Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread Pupino
2009/9/21 meino.cra...@gmx.de: walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-21 19:36]: On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com  [09-09-21 02:32]: On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramerl /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: cleaner shutdown.  This is taken from a email that was sent to me during that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Pupino
2009/9/19 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest to have a look at which services are started at boot,

[gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

2009-07-07 Thread Pupino
Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling validating authentication. The packages involved in the upgrade that might be responsible (imho) are:

Re: [gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

2009-07-07 Thread Pupino
2009/7/7 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:58:23 +, Pupino wrote: Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling validating

[gentoo-user] Can't mask a package

2009-07-02 Thread Pupino
Hello everybody, i'm having troubles with the policykit package, and i've discovered that the new version (0.92) has broken all APIs and this causes some packages to not compile anymore (network manager in my case). So i tried to mask it and keep the 0.9-r1 version instead, but with no result.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mask a package

2009-07-02 Thread Pupino
2009/7/2 David da...@pythontoo.com: Dale wrote: Pupino wrote: Hello everybody, i'm having troubles with the policykit package, and i've discovered that the new version (0.92) has broken all APIs and this causes some packages to not compile anymore (network manager in my case). So i tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread Pupino
Hi, I have no clues about cross compiling and bootloaders other than grub (ok, maybe lilo) but if you want to determine if that device is seen as a storage device why don't you just plug it in and have a look at dmesg? when I plug a usb key on my machine i see something like this: [ 1647.577443]

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Pupino
2009/2/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest failure on net-firewall/iptables?

2008-12-07 Thread Pupino
2008/12/7 James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ran a pretend update on one of my boxes, and this was spit back: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies /!!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.4.0-r1.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-30 Thread Pupino
So tomorrow i'll try to find out wich one is guilty and try find a remedy... (now it's 3 am, i'm a bit tired...) i'll post back. Thank you all for the quick help! Davide I found that i had accidentally enable the full debugging output of my wireless card in the kernel, so that was where

[gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Pupino
Hi all, i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near 1k per minute. I have just few programs running and none of them should save that much information on the disk. Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Pupino
2008/11/30 Dio, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near 1k per minute. I have just few programs running and none of them should save that much information on the disk. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Pupino
2008/10/31 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Pupino
2008/10/31 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:47 +0100, Pupino wrote: But i read this after building alsa-lib: * Please try in-kernel ALSA drivers instead of the alsa-drivers ebuild. * If alsa-drivers works for you where a recent kernel does not, we want * to know

[gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Pupino
Hi all, i was used to intall alsa-lib and co. and use tools like alsamixer to manage the audio on my gentoo; now i've tryied to switch to the in-kernel way. I've built the relevant part into the kernel, no module, but now i'm stuck. If i try to emerge alsa-utils (wich has alsamixer) it pulls in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants to downgrade packages

2008-09-16 Thread Pupino
Hi, generally there's nothing wrong in downgrading packages and means that the version you're using has been masked for some reason. You should check if the version you currently have is masked for your architecture. If yes emerge is ok and that's a normal behaviour. You can check that here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling Hald services

2008-06-22 Thread Pupino
2008/6/22 Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *Ward Poelmans [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: 2008/6/21 Norman Hakim : Yes,i can the icon but i cannot open it,after i click it nothing happen. Is it i have to Run mount and dmesg using terminal? i'm using Gnome desktop manager,the id stated is

Re: [gentoo-user] FrireFox3 behaving badly :)

2008-06-22 Thread Pupino
2008/6/22 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since upgrading to firefox 3, FF has started behaving badly. If I click on a link in say evolution in one desktop, with FF open in another, FF will jump to the desktop where I clicked on the link. This is quite off-putting to suddenly have FF

[gentoo-user] MPX in gentoo

2008-06-15 Thread Pupino
Hi all, I was trying to get MPX, (the multi pointer X http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/ ) , working but I get no result. Anyone knows if it's already in the latest xorg-x11 (7.3) or just in the git of xorg? And parhaps does anyone know a guide to install/configure it? Thanks in advance to all.

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Pupino
2008/6/8 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: deface wrote: tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything that needs rebuilding. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,

Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking

2008-04-30 Thread Pupino
Hi, have you tried running revdep-rebuild? it should fix this problem... is in the gentoolkit package HTH Davide 2008/4/30 Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skype /opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad no longer working

2008-02-16 Thread Pupino
2008/2/17, Michael J. Barillier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The touchpad on my Acer laptop has stopped working in X after a recent `emerge -uD world'. Looking through emerge.log doesn't indicate anything hardware-related. The touchpad shows up in dmesg: , | Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw:

[gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

2008-02-14 Thread Pupino
Hi all! I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed script, in any case. Here's the output of tail /var/log/messages Feb 14 14:04:10 spaventapasseri acpid: received event button/power PWRF 0080 0004

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-users] acpi fails with status 1

2008-02-14 Thread Pupino
2008/2/14, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pupino writes: I'm trying to use acpid with my gentoo laptop; it catches all events (battery, button, ac_adapter) but it can't execute the designed script, in any case. [...] the script is called and it will simply display Power button

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Pupino
2008/2/3, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-31 Thread Pupino
2008/1/31, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:56:30 +0100 Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia drv working is: 1) make sure the open src nvidia drv is not built in-kernel or as kernel module

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-31 Thread Pupino
2008/1/31, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:18:40 +0100 Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/31, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:56:30 +0100 Pupino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-30 Thread Pupino
All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia drv working is: 1) make sure the open src nvidia drv is not built in-kernel or as kernel module: Location: - Device Drivers - Graphics support - Support for frame buffer devices (FB [=n])

[gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Pupino
Hi all, I've got a weird trouble with Xorg... At boot Xorg is loaded (it's in the default runlevel) but it does not load the nvidia driver, but if I restart it from the command line (without any change in the config) it works and loads the module normally... What could the trouble be? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module

2008-01-29 Thread Pupino
any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Yes! I've found this: (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) that is the only error reported... But this suggests me nothing... I've looked at eselect and nvidia is the opengl interface... revdep-rebuild tells it's all