[gentoo-user] Warning for ~arch users: tar-1.15.92

2006-10-14 Thread Richard Fish
Hi guys, Just thought I'd send out a warning about this bug for anybody that hasn't noticed it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151146 Aside from broken binpkgs, you could also have broken backups in some cases if you use tar for that. FYI .92 is now masked, and there should be a fix

Re: [gentoo-user] root on EVMS, evms_activate, checkroot, rw/ro mount, gah

2006-10-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/13/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start by presenting some info about my system. You'll find the actual problems (numbered) in the middle of this message. I have my root file system on RAID 1 I use an initrd image to get my system going. The image was simply

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-driver dependencies problem

2006-10-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/14/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today when I did an emerge --sync and emerge -uDvNp world I'm getting the following error message: Calculating world dependencies | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10 have been masked. Add --tree to see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/11/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay - silence! At this point you may want to try the patch that you found on the forums. Unfortunately it doesn't apply cleanly against 1.0.13, and the original patch author

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!

2006-10-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did emerge -p --depclean and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal? xorg-x11 is just a

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a gentoo box setup as a router with 3 servers behind it (all 4 servers are running gentoo). Right now I simply have port 5901 to forward from the router to my vnc server so I can access it remotely. I've looked on the gentoo forums and

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could post your .asoundrc for me to have a look Unfortunately Intel's HDA isn't really a sound card, but a standard way of talking to sound cards. The actual chips are made by

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to 80%

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/9/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye candy :) and everything works pretty good. The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to 80% for intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Richard and Mauro, but this wasn't what I was looking for. The vnc and the ssh server are not the same. ssh port forwarding is not limited to just the machine you are logging into. It will forward the connection to another host.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400481: Stereo Pincap 0x08324: IN Detect Pin Default 0xb7a00100: [Fixed] Mic at Oth Mobile-In Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown Pin-ctls: 0x00: Power: 0x0 Hmm, your laptop has a built-in microphone?

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ssh -L localhost:5901:vnchost:5901 routerhost Ok, how can I do that with putty? I don't use putty, but I believe pretty much the same way. You should be able to enter vnchost

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to 80%

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you *really* want eye candy, try using beryl and emerald from the portage-xgl layman overlay. ;-) Yes, I investigated it. But it seems my card is not so well supported by XGL (If you have different experiences let me know) and XGL eye candy

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to 80%

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I seem to be a bit confused with my bug reports [1] and stuff I've read elsewhere. But google around a bit for xcompmgr and read what others are saying, and consider that xcompmgr hasn't seen any significant work in over 2 years [2

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried using arecord and got the following error matt# arecord -d 10 cd -t wav -D copy test.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM copy It doesn't know what device copy is. Try something like: arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but can as ext2

2006-10-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |dmesg | tail or so This was good advice | # fsck.ext3 -p /dev/hdd | fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdd | /dev/hdd: Should

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing on Thinkpad X41 Tablet

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/5/06, Henk Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I go into the shell, I can see that /dev/sdb1 and /newroot both exist, and manually running mount /dev/sdb1 /newroot/ (with and without -t vfat) gives the same error message: mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /newroot/ failed: Invalid argument Hmm,

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/5/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would this need a GNU-specific flag? Aren't these things some level of POSIX? (I'm only guessing; FSF may well have added one or two, and I want to know either way). From the ctype.h header file: /* ISO C99 introduced one new

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/1/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: modules_eth0=( dhcpcd ) This is the problem. By specifying the modules explicitly, you have told Gentoo *not* to use ifplugd. Either comment it out like the .example file recommends, or use modules_eth0=( ifplugd dhcpcd ) -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM problem

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/30/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect it is related to the framebuffer. I have killed X and tried it from the console, but it still crashed when it resumed. You'll probably have better luck getting resume to work in X...but again, what video chip/drivers are you usingalso

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT overheat] How to cause shutdown on overheat

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Sep 30 04:41:32 2006 ... reader kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Sep 30 04:41:32 2006 ... reader kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM problem

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/30/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 08:52, Richard Fish wrote: On 9/30/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect it is related to the framebuffer. I have killed X and tried it from the console, but it still crashed when it resumed. You'll probably

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 with lvm

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unable to shutdown: /dev/vg/swap After some analyzing, I know it happens because the open count of /dev/vg/swap is 2 when the script /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm-stop.sh is executed. Maybe this is the problem of baselayout or my

Re: [gentoo-user] reverse dependencies

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, kiorky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i want to know a good tool for reverse dependencies stuff. for example, gnutls broke my system yesterday but revdep or equery dont took me all impacted packages. But a ldd on the impacted program show me my soname (libgnutls.so.*) so i want to

Re: [gentoo-user] new foomatic-filters ebuild

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Nick Geron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why the 3.0.2-r1 ebuild is blocking the current, stable foomatic-db? [blocks B ] net-print/foomatic-db-20050910 (is blocking net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.2-r1) I discovered this just before I did an update world. I can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tried all the variations, not that it is the exact command. I was also very pissed off when I had to discover that the find manual page isn't very correct. It never made clear that -ctime 3 means now plus 3 days and -ctime -3 means now minus 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: -mtime -2 - files modified in the last 2 days...the period between 0 and 48 hours ago. Point taken! Thanks for the clarification, Richard! And just to show that this is really hard to describe correctly...I screwed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID, they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right? Well I don't own one of these things, but it looks like the SATA stuff goes through the JMicron chip, while

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new system and I've noticed that xorg-x11 isn't emerged as a dependency of mozilla-firefox or xfce4, although neither of them will run without it. Can anyone tell me why this is? This is because of the change to modular X. xorg-x11

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID, they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right? Well I

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/27/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gentoo router with eth0 connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router) and ath0 connected to the LAN. It works perfectly. I've added two ethernet cards and I'm trying to connect from another machine to one of the new cards (eth1 and eth2). ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/28/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I do emerge -Dav sys-apps/baselayout It pulls in baselayout, python, perl, openssl (clearly the last two are not needed or related to baselayout) Not true at all. With the right USE flags, baselayout depends on coreutils, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/28/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0 is connected to the WAN (DSL modem/router), and ath0, eth1, and eth2 are all meant to allow other systems to connect to the LAN via DHCP. Should I be configuring eth1 and eth2 as 192.168.0.1? No. Consider the case where your system needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/25/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i) as to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there is a third choise: CONFIG_DRM=n and emerge x11-drm; Yes, that is also an option, although I generally prefer the in-kernel drivers if they support my hardware and

Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/25/06, Marc Blumentritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on one of my machines elog saves messages in /var/log/portage instead of /var/log/portage/elog ? The funny thing is, that it worked first. What does grep PORT_LOGDIR /etc/make.conf* report? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] RTC, is it needed?

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/25/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Not sure if I need RTC built in my kernel. This is the error I get when I boot up: The PC rtc is used by some applications (fex: vmware) to provide a timer interval greater than the system timer interval. If your system has an rtc, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/25/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a bug in the new version of Portage. Perhaps someone should report it: it's not a high priority for me. I'm on portage 2.1.2_pre1-r1, and logs are still appearing in /v/l/portage/elog/ for me. So I'm really thinking this

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/25/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I can, how can I best sift through them? Is there a utility, or something I could drop into a simple bash script, that would look at the first few bytes of the file and, say, identify it as a jpeg or an xml file, so that it could be given an

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

2006-09-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/24/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # CONFIG_DRM is not set If you want DRI, you have two choices: 1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver. For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in your kernel configuration. This doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed raid

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/23/06, Jesper Fruergaard Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looked around but cannot find any information about if or how this can be fixed. Is it possible to fix the superblock or force it in some way. I guess maybe they may be out of sync so the filesystem could be invalid if forced to

Re: [gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/21/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas? Can you post the output of: carcharias rjf # cat EOF | grub --batch root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) EOF -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/23/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall seeing any replies to my original post, so I figured it must have gotten lost. As for the Xorg log, I don't have one to post - if I had, I would have posted the pertinent portions rather than describe the problem. You can see

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc weirdness as a user, works as root

2006-09-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed tightvnc on a relatively new system and find that mouse clicks are not being registered (both using the browser and vncviewer clients). Occurs with both the fluxbox and twm window managers. The mouse cursor moves over the

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to AMD Sempron 3300+

2006-09-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, list! I just upgraded from Athlon xp 1700+ to Sempron 3300+ and of course I have some questions. ;-) I'm not sure which is the least problematic way to recompile my gentoo in way that the software would be able to utilize the 64bit

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'eth0: link down' This line in dmesg means that your hardware saw the cable disconnect. You should be able to see this effect by running ethtool eth0 | grep Link. There is nothing that Gentoo can do to cause this...it is purely between the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will give a brief description of my problem (unfortunately I no longer have the pertinent logs) We really need to see /var/log/Xorg.0.log to have any good ideas here. That log will contain a lot of output from the drivers about what it

Re: [gentoo-user] update: Re: eth0 link down

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map BTW, this drm stuff is completely unrelated...it has to do with your graphics card. What's going on? We had another clevo portable running gentoo and this happened about (3) weeks ago. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/19/06, Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to ban this person so easily? bugs.gentoo.org is the right place to report this. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147673 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/19/06, Alon Keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My aim is to have the ability to regularly build and maintain completely customized Linux systems. This should be possible by using your own local portage tree (probably based initially on Gentoo's tree) that you update somewhat manually with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ULI-Raid1 to work

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Roman v. Gemmeren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So i was wondering if anyone else got it working or has any suggestions to get it working? Can you use mdadm to create a linux software raid volume instead? Then it will keep working forever, no matter how many different systems you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get Java 1.3 SDK ebuilds...

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, According to eix -I sdk only SDK versions from 1.4 upwards are available for installation. I might need 1.3 SDK variants too for maintenance of old product versions (it is not THAT simple to get a customer to upgrade :-), so - are there

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, As soon as I upgraded my system to new gcc and glibc, I started to get a very weird problem at boot time. I'm using libnss-mysql to authenticate users, and my nsswitch.conf is set to check files first, then mysql. Can you post your

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency. Am I setting myself up for interference problems? Probably not. I use a wireless mouse with my laptop all the time and notice no problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new glibc and libnss

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a look over there, and udevd doesn't start. An strace shows it trying to open libmysqlclient on /usr, and as it's not mounted, it fails with that Inconsistency detected error. Well there is a known issue [1] with udev and rules that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it operate on 2.4Ghz RF? Hmm, I thought so, but I just double checked, and no, it operates with 2 channels at 27.045Mhz. Sorry, not much help here... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:18:09PM -0300, Penguin Lover Mauro Faccenda squawked: Why doesn't it say gcc-4.1.1? had you defined that you want to use gcc-4 with gcc-config? of course. That is what I did: 1) gcc-config 6 (after which gcc-config

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --info

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/18/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did follow the guide and did source /etc/profile. I just forgot to type that step in in composing the e-mail. And I have a .bash_history to back me up ;p Sorry, although we aren't psychic, so we can only base responses on what you _actually_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard what do you make of the fact that I cannot connect to cups with the normal http://locahost:631? Actually, you connect to it fine, it just has nothing to show you... Will get a connection, but in the past a simple:

Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I guess that means your xorg.conf is obsolete. x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati provides a radeon driver rather than an ati driver. So the Driver should be set to radeon also... Actually, xf86-video-ati will provide ati, r128, and radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel.pid_max

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # sysctl -p error: Invalid argument setting key kernel.pid_max You can find the answer in /usr/include/linux/threads.h. PID_MAX_DEFAULT is defined as 0x8000 (32768) for most systems, and PID_MAX_LIMIT is set to 4194304 *if* longs are larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Boring new startup look with baselayout 1.12

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the OP is suggesting this: Script A startsprint nothing Script B startsprint nothing Script B succeeds print script B [ok] Script A succeeds print script A [ok] You could also fill in the ok/failed status as things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if this is related or not, but for some reason, my resolv.conf keeps getting modified, causing samba to fail. I open it and all that is in there is the domain, no name servers. The reason is noted in net.example: # Setting

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/17/06, Mauro Arnoldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use XGL and an ATI video card. I can't get Direct Rendering working (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/17/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bug covers exactly that issue, pass it on to Mauro if you like. I think you just did... ;-) Thanks, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/16/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked up

Re: [gentoo-user] custom ebuilds

2006-09-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I recently noticed a keyboard problem (ctrl left arrow moves a word to the _right_ when using the numeric keypad) and now have a patch for GTK, specifically file gtk+-2.8.19/gtk/gtktextview.c. What's the best way to create a

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI event - thermal_zone TZ1

2006-09-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Every time the fan on my laptop starts I get this in the log: ACPI event unhandled: thermal_zone TZ1 0081 The fan works fine with respect to automatically switching on at two different speeds when the CPU gets hot/hotter and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I'm sorry it seems I've really wasted lots of your time here. However I don't think this is the only problem. I really hope there is not some other moronic user miconfig... np. I missed it too for several messages. :-) I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something isn't working as planned. There were no files produced in /tmp. Odd. Where does /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb point to? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ls -l /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb lrwxrwxrwx [...] /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb - /usr/bin/smbspool Ok. Are you specifying a ServerBin directory in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? It should point to /usr/libexec/cups if you are. Also, I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/15/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: case $group in button) case $action in power) /sbin/init 0 ;; You need to add a sleep case here to do whatever you want to happen when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DEVICE_URI=smb://reader:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chub-print) And *now* see the problem. There should absolutely positively *not* be a ')' at the end of this line. You need to fix printers.conf to remove this. Sigh...so much work for such a

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system. The cpu instructions are forward (but not backward) compatible. Thus, I did not think it necessary for a wholesale rebuild of the entire system on the spot. Indeed it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile failure: fox-1.2.6-r3

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 04:56, Richard Fish wrote: echo ~x11-libs/fox-1.2.18 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords Replace ~x86 with ~amd64 if you are on the amd64 arch. Or just remove it all together: Thanks Bo. I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling OpenOffice 2.0.3

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, Xavier MOGHRABI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I try to compile OpenOffice and the compilation failed with that message : /usr/bin/ar rv uconvmsg/libuconvmsg.a uconvmsg/uconvmsg_dat.o /usr/bin/ar: création de uconvmsg/libuconvmsg.a a - uconvmsg/uconvmsg_dat.o Inconsistency

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 endlessly

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to compile the rest...? In short: If you want help you really should provide more info about what you have done and where you didn't know what to do...! In addition to what Bo said, you have a lot of broken .la files. More than likely,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: State Stopped I'm guessing that this is your problem. What does lpc status report? Does cupsenable chub-print help? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First let me show that a connection is definately in working order: Hmm, do you get something similar if you do: DEVICE_URI=smb://reader:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chub-print export DEVICE_URI /usr/bin/smbspool 0 reader test 1 0 /etc/fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, do you get something similar if you do: DEVICE_URI=smb://reader:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/chub-print export DEVICE_URI /usr/bin/smbspool 0 reader test 1 0 /etc/fstab Well, that tried to print something at least. Somekind of stepping

Re: [gentoo-user] Update or Install again? Testing vs. stable?

2006-09-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/13/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a tremendous amount of time, months, to setup all of these packages; maintenance of the system also demands not only a fast network connection, but also a lot of time. It's not going to be easy to reinstall this system in it's current

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes notifications perform much much better IME

Re: [gentoo-user] borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obediently, albeit with trepidation, I added nptl and nptlonly to my USE flags and restarted the emerge. The immediate result was a complaint that CHOST was incorrect, and that = i686 was required. Indeed, I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] borked gcc

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169677 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169844 Bah, 169844 is not the one I wanted to link to. I wanted this one: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/169894

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile failure: fox-1.2.6-r3

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/12/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there are a few package, which do not compile after I did the step to gcc-4.1.1. The first of those packages is fox-1.2.6-r3. There are a number of packages that require the ~arch version to build with gcc-4.1. Most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/11/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mount fails: $ mount /dev/sda mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] Not even a sound of silence...(longish)

2006-09-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apps, which need output of sound (kaffeine, mplayer...) seem not to miss anything (no Permission denied or /dev/* : No such device). and act normally -- with no sound at all. Hmm

Re: [gentoo-user] Live dvd?

2006-09-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/10/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's hardly anyone sharing it Just let it send in pending for awhile...eventually one of the main seeders will become available to you. FWIW, you reminded me that I needed to restart ktorrent... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Are these packages safe to unmerge?

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 September 2006 00:09, Toby Cubitt wrote: If depclean has listed the packages, I'm fairly sure that means portage couldn't find anything in system or world that depends on it (or anything that depends on something that depends on it,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lightning ~ # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardened [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopie [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp [5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednossp [6]

Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: change CHOST in make.conf /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system emerge -e world Me thinks the mail list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -eav system failed building sandbox

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/9/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it doesn't take too long, please, what is 'multilib'? I have a full 32-bit chroot on my system since AMD64 doesn't support flash, etc. Could this be related to that somehow? Maybe. Put simply, multilib is the feature of portage that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More ebuild failing (install step)

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would be a real problem for install, as it would result in the source tree being removed and recreated...obviuosly in an unconfigured and uncompiled state. This is odd, and I'm still looking

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt works too. Adding a package without keyword will imply unstable host arch (cf manpage) : Ah, ok thanks. I hadn't noticed that...probably because I generally dislike implied behavior. Apologies to A.R. -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? No, just remerge the packages that need to be remerged. Then emerge the rest with gcc-4.1 when updates come. Why do you advise people to ignore the

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12 breaks net.lo

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I don't seen how these packages can be marked stable. I switched to baselayout-1.12.4-r7 and it works fine. I did have to edit some config files because of some changes in the way the networks are started and such. It was /etc/conf.d/net

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm upgrading my gcc from 3.x to 4.x. I've done the gcc switching, and now I'm updating my system. The recommended steps are: # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world While emerging my system I received a message suggesting I run

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard for the inside dope - he's the resident gcc expert around here :-) :-P -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the GCC upgrade guide before without problems, but now I'm scared. Is all the trouble because of how Gentoo works or how GCC works? What is the trouble like? Packages that won't compile, or different things breaking in the system?

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change logs? Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to solve a security bug [1] [2]. up with 4.1.20 I think

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