[gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Guys, I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed some of them had some helpful YOU MUST DO THIS steps and i am wondering do they all have those or does emerge cleverly put all the messages at the end where they

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote: Guys, I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed some of them had some helpful YOU MUST DO THIS steps and i am wondering do they all have those or does

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 20:49:08 Stroller wrote: On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:16, Mick wrote: ... I remember that when I hovered my mouse over links in web pages on Konq 3.5, it would show at the bottom of the window the URL that the link in question contained. This allowed me to decide

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.12.2009 00:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: would you recommend it over ext4 for a productive root-fs, considering speed and safety ? just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. hmm, thanks for that thought

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:13:46 Mick wrote: Only other two things that bother me are these: In KDE3.5 when I hovered over files I used to get a preview of their contents in a thumbnail. This was particularly useful with configuration, scripts and log files as it would show the

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:53:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What are the commands to find out if subclipse is supported through an overlay? [r...@zaphod ~ 0]% eix subclipse * dev-util/eclipse-subclipse-bin [1] Available versions: 1.1.9!s 1.2.0!s Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:07:32 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: read /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example and learn how to set up elog. no message is lost ever again. but if haven't done it already, you are out of luck. I thought portage showed all the messages at the end now. --

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 12:27:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:53:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What are the commands to find out if subclipse is supported through an overlay? [r...@zaphod ~ 0]% eix subclipse * dev-util/eclipse-subclipse-bin [1] Available

[gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting from usb), but the installed gentoo linux reports only 904600 kB: # free total used free

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting from usb), but the installed gentoo linux reports only

[gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi as i noticed the directory /usr/portage/distfiles holds all installed sources. What i want to do is modifying the code and reinstalling the package. What is the simplest way? Is it possible without modifying the ebuild? (i dont want to use make and 'make install' directly) Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/30/2009 01:08 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:28:25AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: I thought portage showed all the messages at the end now. Which is great in itself. I just hope the OP has a elog set-up or is not on a console with limited scrollback buffer. :) 102 packages can have quite a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:17:52PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Schwidom squawked: as i noticed the directory /usr/portage/distfiles holds all installed sources. What i want to do is modifying the code and reinstalling the package. What is the simplest way? Is it possible without modifying the

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to the eix database. I think he wants to know what overlay a given ebuild is in without installing the overlay first eix wwon't show the contents of

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] RAM installed vs reported

2009-12-30 Thread Thanasis
on 12/30/2009 01:08 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to the eix database. I think he wants to know what overlay a given ebuild is in without installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:17:52PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Schwidom squawked: as i noticed the directory /usr/portage/distfiles holds all installed sources. What i want to do is modifying the code and reinstalling the package. What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: you can make it even easier: create: /etc/portage/env/PKG_CATEGORY put patch in that directory create file: /etc/portage/PKG_CATEGORY/PKGNAME with this: post_src_prepare() { epatch

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: you can make it even easier: create: /etc/portage/env/PKG_CATEGORY put patch in that directory create file: /etc/portage/PKG_CATEGORY/PKGNAME with

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Dec 2009, at 00:17, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... The only problem I've had since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to fsck it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing SEEMED lost or currupted). Fixed this for you. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 12:27:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:53:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What are the commands to find out if subclipse is supported through an overlay? [r...@zaphod ~

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to the eix database. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. People say this from time to time, yet I have been running

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Zeerak Waseem
The eix-remote -q update command should take care of that. Try running it and searching for something that you know isn't in one of the overlays that you use :-) On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:58:44 +0100, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. People say

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:58:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: but how do I determine that it's in trauma in the first place? As I said in the first post, use eix-remote before eix. -- Neil Bothwick Member, National Association For Tagline Assimilators (NAFTA) signature.asc Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] VIA on-board sound failure

2009-12-30 Thread Holla
Hi, I had been running a mythtv frontend/backend on a VIA EPIA mainboard (mini-itx). Kernel is 2.6.18.9 and gentoo 2006 !! This whole setup was quite stable until I powered down the system for three days recently. Now when I power on I see the following lines in /var/log/message VIA 82xx

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote: Guys, I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has  installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed  some of them had some

[gentoo-user] Re: serial port identification question

2009-12-30 Thread James
David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com writes: Having solved/learned the above on the Gentoo box, the next trick is getting my code to work on the embedded 486SX linux system (non-Gentoo). There is a very exceptional collection of talent on the gentoo-embedded list, that you cannot even

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 10:19:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:13:46 Mick wrote: In KDE3.5 when I hovered over files I used to get a preview of their contents in a thumbnail. This was particularly useful with configuration, scripts and log files as it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 21:33:39 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 10:19:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:13:46 Mick wrote: In KDE3.5 when I hovered over files I used to get a preview of their contents in a thumbnail. This was particularly useful

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 31 December 2009 00:40:24 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 31 December 2009 00:40:24 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:01:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is this documented anywhere? I would like to see how this works, without doing it just in case I mess up. lol Try the eix man page. I know it's almost as hard to read as the mplayer man page, but the information is there. You can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:01:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Is this documented anywhere? I would like to see how this works, without doing it just in case I mess up. lol Try the eix man page. I know it's almost as hard to read as the mplayer man page, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You can't cock it up. If you have eix and layman working (almost everyone here has that): eix-remote -q update eix something tada!! I was like Dale which is why I didn't try it when

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually flushed to the disk, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Dale
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually flushed

Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 31 December 2009 04:17:10 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You can't cock it up. If you have eix and layman working (almost everyone here has that): eix-remote -q update eix something tada!!