Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le lundi 12 juillet 2010 10:31:34, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you tell it to use a particular keyboard layout? 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-14 Thread Rod
On 14/07/2010 3:01 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer I found that the problem (on mine at least) was

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:03 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Good. Life will be better now that you have xft support. :-) I'm looking forward to it. :) While messing around with this issue, I played with fontconfig a little bit (which didn't help, since I hadn't enabled xft support in emacs yet).

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump in and comment. This user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 06:39:51 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 05:49:48 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP

[gentoo-user] emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-14 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after the try failed 3 times. how can i configure it to switch mirrors automatically? --

[gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Mick
Over the last two days I have noticed a lot of crashes every time I start kmail. The popup says: Details: Executable: akonadi_maildir_resource PID:27916 Signal: 6 (Aborted) This pop up keeps repeating itself with different PIDs. Eventually, all settles and I can use kmail. The problem has

[gentoo-user] Alpine-2.00-r3 undelete fails to perform implied function. Email eventually becomes expunged regardless of undelete command.

2010-07-14 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Team, I am running Alpine-2.00-r3. In any folder, undelete fails to prevent an email marked for deletion from being deleted. The delete mark remains regardless of the output: [Deletion mark removed, message won't be deleted] Steps to replicate problem: Access a folder, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Camera App

2010-07-14 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Wednesday 14 July 2010 02:03:14, sean a écrit : Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using a webcam? I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must, I would choose KDE. Being in portage is a nice plus as well.

[gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
This morning (GMT-4) gtk-vnc failed to build. The first error I see is /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1/work/gtk-vnc-0.4.1/src/.libs/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so: file not recognized: File truncated collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The previous command is libtool: install: (cd

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-14 Thread Stroller
Hi Allan, Glad to have been some help. I can't answer any of your other questions, so it might be worth checking out the Totelm mailing list. The mplayer developers have a public ftp upload you can use to send them problematic files, maybe Totem devs have the same? Comments continue

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Jul 2010, at 23:06, Mick wrote: ... The larger Y-shaped keyboard/mouse-to-USB adapters usually support non-USB-compatible PS/2 mice, though. I have one like this and it works for me: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9291 Does this Y-shaped dongle contain any electronics in it?

[gentoo-user] Re: Alpine-2.00-r3 undelete fails to perform implied function. Email eventually becomes expunged regardless of undelete command.

2010-07-14 Thread ubiquitous1980
On 15/07/10 00:34, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Hello Team, I am running Alpine-2.00-r3. In any folder, undelete fails to prevent an email marked for deletion from being deleted. The delete mark remains regardless of the output: [Deletion mark removed, message won't be deleted] Steps

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Blackdream W
MAKEOPTS=-j1 FEATURES=-ccache emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Blackdream W
HmmmSorry,U don't need to disable the ccache.just type MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1 2010/7/15 Blackdream W blackdream1...@gmail.com MAKEOPTS=-j1 FEATURES=-ccache emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.07.2010 18:48, schrieb Jarry: Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make emerge --sync somehow less verbose? I know, I can use --quiet, but then I do not see

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.07.2010 03:04, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to Unknown. For a long time it has always been set to Evdev managed keyboard but that isn't even on the

[gentoo-user] udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, I run ~amd64 here, at least I try ;-) So far everything up-to-date, kernel tuxonice-sources-2.6.34-r1, udev-160 I had to reboot before (something with KVM stuck and I decided to clear up things with init 6), clean reboot, and now I get the following: quite long wait at Waiting for

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.07.2010 21:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Found no udev-related bugs at bugs.gentoo.org ... Any idea, someone? Maybe this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322711 ? Will follow ... S

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk-vnc build failure

2010-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Blackdream W blackdream1...@gmail.com writes: HmmmSorry,U don't need to disable the ccache.just type MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge -1av =net-libs/gtk-vnc-0.4.1 Works. Thank you. I promise to (try real hard to) remember in the future to try -j1 *before* bothering the list. thanks again, allan

[gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread James
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo Just for kicks: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ylxq12m04vbwag0a/ James

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't manage to google my

[gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't manage to google my way around this problem. Maybe some other package has to be reconfigured...

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:29:58 Mick wrote: Over the last two days I have noticed a lot of crashes every time I start kmail. The popup says: Details: Executable: akonadi_maildir_resource PID:27916 Signal: 6 (Aborted) This pop up keeps repeating itself with different PIDs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-related (?) problem

2010-07-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.07.2010 21:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Maybe this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322711 Yep, it was. Waiting for the boot took too long, chrooting and downgrading mdadm did solve it. Sorry for the noise

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100 Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. Isn't that rather like fixing low oil pressure

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo (diet) Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread Kyle Bader
Googling sometimes produces hilarious results. Seriously, I'm looking for any  information/brave hack on using CEPH fs with Gentoo The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and put it in your own

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 23:52:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 15/07/10 02:16, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after the try failed 3 times. how can i configure

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo (diet) amp;amp; Ceph ?

2010-07-14 Thread James
Kyle Bader kyle.bader at gmail.com writes: The two main things you'll have to do is build a kernel with ceph support and then create an ebuild for ceph's userland utilities and put it in your own overlay. If you have any ceph specific questions on implementation or bugs then your best bet

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:04:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 23:52:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:35:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's a laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine. So this evidence also leads me to believe that something happened hardware-wise, though I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's a laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine.  So this evidence also

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 19:45:46 Florian Philipp wrote: Portage relies on rsync for it's emerge --sync. You can add extra command line parameters to the rsync call by specifying them in the variable PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in your /etc/make.conf Take a look at `man rsync` for a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] bash blinking

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:35:43 Jorge Almeida wrote: How can I prevent bash of blinking when running ls -l on a directory with broken links? The thing gets in the way, and it is really unbearable if a directory contains lots of broken links. I didn't manage to google my way around this

[gentoo-user] sys-power/nut-2.4.3-r2 fails to compile driver

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I'm trying to upgrade nut to the latest stable version. I have the driver set in make.conf and according to the website, it is the correct driver. I also while searching around noticed I need to make sure I have the driver in /lib/nut and sure enough, it is there. In make.conf I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-14 Thread walt
On 07/13/2010 08:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The documentation that I've found via Google is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:15 -0700, walt wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:54 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 21:25:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 18:29:58 Mick wrote: akonadi is attempting to update your database structure when it starts. This accounts for any long start-up times you are experiencing. You should try access the db manually (with akonadi