[gentoo-user] KDE3 k-menu: hotkey not working after renaming of mozilla-firefox-bin package

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi group I have set up my firefox item in k-menu to be launched via Win+Z. A short while ago, mozilla-firefox-bin was renamed to only firefox-bin. At first, the shortcut wasn’t visible anymore until I changed its command manually to firefox-bin¹. But since then also, the shortcut doesn’t work

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE3 k-menu: hotkey not working after renaming of mozilla-firefox-bin package

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hi group I have set up my firefox item in k-menu to be launched via Win+Z. A short while ago, mozilla-firefox-bin was renamed to only firefox-bin. At first, the shortcut wasn’t visible anymore until I changed its command manually to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal user, the smplayer does not have

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/17/2010 11:42 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:40:44 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: . If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another directory. That copy will not contain any sub-mounts (as if you accessed it from a livecd), Or you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 16 January 2010 22:14:00 walt wrote: On 01/16/2010 08:32 AM, Mikie wrote: Hello, I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. My question is: Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:28:53 Jarry wrote: Now I installed one more sata-disk, attached to sata4 position on mobo. But this changed the way how other disks are detected: Mobo: drive: system: sata1 160GB /dev/sdb sata2 160GB /dev/sdc sata3 dvdrw (not_detected) sata4 500GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal user, the smplayer does not have some. i have already add that user account into the audio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: [...] I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: You can clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Jarry
On 17. 1. 2010 11:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: In between I got a reply from other mailing list saying it is not a bug, it is a feature!. And the reason for this feature is udev - it creates dev-files dynamically and sata port-numbers do not play any role for order in which hard-drives are detected

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 11:30:00 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:28:53 Jarry wrote: Now I installed one more sata-disk, attached to sata4 position on mobo. But this changed the way how other disks are detected: Mobo: drive: system: sata1 160GB /dev/sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 15:14:06 Jarry wrote: If all you are doing is making filesystems available for use, and you find you are getting involved with device names, then you are doing something contrary to current kernel/udev/userspace practice. If your last paragraph ist true, then it

[gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If this pans out, maybe there's a chance Dale can get a working

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If this pans out, maybe there's a chance Dale

RE: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Mikie
Had you ever thought of asking this on an Ubuntu list rather than a Gentoo one? [K. Mike Bradley] Sorry Ubuntu server Gentoo client My question is what parts if the FSH should be local on the Gentoo client.

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: From my understanding, isn't the same guy doing devicekit that did hal? I'm not saying it won't be better because it should be. From what I read a good while back, he learned a lot about the pitfalls of hal. He, most likely, will

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If this

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes: Harry Putnam wrote: So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner understand how to utilize the new proceedure. xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations of

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 18:18:36 Eray Aslan wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: From my understanding, isn't the same guy doing devicekit that did hal? I'm not saying it won't be better because it should be. From what I read a good while back, he learned a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. It seems that DeviceKit is no help for the various bugs in hald that prevent writng

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Walker
Eray Aslan wrote: It is usually done right in the third version. First one too small, second one too big, third one just right :) I think it is called Second System Effect No, it's called Goldilocks and the Three Bears. ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. Xorg is removing HAL support; as of xorg-server-1.8 HAL is no longer used. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzc2Mw Devicekit will not replace HAL entirely: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL Btw, devicekit has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Walker
Joerg Schilling wrote: how do we prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald? The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 January 2010 15:25:09 James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Ok, I do not know what it is called. It's called the kdm login manager (it is a Display Manager). I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3 It's the kde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are custom settings regarding the X session done? Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/ Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change these days is the motherboards I want to purchase no longer support EIDE/ATAPI interfaces so I'll have to get a new CD-R/DVD-R drive to get the OS loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem

2010-01-17 Thread Mihai Tanasescu
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:09:44 +0200, Mihai Tanasescu wrote: gate etc # ls -la /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Jan 16 12:08 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop gate etc # emerge eselect --- Invalid atom in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 01/17, Neil Bothwick wrote: === Or you could simply use the -x option with rsync. But copying an in use filesystem is a bad idea, better to boot from a live CD and do the job there. If you want to minimise downtime, === I recently did something like this. I did use the 10th

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jan 2010, at 18:42, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. It seems that DeviceKit is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: It seems that DeviceKit is no help for the various bugs in hald that prevent writng CDs/DVDs/BluRays under certain circumstances. I did write mail to the DeviceKit maintainer to no avail, ... You probably didn't bitch him out thoroughly

[gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-17 Thread Crístian Viana
hi! I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) and I can't make X.org work. when I try X -configure it says it can't load the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. Xorg is removing HAL support; as of xorg-server-1.8 HAL is no longer used. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzc2Mw Devicekit will not replace HAL entirely: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu wrote: Mikie wrote: I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. My question is: Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir? Should Tmp  be local

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:16:33 +0200, Mihai Tanasescu wrote: emerge --info: Output can be found here: http://dpaste.com/146596/ Please don't put important information on temporary sites, it makes reading the thread in the archives at a later date useless. gate ~ # emerge --info --- Invalid

[gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

2010-01-17 Thread Grant
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this nearly 4-year-old bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 The solution is presented as: qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-17 Thread Xi Shen
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote: hi! I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) and I can't make X.org work. when I try X -configure it says it can't load the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches,

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:39 -0500, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: with 2.6.31 everything works fine (network manager, wpa supplicant, etc). However with 2.6.32, I can load the module (iwlagn) and see it in dmesg, but iwconfig just says wlan0 no wireless extensions. and I can't associate or do

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 January 2010 05:59:14 Grant wrote: I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this nearly 4-year-old bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 The solution is presented as: qlist -o

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 22:14:06 Neil Walker wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: how do we prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald? The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. ;) That might not be a bad idea I never agreed with the