[gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-03-25 Thread CJoeB
Hi, I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the iwl3945 driver. I currently am running the 2.6.30-r10 linux kernel and previous to that I ran 2.6.30-r6. For the last 2 kernel builds that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail marking messages Read by itself

2010-03-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:29AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote I now have no idea which of the 4126 e-mails has just arrived, and I don't intend to search for it! Can you sort/filter email by date received? At least that would allow you look at only recent emails. -- Walter Dnes

[gentoo-user] How to request multiple keyword removals Firefox 3.6.2?

2010-03-25 Thread Walter Dnes
Given the seriousness of the latest Firefox hole, I decided that keywording Firefox 3.6.2 ~x86 was less of a risk than continuing to run 3.5.8. However, there were a few ~x86 ebuild dependencies on top of ~x86 ebuild dependencies. My /etc/portage/package.keywords ended up with the following...

Re: [gentoo-user] How to request multiple keyword removals Firefox 3.6.2?

2010-03-25 Thread Justin
On 25/03/10 06:09, Walter Dnes wrote: Given the seriousness of the latest Firefox hole, I decided that keywording Firefox 3.6.2 ~x86 was less of a risk than continuing to run 3.5.8. However, there were a few ~x86 ebuild dependencies on top of ~x86 ebuild dependencies. My

[gentoo-user] default user permissions

2010-03-25 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Hi, Where is defined what permissions will the newly created folder/file have by default? Eg. When creating a folder I would like it to have permissions right after it is created, to void use of chmod/chown afterwards: drwxrwxr-x 2 hinko users4096 Mar 25 09:23 folder1 while now I get only:

Re: [gentoo-user] default user permissions

2010-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 25 March 2010 10:26:25 Hinko Kocevar wrote: Hi, Where is defined what permissions will the newly created folder/file have by default? This is done by the umask of the user creating the folder. Eg. When creating a folder I would like it to have permissions right after it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb CJoeB: Hi, I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the iwl3945 driver. [...] Tonight I, again, following the wiki, tried building the iwl3945 driver

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.6 cannot open folder from the d/l dialog box

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 23. März 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4, ff 3.6. after i finished d/l a file i want to open the folder where the file is saved. but when i do so, firefox says it cannot find an application to open that link. i am not trying to open/launch it.

[gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it looks like version 8.721 supports Xorg-7.x and would thus be more recent than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread ich bins
Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it looks like version 8.721

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:43 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I don't know if it matters, but I am using wireless-extensions as opposed to wpa-supplicant because it doesn't seem that wpa-supplicant supports the Intel 3945 wireless adaptor. IWL3945 and wpa_supplicant are working just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Mick
On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports

[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My goal is to have a German layout with dead keys. In the process I've even gotten the system to react to the menu key again. But apart from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread YoYo siska
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:49:04PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My goal is to have a German layout with dead keys. In the process

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread YoYo siska
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:30:49PM +0100, YoYo siska wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:49:04PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread Crístian Viana
I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag hal disabled :-)

[gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Crístian Viana
hi, when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. here's one example, from valgrind ls: ==10023== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==10023==at 0x55605A4: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so) ==10023==by 0x5560111: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so) ==10023==by

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag hal disabled :-) You're not Dale under cover, are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail marking messages Read by itself

2010-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 25 March 2010 04:30:11 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:29AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote I now have no idea which of the 4126 e-mails has just arrived, and I don't intend to search for it! Can you sort/filter email by date received? At least that would

[gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
hi, when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes stable, and is used in real linux application? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:09:36AM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: hi, when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. here's one example, from valgrind ls: ==10023== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==10023==at 0x55605A4: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 25 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it looks like version

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:31:52PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes stable, and is used in real linux application? F-spot is written in mono. -- Best

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: F-spot is written in mono. oh...what a hell of mistake i made. so, what do people do to manage photos on gnome? i do not like this mono one. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but i cannot find this 'really bad' one on

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 04:09 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: hi, when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. Rebuild valgrind. This usually fixes this.

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes stable, and is used in real linux application? F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Crístian Viana
I think --gen-suppressions may be a too complicated solution. valgrind shouldn't find *any* warnings from the libraries of my system at all. either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. in every other system I try, valgrind runs fine. I rebuilt valgrind, but it

[gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Hi, I noticed something today. I was looking at a image that I took with a camera and it was a bit dark. I think I used Kview in KDE3 and it had a option to adjust brightness and contrast. I can't find that in the KDE4 Gwenview which I guess replaced the other program I was using. So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
100325 Dale wrote: Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast 'geeqie' -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 08:31 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: I think --gen-suppressions may be a too complicated solution. valgrind shouldn't find *any* warnings from the libraries of my system at all. either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. in every other system I try,

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast 'geeqie' I installed it but can't find any brightness/contrast controls. Do I have to do something to enable them or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. I wouldn't doubt it. -- I am a man who does not exist for others. pgpfRllZuHu01.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
100325 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast 'geeqie' I installed it but can't find any brightness/contrast controls. Do I have to do something to enable them or

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 05:36 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. I wouldn't doubt it. There are always errors everywhere :P The problem is you shouldn't see them since

Re: [gentoo-user] default user permissions

2010-03-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.03.2010 09:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Thursday 25 March 2010 10:26:25 Hinko Kocevar wrote: Hi, Where is defined what permissions will the newly created folder/file have by default? This is done by the umask of the user creating the folder. Eg. When creating a folder I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast 'geeqie' I installed it but can't find any brightness/contrast

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes stable, and is used in real linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact. -- Best Regards, David Shen

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100325 Dale wrote: Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast 'geeqie' I installed it but can't find any brightness/contrast controls. Do I have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system). yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact.

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 03/25/10 15:06, Dale wrote: Hi, Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast and maybe some other simple things? Ideas? Thanks. How about the display command from imagemagick (with use=X)? It's smaller than the GIMP, and

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact. Then why are you using GNOME? -- Neil Bothwick Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 03/25/10 15:06, Dale wrote: Hi, Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast and maybe some other simple things? Ideas? Thanks. How about the display command from imagemagick (with use=X)? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:07:41 -0500, Dale wrote: How about the display command from imagemagick (with use=X)? It's smaller than the GIMP, and loads quickly. The interface is a bit clunky, but it might do what you want. Just run 'display [file]', click on the image to bring up a menu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:07:41 -0500, Dale wrote: How about the display command from imagemagick (with use=X)? It's smaller than the GIMP, and loads quickly. The interface is a bit clunky, but it might do what you want. Just run 'display [file]', click on the image to

[gentoo-user] Re: Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Gene Hannan
Dale wrote: Hi, I noticed something today. I was looking at a image that I took with a camera and it was a bit dark. I think I used Kview in KDE3 and it had a option to adjust brightness and contrast. I can't find that in the KDE4 Gwenview which I guess replaced the other program I was

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my system compact. Then why are you using GNOME? so, you mean kde is more

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:07:08 +0800 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i want to keep my

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

2010-03-25 Thread John H. Moe
On 26/03/10 01:49, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but