Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/30/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' documented? I cant find any

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/30/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When this was complete I ran grub using the commands grub root (hd0,8) setup (hd0) quit My understand of the above is that the root (hd0,8) says place the second part of grub on /dev/sda9 (drive 0, partition 8) while the second says place the

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading them. But if I understand this correctly, isn't modules.alias generated by depmod? And isn't module dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules selected) but in menuconfig untick: Loadable module support --- Automatic kernel module loading I don't believe this will work. This is specifically for when the kernel recognizes

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/29/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading them. Just tried that, and doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. The modules are loaded when /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh runs udevtrigger, which goes

Re: [gentoo-user] No dri with xorg-x11-7 and ati card

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/27/06, Ptitjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eselect opengl set ati Ati Radeon as module Driver radeon Are you trying to use the open-source driver and (new) DRI module in the kerrnel, or the ATI opengl implementation? Because right now you are mixing the ATI and the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Vmware win starting in safe mode

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/27/06, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here running vmware workstation know how to start winxp pro in safe mode with vmware? Just like with real hardware...F8 after you see the BIOS screen disappear. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] email netiquette

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/26/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Outlook makes it damn near impossible to properly quote and trim a message when replying. Actually, it does *NOT* - at least not, when you're composing text/plain mails, as you should. Which version of outlook

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created? The idea is that / can be a very small partition and contains everything necessary to boot and administer the system, and /usr can be a separate partition or logical volume. Some advantages

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Richard. BTW, on this list it is considered polite to quote messages above your replies (no top-posting), and to trim the quoted message down to just the necessary parts. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...

2006-04-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/21/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I do about slocate 3.1/2.7 ?

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/21/06, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09:09 Fri 21 Apr , Jules Colding wrote: emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/slocate-2.7-r8 to / !!! Files listed in the manifest do not exist! slocate-3.1.ebuild files/digest-slocate-3.1 omc-2 ~ # su -c ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Christopher E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to get into the system with the current setup that is the strange thing, I am NOT using the liveCD any more, I am booting using GRUB, it loads the kernel and then it prompts me for a root block device and then I enter /dev/sda6 ---

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not using GRUB, but I think that the way GRUB reads disks has very little (if anything) common with linux. Not only it gives different names to disk-partitions, grub is like mini-OS, which uses its own routines. It can be that

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: No. both grub and lilo work through the system BIOS. Neither can 'see' things not provided through the system BIOS. Are you absolutely sure about lilo? Checking the source and the README in the source of 22.7.1 makes

Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 (which I don't have installed)

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/20/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this error: You masked out the versions of php greater-than *or equal to* what you have installed, so portage naturally wants to downgrade the version. Plus, exim only has these version available: * mail-mta/exim

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did it in the correct order. He's rebooted into Linux (sans LiveCD) and says he has network. I'd still like to know how if /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is pointing to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, how does AFAIK both net.eth0 and net.eth1 should be

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the key. Wait, it worked before under Linux? I don't think you mentioned that previously. Was this on

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs update an kmail

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi after kdelibs, kwin update i got this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so.4) for some time i switched

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with grub. grub detected /dev/hdd,

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg: Getting xconf.org out of the XServer ?

2006-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/17/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it seems that X uses some internal xconf file if no is supplied. Is there a way of telling X Hey, dump the configuration to a reuseable file! ? X -configure -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/17/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I plug it, tje following entries are added to dmesg : usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 6

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists, i've followed the gentoo prelink-howto (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) and everything went well during setup. I've also set KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 in /etc/env.d/99kde-env to inform KDE about the prelinking (and not

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank, Richard - I shall follow you advice. You chose the following I presume? - kernel sources [gentoo-sources] I'm using suspend2-sources (notice the 'suspend2' in my kernel version), but gentoo-sources should work also. Everything else is

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, i run etc-update. I've also added that KDE_FORK_SLAVES option but with no results. No, not 'etc-update', 'env-update'. That is the command that takes all of the /etc/env.d/* settings and rolls them into /etc/profile. When you run 'env',

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 13441 1.4 0.5 24348 7240 ?Ss 22:41 0:00 kdeinit Running... 13446 0.2 0.5 24608 7636 ?S22:41 0:00 klauncher [kdeinit] 13524 1.5 0.9 32244 12336 ?S22:41 0:00 knotify [kdeinit] AFAICT, this is

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Unfortunately there have been no responses on my question below - since most likely none of us have faced/solve this bloody problem before. A conflict between mc and ln [part of coreutils] would be fatal to my system - I would

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/15/06, Rohit and Bhavana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there anyone on the list who has the following configured on their workstations? * bootsplash giving them a nice picture at the startup [ in runlevel boot] * bootsplash giving them a nice picture later [ in

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 unwanted autoconfiguration *Resolved* I think...

2006-04-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/14/06, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it does. Really? Following Renat's advice I checked all my initscripts called from 'boot' or 'default'. Not a single one relies on net working. syslog-ng has a Oops, I didn't actually read the script, just saw the output from

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/13/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just: cd /var/db/pkg emerge --unmerge --verbose --ask kde-base/*-3.4* Yeah, that should work too. Somewhere along the way I got in the habit of putting things in for loops, and now I don't know how to stop :-( -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/13/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find out what I loose by disabling specific flag ? equery uses pks shows general info only. If you are exceptionally lucky, grep -e ^kde -e :kde /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc will tell you what it does, or you can determine this from

Re: [gentoo-user] insufficient emerge -t output

2006-04-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Mantas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ebuild N] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.4.2.1 USE=kerberos ldap ssl -debug -doc -ipv6 -krb4 -nntp 13,900 kB Do you have evolution installed? If so, that depends on lots of gnome stuff. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. USE flags turn on optional support (and dependancies) in packages. So

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I so appreciated the help from Richard!Thank you for telling me to add the alsasound to starting in default level.Now i have sound! My pleasure. But i still don't know how to deal with my network problem. This is my /etc/con.d/net: # This blank

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on LVM vs JBOD

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think JBOD (just bunch of disks) is a name for some simple sort of multi-disk array, where disks are just joined into one volume, without any stripping/mirroring. It is actually even simpler than that. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +0800 (CST) wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config_eth0=( 222.20.45.71 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 222.20.45 255 ) There's a dot missing right before the last 255. Nice catch! -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 and eth1 configs flip flop

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Kenton Groombridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I can do to ensure that it associates the correct module with the correct eth? Your best choice is to write udev rules for them. A google for udev ethernet rules should get you started. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/12/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for the next question. How do I get my system to load kde 3.5 instead of kde 3.4? Take a look in /etc/env.d. You should have both a 46kdepaths-3.4 and 45kdepaths-3.5. If so, then running 'env-update' and logging back in should be all you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick vnc question..

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone! I'm looking for a little app called vncconfig--everything seems to point that this should be a part of RealVNC's package, net-misc/vnc. Unfortunately, it seems that the package is only the viewer, when I need the server

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, wcw84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I updated in my second gentoo to gcc 4.0.2 and glibc2.4,and emerge -e system emerge -e world and etc-update and update all the file.And when i reboot,error occured:udev-event[1731]:find_free_number:%e is deprecated will be removed and is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install - no /usr/share/zoneinfo dir.

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Anthony Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am in the middle of a fresh install, using the latest 2006.0 install disk. I am just about to emerge genkernel, and have got to the stage where I have to link the relevant /usr/share/zoneinfo time zone to /etc/localtime, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm (X11): touchpad OR usb-mouse?

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I can't go much into practical details, I've no use for this, personally :-) For X11, this can also work, if you use the synaptics driver in X, since you can have your rule call syn-client to modify the TouchpadOff setting. HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] woe is ftpd!

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems I can do simple tasks ls, cat, nano, mount, etc. But calling on the authorities leads to disaster :^( Oy, hope you made a backup recently :-( -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/11/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you comment out the line: Load glx in xorg.conf, do you still get the crash? No. X starts now. But glxgears segfaults. So it is definitely opengl related. What DE do you normally run? KDE, Gnome, ? It seems to me that one the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get a good backtrace from X?

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with the latest NVidia drivers: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127824 Are there any way for me to get the maximum amount of debug information out of the X crash so that I can help the developers fixing it?

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp/php wont build mysql configure failed

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, compress with bzip or use bugzilla for this kind of issues/attachments. I'll take the blame for this, since I asked Michael to post it. Sorry all. I should suggested either to compress it or send it to me privately. -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages I like are blocking a package I don't want? (kdebase)

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the kde meta-packages because I didn't want to be burdened with stuff I didn't need. Unfortunately, I had to add these packages to /etc/portage/packages.keywords in order to get them to install and everything was fine for about 2days.

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages I like are blocking a package I don't want? (kdebase)

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ebuild U ] media-sound/amarok-1.4_beta3 [1.3.9] Now that I look closer, I think this is the problem. amarok depends on (kde-base/konqueror or kde-base/kdebase) and (kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves or kde-base/kdemultimedia) I am guessing you

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault follows emerge ftpd

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel Bug at fs/reiserfs/file.c:620! invalid operand: [#1] Badness in do_exit at kernel/exit.c:797 Segmentation Fault My initial guess is that your filesystem is now corrupt. Try fsck.reiserfs (or fsck.reiser4 if you were crazy enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages I like are blocking a package I don't want? (kdebase)

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I tried using --tree --verbose earlier. Strangely enough, it looks like KPDF is requiring this. I alread have Konqueror installed: Ok. I am getting lost in the maze of the kde-functions and kde-meta eclasses, but I think this is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *sigh* Why is there always something breaking? Maybe a ~x86 system just isn't for you * Dependancy info is missing! Please run * #/sbin/depscan.sh * to fix this. This message is generated by /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-services.sh. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I do that when I don't have networking?! :( You should not need networking, unless your distfiles is on a network filesystem. But even if you do, you can bring it up manually with dhcpcd or ifconfig+route. If it is wireless, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages I like are blocking a package I don't want? (kdebase)

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why oh why haven't these meta packages been unmasked yet? They work just fine. From a recent discussion on -dev, the 3.5.2 versions could be unmasked soon. The previous versions were just too buggy to consider infliciting on the stable users. BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, once again I thank you for your knowledge. Maybe a ~x86 system just isn't for you I didn't realize ~x86 was going to be such a headache. When I first installed gentoo, I read a lot of debates on the list and most people said

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
What did it? In /etc/portage/ just one file, the package.keywords contains nvidia-kernel. What exactly does /etc/portage/package.keywords contain? It should be: media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. Well glad to know it's not anything that couldn't be rebuilt. It seems that 'baselayout' did that for me. Yep, merging baselayout touches /etc/init.d, and runs depscan.sh in the post-install steps. I guess another case where things could

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting closer to narrowing this down. One of the problems is that /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh has been yanked from me in some nvidia ebuild update. Grr. Do this instead: - #

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/10/06, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx emerge -av =nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 =nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-r1 FYI, if you read Daevid's original posting from Mar 29th, these are the versions where he first encountered this probelm. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp/php wont build mysql configure failed

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/9/06, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please check config.log for more information. The config.log file can be found in /var/tmp/portage/php-5.1.2/work/php-5.1.2/config.log. You can look there for clues, or post it here if you need

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp/php wont build mysql configure failed

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/9/06, Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This awfully sounds like a bug in autoconf, because just before the mysql stuff it checks for msql, and finds out that the support is broken (and doesn't barf on that!), but still tries to link against libmsql later on in the autoconf run. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/9/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard The problem is that there is no ebuild for kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 it is not a ~x86 problem. Ah, sorry, I missed that. But the problem still remains that you need to add extra stuff to package.keywords. kdebase-meta-3.5.2 can

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.5.2 emerge error

2006-04-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/8/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade to kde 3.5.2 specifically because my current KDE was installed with emerge kde-meta I have added the appropriate dependencies to /etc/portage/package.keywords No you haven't. package.keywords doesn't get applied

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine problem

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/7/06, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for glXCreateContext in -lGL... no configure: error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a is present on your system. This prevents linking to OpenGL. Delete the file and restart configure. I don't have a libGL.a anywhere on my system. It is a static link

Re: [gentoo-user] System bell (again)

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recompiled my kernel and now the system bell plays . . . but as root only. I tried to add myself as normal users to the following groups: root, sys, adm, tty, console with no results. Is your user a member of the audio group?

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Rafael Bugajewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So eclipse sdk is what you WANT. :-) I think the ebuild names let people misunderstand some things... Actually, it is the eclipse project itself that has made this so damn confusing. Take a look at their About Us page, and try to find

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, go moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, why 'emerge package digest' try to download the file instead of creating the corresponding digest file? The command you wanted was 'ebuild'... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla adding/removing lines in text

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how it is possible but when I connected a monitor to my laptop, after restart, every font was about 2px bigger and the problem was visible. Ahhh...sounds like X is detecting your display size and adjusting your DPI to match. Try setting

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Answers are out of order...as they will make more sense that way... On 4/6/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what's this all got to do with ftp? Nothing at all. But you were not running an ftp _server_ on the machine you were trying to connect to. I think it has already been

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, go moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, excuse, it was 'ebuild package digest' which try to download the file. Ok, well I don't see how this could happen with libXext. However with other packages this might occur if you don't have all of the source archives downloaded. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Fredrik Tolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I'm having a bit of a problem with LVM2 on Gentoo. Can you please the output of: 1. dmesg 2. grep -v -e ^ *#.*$ -e ^ *$ /etc/lvm/lvm.conf 3. grep -v -e ^ *#.*$ -e ^ *$ /etc/modules.autoload.d/kerrnel-2.6 4. lsmod -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla adding/removing lines in text

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and it's happening again... I inserrted DisplaySize in Monitor section with size in milimeters as it was in man xorg.conf. The one other thing i can think of to try is to use the command line option to force 75x75 dpi. If you are using kdm, edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Tv out stopped working!

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there nobody out there who has experience regarding to this topic. I googled a lot to get it working and until now i don't find anything out why it doesn't work anymore! I have no experience with tv-out, but you should take a look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it is the eclipse project itself that has made this so damn confusing. Take a look at their About Us page, and try to find anywhere that it mentions an IDE. It is actually a development platform for building IDEs, or other

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want to upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: server portage # cat /etc/portage/package.mask =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 You did the opposite of what you wanted to do...you masked out only the current 6.8 version. What you want is: =x11-base/xorg-x11-7 However, I doubt there will be any

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/6/06, Fredrik Tolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll give you the data you requested anyway, though. Please tell me if something is strange. Actually, I forgot a question, that is what version of baselayout are you using?. There are 2 possible race conditions that I see in your current setup:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/5/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 04:48:39 -0700 (PDT), go moko wrote: ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/libXext* -rw-rw-r-- 2 root portage 248688 Feb 16 19:34 /usr/portage/distfiles/libXext-1.0.0.tar.bz2 It looks like this is the problem I agree,

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/5/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then why on earth don't you quote actually _useful_ data for us to help you, i.e. the command you issued when you get that error? from the archive: snip Did the OP try something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/5/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Mick's benefit I used a variation of this command variation != *exact* Most likely you have an error on your command line. Prove us wrong. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hald and dbus daemons

2006-04-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/5/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone start the hald or dbus daemons, and if so why? They are used for desktop integration of removable media. So when you plug in your usb flash drive, you get a nice icon on your desktop. If you do not care about that, then you do not need

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download

2006-04-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/4/06, go moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure it's not a dependency? Try emerge -pD libXext to get a list of everything that is needed to build and install that library. dcm No, I've checked that. And libXext is just an example,

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/2/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks richard. is it safe to have compiled half a system with gcc 3.3 ubt to be compiling new packages with 3.4? No, that's a very bad idea. It should not be necessary to rebuild the whole system with the new compiler, but you should at

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the version of libstdc++.so which is linked to determined by the compiler currently in use as determined by gcc-config? Yes. is it not possible to have different programs run against different versions of c++ shared libraries? Different

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla adding/removing lines in text

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I tried... but it's not a solution. :( Can anyone tell me how to check what is causing this? I've seen this beforebut I also can't remember how I solved it. My first guess is something in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. Mine contains: include

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: skype seems to be linked to libstdc++.so.6. (its a binary) would it hurt to switch to gcc3.4 just to compile libstdc++.so.6 so that skype has something to link to, and then switch back? You can definitely do this. You can install gcc 3.4

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a system with gcc = 3.4, opera is linked against both libstdc++.so.5 (from the distributed binary) and libstdc++.so.6 (from natively compiled libraries) but this does not seem to prevent it from running. You've gotten very lucky. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've gotten very lucky. There is a reason that opera provides separate downloads for systems with libstdc++.so.5 and .6. Try searching their forums. So would it not be a good idea for portage

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel and harware

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm curios where to find what hardware each kernel version supports, I have always found lwn (www.lwn.net) to have very good coverage of the changes between kernel versions. I'm not aware of any comprehensive list of supported

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as you had the hal USE flag set when you emerged KDE, it should detect the device and offer to mount it for you (KDE 3.5 has an option to mount it automatically). You may need to fiddle with the settings in the Storage Media section of

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote Are you running this as root? Yes. I always emerge as root, since my ordinary user isn't in the emerge-group. So basically this: 1) su - root 1.1)

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0/eth1 detected, but wired network is eth1...

2006-04-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/2/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what is eht0, wifi? Can I somehow change network detection so that eth0 is wired-ethernet, and eth1 that other network (probably wifi)??? Most likely eth0 is your wifi card. You can write udev rules to set whatever device names you want. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with nVidia GeForce4 440 Go

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/30/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's strange as the screen goes blank like it wants to start, but instead of seeing the KDE loading screen like I normally would, it just bails out to the console again with those backtrace and signal 11 error. Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/1/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to install skype, it wont start, and in the logs it tells me it cant find libstdc++.so.6, which doesnt surprise me because it doesnt exist on my system. im using gcc 3.3.5 and im guessing that libstdc++.so.6 is libstdc++.so

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with ifplugd

2006-04-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/1/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anybody use ifplugd successfully? I have had it working with my last 3 laptops. Probably what is happening is that the interface needs to be up in order for mii-tool (or ethtool) to work correctly. Try adding the following to

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone has one of these Core Duo Processors? How do they perform? Benchmarks I've seen on the web _does_ show that they perform better then a 2G Pentium-M. Excellent. The benchmarks are not lying, and when it comes to something like compiling,

Re: [gentoo-user] requested to report: emerge bug

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/28/06, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The symlink is there, pointing to: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3 This profile was obsolete long ago. It is now removed. You can upgrade to the current profile with: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer and I had to replace it. So I purchased a

Re: [gentoo-user] What program produces message like these?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcs7' class_uevent - name = vcs7 class_device_create_uevent called for vcs7 CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'vcsa7' class_uevent - name = vcsa7

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! Well, everybody has different needs/tastes. Frankly, I wouldn't even want to _touch_ something with a 12.1in screen. ;-

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