Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 February 2010 05:28:14 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 21/02/10 Stroller said: It's using the old version of gcc, because you haven't told it to use the new version. The output you posted specifically told you to run: gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 20:43, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and

[gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! The 2.1.x-Version of Skype seems to use pulseaudio if it finds a pulsaudio- deamon running, and doesn't allow to chose the audio device in this case. What I want to have is very simple: * Ringtone and any other sound produced by skype shall go to the internal sound device with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
Other people are mentioning udev, and I wonder about this, too. Either before or after you check the kernel (whichever you decide is easier or seems better to you), can you chroot and rebuild udev through portage and also run a revdep-rebuild please? You said you updated, but it is not clear

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in /proc and /dev you don't want. This could avoid any problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 17 February 2010 06:27, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought SSDs were projected to last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much longer than MLC. It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1] [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 15:38, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: The 2.1.x-Version of Skype seems to use pulseaudio if it finds a pulsaudio- deamon running, and doesn't allow to chose the audio device in this case. Yep, I noticed this recently as well, and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 08:38 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! The 2.1.x-Version of Skype seems to use pulseaudio if it finds a pulsaudio- deamon running, and doesn't allow to chose the audio device in this case. What I want to have is very simple: * Ringtone and any other sound

Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support. So, I do. I added gcj to my global make.conf and ran the emerge, and gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-22 Thread hb-xxl
On 21.02.2010 20:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: Does --tree show what is trying to pull it in? No. It does only say world or system. Some command outputs appended to clarify the problem. $ emerge -v -t -p -u -D world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-22 Thread hb-xxl
On 21.02.2010 20:07, Paul Colquhoun wrote: Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in /usr/local/portage directory? That way you won't be fighting with portage about what version to install. No. I'm fairly new to gentoo and the ebuild system. Currently I don't know much

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Feb 2010, at 07:54, daid kahl wrote: ... As far as I know, solid state devices are much more susceptible to solar flare damage, particularly if you are outside. This is not exactly common, but hey. Of course I also have a theory that not an insignificant number of computer problems are

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge mldonkey?

2010-02-22 Thread Xi Shen
what should i do? i never got questioned when emerging something. emerge dev-lang/ocaml i already have dev-lang/ocaml-3.11.1 emerged. should i downgrade it to a lower version? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I give it

[gentoo-user] Re: how to emerge mldonkey?

2010-02-22 Thread Xi Shen
ok. problem solved. i downgraded the dev-lang/ocaml to 3.10.2, then run ocaml-rebuild.sh. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-22 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 18:51, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 February 2010 12:28, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support. So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 22 February 2010 12:57:27 Stroller wrote: On 22 Feb 2010, at 07:54, daid kahl wrote: ... As far as I know, solid state devices are much more susceptible to solar flare damage, particularly if you are outside. This is not exactly common, but hey. Of course I also have a theory

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 22 Februar 2010 10:48:37 schrieb David Abbott: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 08:38 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! The 2.1.x-Version of Skype seems to use pulseaudio if it finds a pulsaudio- deamon running, and doesn't allow to chose the audio device in this case. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on SSD

2010-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:57:27 +, Stroller wrote: I have recently decided to blame solar flares cosmic ray induced muon showers whenever one of my customers asks why their PC is broken. We are coming out of a long period of minimal solar activity with activity expected to hit a high peak

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Februar 2010, daid kahl wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone

[gentoo-user] Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-22 Thread James
Sebastian Beßler sebastian at darkmetatron.de writes: Tried to fix it by underscaning but that doesn't help either. My TV always adaptes magically. You can try to play the the DisplaySize settings, which is what I used in a similar situation: example # DisplaySize 426 266 # width

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread YoYo siska
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:49:47AM -0500, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to an

Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-22 Thread Anthony Mutiso
On 02/20/10 04:03, Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 02/20, Adam wrote: === So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report? === Yes, use the open source drivers: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati This can't universally be the answer. I have been forced to upgrade from ati-drivers-9.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 22. Februar 2010 15:48:53 schrieb James: Sebastian Beßler sebastian at darkmetatron.de writes: Tried to fix it by underscaning but that doesn't help either. My TV always adaptes magically. You can try to play the the DisplaySize settings, which is what I used in a similar

[gentoo-user] Re: [X11] radeonhd not working

2010-02-22 Thread James
Andrey Vul andrey.vul at gmail.com writes: Firmware installed, I still get this: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. Just a shot in the dark, but make sure you have the latest pciids on the system:

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread David
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Am Montag 22 Februar 2010 10:48:37 schrieb David Abbott: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 08:38 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! The 2.1.x-Version of Skype seems to use pulseaudio if it finds a pulsaudio- deamon running, and doesn't allow to chose the audio device in

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-22 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/22/10, John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au wrote: From the looks of things, it's trying to install a file directly to the filesystem outside the /var/tmp sandbox. I believe this is a bug that needs reporting, but before I did that, I thought I'd check to be sure it wasn't something I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:13:40PM +0100, YoYo siska wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:49:47AM -0500, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:53:00 Dale wrote: So, Seamonkey 1 isn't usable and Seamonkey 2 has a few bugs up its but too. KDE is about the same. Perhaps KDE itself is for you, but I've been using kmail for years without any real problems. Well, earlier versions would sometimes corrupt

[gentoo-user] kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread James
Hello, I accidentally removed my panelbar (jargon?) across the bottom my my kde 4.3.3 screen. Googling has produced a wealth (of not what I need to know) minutia. So, how do I recover the kde panel bar across the bottom my my screen. The closest answer I found was remove the ~user/.kde4

[gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

2010-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal installed? I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only log server. Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be removed?

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread Stefano Crocco
On Monday 22 February 2010, James wrote: |Hello, | |I accidentally removed my panelbar (jargon?) across the bottom my my |kde 4.3.3 screen. | | |Googling has produced a wealth (of not what I need to know) |minutia. | | |So, how do I recover the kde panel bar across the bottom my |my

[gentoo-user] Re: How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works surprisingly well. If Volker gave me that same advice long ago, I've used cfg-update ever since. Its

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-22 Thread sean
Alan McKinnon wrote: what is the output from dmesg? I have the Sansa Clip + in MSC mode, though have tried the other two modes. The tail end of my last few connects, and disconnects. Not sure of how much to include. [16243.196854] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-22 Thread sean
Damian wrote: Did you enable USB in your kernel? Sure did, USB memory sticks work fine, and I believe they work on the same principal as the Clip+. I attached dmesg output into another reply.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-22 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:53:00 Dale wrote: So, Seamonkey 1 isn't usable and Seamonkey 2 has a few bugs up its but too. KDE is about the same. Perhaps KDE itself is for you, but I've been using kmail for years

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread James
Stefano Crocco stefano.crocco at alice.it writes: Right click on the desktop and choose add panel. This should give you an empty panel. To fill it with widgets, click on the plasma symbol at right end of the panel, choose add widgets and insert the widgets you want. I hope this helps

Re: [gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

2010-02-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Harry Putnam schrieb: On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal installed? I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only log server. Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be removed? My server (ssh, apache,

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/22/2010 09:03 PM, James wrote: Stefano Croccostefano.croccoat alice.it writes: Right click on the desktop and choose add panel. This should give you an empty panel. To fill it with widgets, click on the plasma symbol at right end of the panel, choose add widgets and insert the widgets

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: With the mouse. Must be something wrong. These panels that fire up are disfunctional. Cant move add or delete too them You might want to delete your ~/.kde4 folder instead to get back at the defaults. Keep the stuff you want though

Re: [gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

2010-02-22 Thread hb-xxl
On 22.02.2010 18:03, Harry Putnam wrote: On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal installed? I don't of any console based service that realy needs dbus or hal. Don't think that a log server needs them. Espessially if you disable dbus and hal in the use flags and do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:19:41PM +, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: With the mouse. Must be something wrong. These panels that fire up are disfunctional. Cant move add or delete too them Lock/Unlock widgets in the context menu? Btw you can fire up

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-22 Thread John H. Moe
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/22/10, John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au wrote: From the looks of things, it's trying to install a file directly to the filesystem outside the /var/tmp sandbox. I believe this is a bug that needs reporting, but before I did that, I thought I'd check to be sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:11:53PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:53:00 Dale wrote: So, Seamonkey 1 isn't usable and Seamonkey 2 has a few bugs up its but too. KDE is about the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 22 Februar 2010, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: With the mouse. Must be something wrong. These panels that fire up are disfunctional. Cant move add or delete too them You might want to delete your ~/.kde4 folder instead to get back at the

Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag 22 Februar 2010 16:17:06 schrieb Anthony Mutiso: I would really like to stay with the opensource radeonhd driver, but it looks like I have to give up dual-screen (:0.0, :0.1 setup) which I prefer for Gnome. So it would nice to still have a working ati-drivers setup until

Re: [gentoo-user] any advantage to dbus or hal on minimal system

2010-02-22 Thread Neil Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal installed? I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only log server. Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be removed? They are totally redundant.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 17:37 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: yop, that was it though you wrote about /dev/hda*, which means you should be a bit more carefull if you used the IDE drivers (under ATA/ATAPI/ support, thats the CONFIG_IDE option) and disabled the CONFIG_IDE options, you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:42 -0500, David wrote: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Am Montag 22 Februar 2010 10:48:37 schrieb David Abbott: Just tried this tool, but it seems to be a complete failure. Just gives a box with connection refused, but no information what it tries to connect to.

[gentoo-user] Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-22 Thread Stroller
Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised don't try using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the whole KDE environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead of Kmail. I kept my gob somewhat shut at that time, because I've been using Knode