Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-15 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:24:18 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:07:33 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I ve

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Justin
Dale schrieb: Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available. dispatch-conf works. May want to try them all and pick the one you like.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 15 November 2008 11:04:23 Justin wrote: Dale schrieb: Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files following updates. Can anyone say what tools are currently available. dispatch-conf works. May want

[gentoo-user] Konqueror toolbars broken when started from session

2008-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Some time back, my Konqueror broke. It's sort of in the same time frame as installing KDE-4, but I couldn't swear they are related. I don't get the correct Konqueror toolbars when it's started from a saved session, but starting it from menu, desktop icon or command line works fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:40:25 +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: I do not have collision-protect on FEATURES, portage MUST merge the package even if it warns me... This is my FEATURES line FEATURES=parallel-fetch buildpkg candy fixpackages ccache sandbox You don't have -collision-protect

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:05:22 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files

[gentoo-user] ecasound and lame

2008-11-15 Thread henkg
Hello, Just discovered that my batch recordings weren't recording anymore after updating lame to 3.98.2. It appears like the new lame neds the -r parameter to be present on the command line. So I added -r to ext-cmd-mp3-output in /usr/share/ecasound/ecasoundrc. I hope this is sufficient.

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 15. November 2008 14:13:11 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: How hard was it to hook in emacs-ediff?  It wasn't mentioned in the cfg-update docs I read. Ooops, seems it slipped in accidentally. Sorry for that. The list of supported tools can be found in /etc/cfg-update.conf. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-15 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 15 November 2008 14:27:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:40:25 +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: I do not have collision-protect on FEATURES, portage MUST merge the package even if it warns me... This is my FEATURES line FEATURES=parallel-fetch buildpkg candy

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
Yes, in the same way that disconnecting the warning lamp fixes the low oil pressure problem in your car :( -- Neil Bothwick On 15 Nov 2008, 2:06 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008 14:27:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:40:25 +0200,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-15 Thread Markos Chandras
On Saturday 15 November 2008 16:23:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: Yes, in the same way that disconnecting the warning lamp fixes the low oil pressure problem in your car :( I agree that this is a wrong way to fix it. First of all am gonna fill a bug about amarok and I ll act accordingly Thanks --

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng Vs rsyslog

2008-11-15 Thread Mick
Hi All, Have you experience perhaps of rsyslog and how does it compare with gentoo's default syslog-ng? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Mick
Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? tar

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 November 2008 21:45:04 Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? rsync -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 02:45:04 pm Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? What's wrong with gentoo-wiki.info? As for backup yes tar is good, but how about

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has works so far. Thought about doing a cron job but that

[gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by the pointer shaking, moving back and forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per second). The worst problem

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:55 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by the pointer shaking, moving back and forward one or two

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:55 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 November 2008 22:55:06 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by the pointer shaking, moving back and forward one or two

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Albert Hopkins schrieb am 15.11.2008 22:15: Yes. What you need to do is write your own mouse driver. Call it 'crappydrv'. In this driver, you detect events sent by the mouse, but then simply ignore them. HTH, -a :D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008 22:55:06 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. Usually this manifests by

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:55 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
if it is a usb mouse, disconnect it. Or unload the driver. It is PS/2. And if I compile the driver as a module (presently it is built-in) and unload it while X is running, wouldn't the module refuse to unload (as it is being used)? -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. If the mouse not brand new, then it may be full of dust and dirt - assuming it has moving parts at all (i.e it's

[gentoo-user] Binary package cruncher?

2008-11-15 Thread Simon
Hey there! I've purchased a linode some time ago because my hardware is very (*very*) old and it was taking very long to do updates. Now, what I've done is I've setup my linode to be exactly the same as my host, portage-wise. And on the linode, I have installed the sum of all packages

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

2008-11-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 15 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: if it is a usb mouse, disconnect it. Or unload the driver. It is PS/2. And if I compile the driver as a module (presently it is built-in) and unload it while X is running, wouldn't the module refuse to unload (as it is being

[gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Lots of good input... thanks. I did try `cfg-update' but I thought it was really slow. Ditto for etc-update which I tried some time ago. What made me ask about this was that I was beginning to think my home made perl script was too slow and wondered if there was something a little more

[gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup back/up/to It has works

[gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I figured out I have an nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine simple, cp -auv paths/you/want/to/backup

[gentoo-user] install problem

2008-11-15 Thread chloe K
Hi When I try to install, it always hangs seem not bring up xwin or might be other issue 1/ how can I set the xwin parameter when booting up? 2/ how can I identify the problem In the website. it is only showing nox nofb thank you

[gentoo-user] install problem

2008-11-15 Thread chloe K
Hi When I try to install, it always hangs seem not bring up xwin or might be other issue 1/ how can I set the xwin parameter when booting up? 2/ how can I identify the problem In the website. it is only showing nox nofb thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.552-r1 is blocking xorg-server

2008-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I can't figure out how to fix this. emerge ati-drivers gives this: [ebuild N] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1 USE=acpi -debug 74,042 kB [blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) I'm trying to modify the ebuild:

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Wang, Baojun
在 2008-11-15六的 18:38 -0600,Dale写道: Harry Putnam wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread jaeyoung lee
rsync is nice way On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? -- Regards, Mick -- Only freebsd openbsd

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

2008-11-15 Thread jaeyoung lee
look this http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html?sid=e44c9527cf38ebd470151d1452478d82 On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote: In my latest update I have received the following message: !!! Multiple versions

Re: [gentoo-user] install problem

2008-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
081115 chloe K wrote: When I try to install, it always hangs seem not bring up xwin or might be other issue 1/ how can I set the xwin parameter when booting up? 2/ how can I identify the problem In the website. it is only showing nox nofb I'm sure users would like to help you install Gentoo

[gentoo-user] .mov files not showing video

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Moore
Hi, I received a few quicktime files from a friend; however, when I play it there is no video. The audio stream is fine. My friend can play it fine in the application Media Player Classic for Microsoft Xp. The interesting packages are % emerge -pv libquicktime mplayer These are the packages