[gentoo-user] vmware-tools has broken lib

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i am using the vmware-tools that vmware workstation provided, and it has some broken libs /usr/lib64/vmware-tools/lib64/libconf/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tiff.so - (none) /usr/lib64/vmware-tools/lib64/libconf/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so - (none)

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools has broken lib

2009-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: the system seems working well, but it is really annoying seeing them every time. is there any way to resolve this? or can i tel revdep-rebuild not to check these files? echo /usr/lib64/vmware-tools/lib64 /etc/revdep-rebuild/90-vmware-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-24 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said to have been masked, so i unmasked it.

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:00:52 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: Masked packages are usually masked for a reason. That reason is given in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask -- Neil Bothwick An expert is nothing more than an ordinary person away from home. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:00:52 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to

[gentoo-user] gentoo amd64 + kde + compiz in vmware?

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i just tried to enable compiz fusion in my kde4 on a vmware guest os, but failed. does anybody have luck with this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo amd64 + kde + compiz in vmware?

2009-12-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 December 2009 14:00:41 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i just tried to enable compiz fusion in my kde4 on a vmware guest os, but failed. does anybody have luck with this? You are highly unlikely to get any useful answers until you post some relevant info about what you are trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 11:00:52 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the

[gentoo-user] Grub boots to command prompt

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then went through and installed a bunch of packages - xorg, kde, etc. I installed genkernel, compiled a custom kernel, and updated /boot/grub/menu.lst.

[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo 64bit from 32bit running enviroment

2009-12-24 Thread Carlos Moyano Cubillos
Dear friends, I have a gentoo system running 32bit .. and I have a 30GB partition available on which I would like to install a 64bit Gentoo to test for 64bit extensions processor supports . someone could help me and tell me how to proceed with this installation from my running system without

[gentoo-user] xconsole characters

2009-12-24 Thread pk
Hi, Does anyone know if there's a way to configure xconsole to not display control characters (at least that's what I think it is)? Currently xconsole displays this when XDM starts: [32;01m*[0m Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ... [A[152C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub boots to command prompt

2009-12-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:52:37 Daniel D Jones wrote: Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then went through and installed a bunch of packages - xorg, kde, etc. I installed genkernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo 64bit from 32bit running enviroment

2009-12-24 Thread alex ponomarev
Hello. If you want to test for 64bit extensions processor support, why won't you try it in VirtualBox or VMware? I think it's better for tests than install a second system on your second partition. Much faster and easier to use virtualization, no?

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub boots to command prompt - solved

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Thursday 24 December 2009 08:52:37 Daniel D Jones wrote: Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then went through and installed a bunch of packages - xorg, kde, etc. I installed genkernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub boots to command prompt

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Thursday 24 December 2009 10:52:08 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 15:52:37 Daniel D Jones wrote: Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then went through and installed a

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo amd64 + kde + compiz in vmware?

2009-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:00:41 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just tried to enable compiz fusion in my kde4 on a vmware guest os, but failed. does anybody have luck with this? The VMware virtual video card doesn't support 3D AFAIR. B -- Neil Bothwick A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a

[gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread bn
Hi, I am updating my Macbook Pro installation. While many programs I updated often, the basics (Xorg, kernel, etc.) were taking dust since... well, a lot. I only found time with these holidays. This is therefore probably the first thread of a long series... To make it short: The machine is a

[gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom of Composer shows Spellcheck: on. Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows the message Spell check complete. But no mispelled words are marked, including nonsense strings like lakjdfh. ispell is installed. I can go

Re: [gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Thursday 24 December 2009 16:53:43 bn wrote: alsamixer and kmix agree on everything being turned on. Where should I try to look? Make sure that your username is in the audio group. (Just solved this one about an hour ago on my system after a new install.) -- It would be as useless to

Re: [gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:53:43PM +, bn wrote: Hi, I am updating my Macbook Pro installation. While many programs I updated often, the basics (Xorg, kernel, etc.) were taking dust since... well, a lot. I only found time with these holidays. This is therefore probably the first thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

2009-12-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom of Composer shows Spellcheck: on. Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows the message Spell check complete. But no mispelled words are marked, including nonsense

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo amd64 + kde + compiz in vmware?

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
oh, so no 3d in vmware...i remember vbox has 3d in guest os. may be i should give that a try. thanks ;) On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:00:41 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i just tried to enable compiz fusion in my kde4 on a vmware guest

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread bn
Hi, Bruce Hill ha scritto: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:53:43PM +, bn wrote: Which codec does your HDA Intel use? Then check if it's in your kernel: zgrep 'CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC' /proc/config.gz Your codec might not be easy to determine, such as mine: jeremiah ~ # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-tools has broken lib

2009-12-24 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:25:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: the system seems working well, but it is really annoying seeing them every time. is there any way to resolve this? or can i tel revdep-rebuild not to check these files?