation? I.e., the fact that København,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Mick
Please ignore previous message ... I should have gone to bed by now because evidently I am too tired to think clearly! O_O I will try to boot up with a 64bit OS next. On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 00:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach the lspci output

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread felix
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:32:45PM -0200, Francisco Ares wrote: What about a set of dictionaries? And also a library for mistyped word search? Way too much effort for this. Nice idea, might even be fun, but it's just trying to avoid the common things, and I mainly wondered about how often

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread felix
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:38:34AM +0200, Arttu V. wrote: I assume you have already removed the language problem from the equation? I.e., the fact that K?benhavn, Copenhague, K??penhamina and Copenhagen all mean the same place, just in different European languages (Danish, Spanish, Finnish

[gentoo-user] KDE4 Device Manager Permissions

2009-12-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! When I plug in an USB stick (with a VFAT partition), the device manager plasmoid notifies me and allows to mount it. That's fine, but I would like the permissions to be different, so that another user is able to write to it. This user is using the same desktop, he is logged in via

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-12-03 Thread Alexander Clark
Really late post on this, but an emphasis on march settings is warranted. This will totally bungle all kinds of compiling. Daid, thanks for your input. I keep an extra line of 'safe' cflags commented out, which saved the day in this case. If it helps anyone, here's what the [continuing]

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 02:03:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue. Your name shows here in 7-bit ASCII:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread felix
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:03:23AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ?, ? or ?, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue. I'd like to find a program which

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:10:30 Willie Wong wrote: It is somehow worrisome that background IO like writing to the History file can lock up the UI...) Indeed. That does smell unwholesome. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread walt
On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope Nikos's suggestion will help you, but just in case it doesn't:

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone talks to me while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:45:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 04 December 2009 00:14:36 Mick wrote: Hi All, I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the CPU are recognised, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Xavier Parizet
Hi, You don't need to go to bed :) Just setup your kernel to use High-Memory: cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig; then item: Processor type and features - High Memory Support - 4GB And it's done, but keep in mind that userspace processes will still be limited to 3GB of memory use (AFAIK) (if