Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-29 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 24.06.10 17:09, schrieb Matthias Fechner: hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile, tones of the following lines: Jun 24 06:54:42 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 24 06:54:54 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0,

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't like to make a

[gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Chen Huan
I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute emerge --sync, I make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it, the output is : Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Chen Huan writes: I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute emerge --sync, I make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it, the output is :

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 19:51 +0800, Chen Huan wrote: I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute emerge --sync, I make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Chen Huan
thanks previously jabberd2 is being merged from my own overlay too in /var/lib/layman/myown, I just make the directory net-im/jabberd2/, there is no other things in /var/lib/layman/myown Should I add some other things to the directory of my own overlay?? Did you previously rename your repo or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Chen Huan
ok, I got it after add a file repo_name to /var/lib/layman/myown, the warning message disappeared thanks very much 2010/6/29 Chen Huan chenhu...@gmail.com thanks previously jabberd2 is being merged from my own overlay too in /var/lib/layman/myown, I just make the directory

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:26 PM, mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: hi all! My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] What is wrong with lame?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Mateusz Mierzwiński mateuszmierzwin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wish to ask if anyone also have same feeling that Winamp running on Wine (ALSA output) have better sound quality than players like VLC, XMMS, Amarok and even songbird just as many others? What's

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread mailinglists00
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:42:49PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:26:13PM +0200, mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and

Re: [gentoo-user] What is wrong with lame?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Mateusz Mierzwiński mateuszmierzwin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wish to ask if anyone also have same feeling that Winamp running on Wine (ALSA output) have better sound quality

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. Is there disk activity when this happens? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mateusz Mierzwiński writes: I have KDE4. It work's perfect. Whooo, now at least this sounds good! Try set Custom-cxxflags to off, maybe this will help. From my opinion KDE and QT 4 don't like customized C/CXX Flags, such as fomit-frame-pointer and similar. I have: CFLAGS=-march=k8-sse3

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:23:48 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I tried chromium once, about half a year ago, but it crashed instantly. Emerging it again. But I like Konqueror very much. It has problems with some web sites, for those I use Firefox. I am missing some of Firefox' plugins, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge all missing dependencies of a certain application without emerging the application itself? And: Will I hurt the system that way?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM,meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge all missing dependencies of a certain application without emerging the application itself? And: Will

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Mateusz Mierzwiński
First of all - try to configure X-es by hald. If this don't work on Your arch, try revert to xorg.conf. I have Intel GMA965 card and it work's ideal.  If You say about web clients, that You hate them - it's yours right. I like it, because of 396 firm contacts on my contact book connected to them

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com  wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM,meino.cra...@gmx.de  wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge all missing dependencies of a certain

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:30:03 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!: [snip] I have: CFLAGS=-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer AFAIK -fomit-frame-pointer should be perfectly safe, at the only cost of making debugging harder. For AMD K8

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM,meino.cra...@gmx.dewrote: Hi, is it possible

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up.  Thing is, portage is not the only package manager being used. That's an important point. Personally I think portage should be the official package manager and if

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:40:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, portage is not the only package manager being used. Personally I think portage should be the official package manager and if you chose to use something else, you should know

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:08:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, portage is not the only package manager being used. Personally I think portage should be the official package manager and if you chose to use something else, you

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.06.2010 13:48, schrieb Willie Wong: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device

[gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Hasan SAHIN
Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? P.S. : I am using x86 stable box. Regards, Hasan.

[gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 05:54 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? P.S. : I am using x86 stable box. Depends more on the version of gcc you're using.

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hasan SAHIN writes: I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sure, as long as you are not using distcc, in which case the distcc servers would compile according to _their_ native

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 05:54 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sorry, Hasan, I dropped my 3s. -msse3 and -march=k8-sse3

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/6/29 Hasan SAHIN hasan.sa...@gmx.com: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? You can see which options -march=native would use by running this command: gcc -Q

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Hasan SAHIN
29-06-2010 22:03, Bill Longman yazmış: On 06/29/2010 05:54 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sorry, Hasan, I dropped my 3s. -msse3

Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:56:45PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote I installed OS/2 Warp 4 with KVM and it just worked (TM)! It is also incredibly fast (on a Core2 Duo). Thanks for that report. I'll try it out. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.06.2010 00:22, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:56:45PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote I installed OS/2 Warp 4 with KVM and it just worked (TM)! It is also incredibly fast (on a Core2 Duo). Thanks for that report. I'll try it out. KVM is nice. Just before I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:38:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:23:48 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I tried chromium once, about half a year ago, but it crashed instantly. Emerging it again. But I like Konqueror very much. It has problems with some web sites, for those I use

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, portage is not the only package manager being used. That's an important point. Personally I think portage should be the

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/29/2010 06:08 PM, Hasan SAHIN wrote: I have read the safe flags document and it says that : /GCC 4.2 introduces a new -march option, -march=*native*, which automatically detects the features your CPU supports and sets the options appropriately. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU and are

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:38:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: I used to be a big Konqueror fan until about six months ago. Then I tried Chromium and was blown away by its speed and the way it works on more sites. I do miss some of the integration of Konqueror and its kio-slaves and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 01:16:44 Alex Schuster wrote: Alex, have you tried turning off the Nepomuke service? I see in one of your screenshots that you are having problems with it (segfaults). No. The screenshot was taken shortly after logging in, the log shows the Strigi crashes. So I

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/28/2010 09:47 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and restarted by XDM every few minutes... I stopped using display managers years ago, mostly because they make life so difficult when X is being flakey. My advice is to avoid xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;) Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are you sure there's no kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability of almost

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit, it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even has web shortcuts, which are a must-have for me now. What I'm missing most now is mouse gestures. I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/29/2010 07:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: I have: CFLAGS=-march=k8-sse3 Hm. I've never seen that flag before. My k8 supports only sse2. AFAIK -fomit-frame-pointer should be perfectly safe, at the only cost of making debugging harder. I already thought about removing it anyway, so my bug

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Beau Henderson
On 06/30/10 08:07, Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/6/29 Hasan SAHINhasan.sa...@gmx.com: Hello all, I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? You can see which options -march=native would use

[gentoo-user] Re: VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread walt
On 06/27/2010 11:19 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: ... I want to try hosting 32-bit Gentoo and also OS/2 Warp 4... I've found VirtualBox to be a bit faster than kvm only because of their highly optimized graphics driver. The vbox gui is also nice, but requires qt4 (a pain for us gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread Crístian Viana
Anyone know if kvm has a similar gui for managing virtual machines? app-emulation/virt-manager

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 11:09 +1000, Beau Henderson wrote: On 06/30/10 08:07, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] You can see which options -march=native would use by running this command: gcc -Q --help=target -march=native (thanks to Daniel Iliev for the tip) Perhaps I'm missing something

[gentoo-user] Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-06-29 Thread Grant
I need to install the google-api-adwords-perl library, and it requires that SOAP-WSDL is patched with the soap_wsdl_patches.pl perl script. Can I have SOAP-WSDL patched via the perl script in an ebuild? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:04:59PM -0700, walt wrote When companies that rich and powerful push web-only services as the answer to their revenue prayers, I suspect they may be able to win. The answer to that is Gnumeric/Abiword, unless MS/Google get them outlawed. OpenOffice (Bleagh) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:20:08PM -0700, walt wrote But my real reason for replying is to ask you why you're interested in OS/2. I thought IBM lost interest in it ages ago. Am I wrong? I have Galactic Civilizations V2.5, an OS/2-only game, on a 400 mhz PII running Warp 4. I still love it