Re: [gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jun 2010, at 03:56, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:28:14AM +0100, Stroller wrote On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: ... The MSI motherboard has PS/2 ports (YES!!!) so I don't have to tearfully throw away my genuine IBM PS/2 "clickety-clack" keyboard. Your m

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last > > Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some > > pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:29:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Why on earth will xorg-x11 *NOT* build if I mask out various arabic, > cyrillic, ethiopic, and jis fonts? My PC is *NOT* intended to be a > kiosk machine at UN headquarters fer-cryin-out-loud. > Because xorg-x11 is metapackage that

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-25 Thread Remy Blank
Remy Blank wrote: > Some version info: > > xorg-server-1.8.1.901 > xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 > udev-149 > gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 > > Has anyone seen anything similar? Any idea how I could either work > around the issue or debug it? I have tried strace but couldn't extract > any meaningful

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to >> justify that for me as well ;-) > > 5 copies of Win7 running in vmware VMs. Each VM gets 20GB of RAID0, > 2 processors and 4GB of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-25 Thread James L
> Remy Blank wrote: > my laptop powers off by itself after a few > hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue, > but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen > went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for > ~30 seconds,

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

2010-06-25 Thread Remy Blank
James L wrote: > Turn off all power management software. > My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up > crashing it. Thanks for the suggestion. The only "power management software" that I have installed is the cpufreq ondemand governor, which shouldn't use the power sa

[gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is regularily loosing link. Reproducible in various different networks. At home, my wlan ap is about 2 meter away (within the room), so link quality (currently 53) shouldnt be the problem. Does anyone know what could cause the problem ? # c

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger >>> How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to >>> justify that for me as well ;-) >> >> 5 copies of Win7 running

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Christopher Swift wrote: > Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG > parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to > use en_GB as a backup instead of the default en_US? gettext allows to specify fallback languages: http://www.gnu.org

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/20/10, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > For some reason, the latest x86 stable p7zip wants to force me to remove > > 'odbc' from wxGTK. This seems wrong, and I'm masking it out for the moment, > > but I'm wondering what justification there is. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_b

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 24.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Mark Knecht: >>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger How do you use up 24 gigs of DRAM? Just tell me, I would like to jus

[gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-25 Thread Mick
Any idea why hal is taken out from pmount? [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pmount-0.9.23 [0.9.20] USE="crypt (-hal%*)" 342 kB -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-25 Thread rocwhite168
Bill Longman gmail.com> writes: > > Yikes. Sorry, I didn't look back through the thread. > > Did you notice that you have an extra zero in your CONFIG_PHYSICAL: > > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100 > # CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100 > > The default is 0x10

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount without hal

2010-06-25 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:50:26 +0100 schrieb Mick : > Any idea why hal is taken out from pmount? > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pmount-0.9.23 [0.9.20] USE="crypt (-hal%*)" 342 kB > A quick look at the ChangeLog reveals: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313389 Yes, HAL is on its way out :) !

[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 22:17:39 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies. e17

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) > > > cu no bundled libs. when you change the tarball fucking change the versio

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 23:57:54 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > > > Comments welcomed :) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-25 Thread Dale
rocwhite168 wrote: Bill Longman gmail.com> writes: Yikes. Sorry, I didn't look back through the thread. Did you notice that you have an extra zero in your CONFIG_PHYSICAL: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100 # CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100 The default is 0x1