Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player w/ linux-2.6.39

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2011 23:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just wanted to point you vmware-users to a patch for vmware-modules: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ Built my own little ebuild in an overlay, now vmware-player

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-20 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was no. I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates on code stability (thus no inclusion in the kernel sources) and

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread JDM
There is a profile for gnome I believe. Try eselect profile list which should list available profiles including a gnome. You will need symlinks in USE flags in make.conf to get eselect to work and reemerged world. Not sure how good profile is but sure some gnome users should be able to help.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 14:45, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was no. I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bill. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE Thanks! The reason I ask is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Hi, there are always the

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alan Mackenzie: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and which package uses them. It doesn't accept ctrl-C. ;-( Have noticed that also. *g* Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-20 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor +1 I use it for all my gentoo installations as well. Have even removed windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-20 Thread Indi
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:20:05 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081

[gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

2011-05-20 Thread Mick
Hi All, I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time if e.g. I scroll up or down the page. Only

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

2011-05-20 Thread Stroller
On 19/5/2011, at 11:05pm, Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 23:03:10 Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) Why do you bother at all, then? Use get_iplayer:

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-20 Thread walt
I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5 installed on your machine. A

Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-20 Thread Indi
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to

[gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list! Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' in front of my email server. Here's how I plan to do it: fetchmail (G) -- postfix (G) -- amavisd+spamassassin+database (G) -- postfix (G) --