Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, On 10/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active. If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it. well DRI in on and working: display: :0

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Iain, I think it can depend on the driver. With some versions of ati-drivers, the CPU is used to help the GPU, and I get great frame rates. With other version of ati-drivers (including 8.28.8 and 8.29.6) the cpu usages stays low for all 3d, and I get crap framerates... don't know if this

[gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Dale
Hi, I did my normal sync and then got a list of packages to upgrade. It fails on app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 with the following: checking if gcc supports -Wno-pointer-sign... yes configure: *** *** You need libgpg-error to build this program. ** This library is for example available at ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 11:19, Dale wrote: [ snip] *** ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error *** (at least version 1.4 is required.) [snip] *** ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/ *** (at least version 0.9.3 (API 1) is required). *** configure: error: *** ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Both libraries you have are one version behind. DEPEND in the gnupg-1.9.94 ebuild says it wants at least the version you do have, but it's ./configure says different. This is a bug, you should report it. Meanwhile a workaround is to simply emerge the versions of the

[gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Looks like the tree was busy over the weekend :-). My regular sync and emerge world this morning results in just about every x11 package wanting to be rebuilt. Lots of stuff like this: [ebuild R ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.2 USE=X%* -debug 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 23:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Both libraries you have are one version behind. DEPEND in the gnupg-1.9.94 ebuild says it wants at least the version you do have, but it's ./configure says different. This is a bug, you should report it. Meanwhile a workaround is to simply emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 12:04, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 28 October 2006 23:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 12:25, Dale wrote: After looking through my package.keywords and package.unmask file, it may have been a setting on my end. I usually keyword or unmask specific versions which can catch up to me sometimes. I seem to recall having to add those when KDE 3.5 came out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.94 fails to emerge.

2006-10-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: It certainly is a bug in the ebuild: The ebuild requires versions x or later The package itself requires versions x+1 or later So the ebuild needs to be modified. Go on, file the bug and take the credit :-) alan OK. I reported it. It's just that most errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I think I have something more basic (i.e. hardware-related) than that. I've tried installs of Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva Linux with the same result, and both Lilo and Grub fail. I'm going to take out the raid card tonight and step down to a single drive and see if I can get around the issue

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 October 2006 11:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, Looks like the tree was busy over the weekend :-). My regular sync and emerge world this morning results in just about every x11 package wanting to be rebuilt. Lots of stuff like this: [ebuild R ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.2 USE=X%*

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app?

2006-10-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:50:21 -0700 Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with Live365, but I listen to radio (http://kplu.org) and similar streams off the Internet sometimes, and I find that mplayer is more than up to the task, including dealing with pls files. e.g. $

[gentoo-user] Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules for this that they'd be willing to share? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 14:02, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: 1. What's causing these packages to have an X use flag at all? 2. Why use such a flag at all? These are X11 packages, seems kinda pointless to compile such a thing without X11 support... The x-modular.eclass now inherits the

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread F.J.Zhao
Why not to use mknod? mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0 mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1 mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2 ... chgrp disk /dev/loop* 2006/10/30, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine it's

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, at 15:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: all, and none so far use that flag directly). I'll even predict money that the new binaries are identical to the old ones. yes, they are identical. Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu cycles and time. A

[gentoo-user] What is the new!shiny! way of changing the java environment for a script with java-config-2???

2006-10-30 Thread local account for liebichw
Hi, I'm a JAVA programmer use gentoo linux to test my apps against as many JDK versions as I can :-). With java-config V1.x I could change the active VM inside of a script with the line eval `java-config -P jdk-name`. This no longer works - what IS the new preferred way to switch the JDK

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the new!shiny! way of changing the java environment for a script with java-config-2???

2006-10-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 October 2006 14:39, local account for liebichw wrote: Hi, I'm a JAVA programmer use gentoo linux to test my apps against as many JDK versions as I can :-). With java-config V1.x I could change the active VM inside of a script with the line eval `java-config -P jdk-name`. This no

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help with Evolution-2.6

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife's mouse went crazy again last night (grr), and now she's lost some of the components in her Evolution GUI, and I cannot figure out how to get them back. Her message preview pane (lower right hand corner of screen) is gone, as is her Window button bar (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Memos,

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules for this that they'd be willing to share? alan Do you

[gentoo-user] dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread James
Hello, Usually when installing a portable, I leeave the windows and resize the disk space to set up gentoo as the second OS with grub.. On one portable, The windows XP was a pain so I nuked it and got gentoo working first. Now I need to install XP on the portable, but do not wish XP to

[gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11 javadoc I have Cntrl+C on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m 1064 S 0.3 59.7 8:52.11

Re: [gentoo-user] dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
you just have to rerun grub setup. On 10/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Usually when installing a portable, I leeave the windows and resize the disk space to set up gentoo as the second OS with grub.. On one portable, The windows XP was a pain so I nuked it and got gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:01:12 -0600 Michael Sullivan wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: killall = kill The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 15:05, F.J.Zhao wrote: Why not to use mknod? mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0 mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1 mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2 ... chgrp disk /dev/loop* Because this is a udev only machine and I want udev to create the nodes. If I have to, I'll put the commands in a script to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Monday 30 October 2006 21:57, Harm Geerts wrote: Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel? udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device support Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig:261 Location:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 16:57, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules

[gentoo-user] Net.eth0 is hesitant to start

2006-10-30 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I have recently done my routine System upgrades etc, and suddenly my wired ethernet port on my laptop is very hesitant to start -- I plug it in (or put it on the dock) and issue the start command /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start And it starts to bring up the interface, and just sits there

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 15:21, Sascha Lucas wrote: Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu cycles and time. A better solution must exist - if this moves to arch unchanged the gentoo user base will go ballistic from portage pkg_postinst: -- In

[gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread james
Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: you just have to rerun grub setup. H, If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the option to reboot the gentoo, then run grub setup? something like this for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 17:49, Novensiles divi Flamen wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 21:57, Harm Geerts wrote: Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel? udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules Symbol: BLK_DEV_LOOP [=y] Prompt: Loopback device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 18:11, james wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: you just have to rerun grub setup. H, If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the option to reboot the gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox2.0 can't start up

2006-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:46:11 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: I guess during the 10 minutes,firefox was checking the plugins. But the time is too long and there is no any tips! Does this happen each time you start Firefox 2.0? There was a delay when I first ram FF2, although nothing like 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:11:39 + (UTC), james wrote: If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the option to reboot the gentoo, then run grub setup? Run it from the live CD. -- Neil Bothwick What is a free gift ?

[gentoo-user] Re: ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 October 2006 09:52, GEORGE ZERVAS wrote: Μιχάλη, αυτή την περίοδο δεν έχω ADSL γραμμή, γιαυτό δεν επικοινωνούμε. Ελπίζω σύντομα να αποκατασταθεί η σύνδεση. Διέκοψα την παλαιά και έκανα αίτηση για καινούργια φθηνότερη. Θέλω την άποψή σου, να ζητήσω σταθερή IP, χωρίς επιπλέον

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. These broken files are text, and say they're not to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Hans de Hartog
Mick wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 09:52, GEORGE ZERVAS wrote: Μιχάλη, αυτή την περίοδο δεν έχω ADSL γραμμή, γιαυτό δεν επικοινωνούμε. Ελπίζω σύντομα να αποκατασταθεί η σύνδεση. Διέκοψα την παλαιά και έκανα αίτηση για καινούργια φθηνότερη. Θέλω την άποψή σου, να ζητήσω σταθερή IP, χωρίς

[gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm

2006-10-30 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
I am puzzled why gkrellm does not always report 100% usage when I'm running tasks that --- I assume --- always have at least one process in the runnable state. I've never seen gkrellm pegged at 100%, even when I run 3 or more emerges (with MAKEOPTS=-j2) at the same time. (I have a single core

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird mysql problem.

2006-10-30 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I was unable to locate one specific, but there are quite a few problems. It has to do with a slight change in the MySQL API. - Neil On 12:54 Sun 29 Oct , Bartlomiej Syryjczyk wrote: Neil Hodges napisal(a): Hello, This problem is well-known, and present in the bugzilla. The

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Hans de Hartog
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I'd wait hold off on --newuse for a day or two if I were you... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43805 It's not that bad. I started 90 minutes ago for 94 packages and it (2.6 GHz Celeron with 768Mb RAM) is busy with number 78 (xorg-server). --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2006 17:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 16:57, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Hans de Hartog
Mick wrote: Indeed! Why when I just hit Reply to a message, I end up posting it in the gentoo-user mailing list?! This has happened a couple of times so far. The strange thing is that on some of these cases the messages were not even sent to my gmail.com account. A common theme may

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:54, Mick wrote: Indeed! Why when I just hit Reply to a message, I end up posting it in the gentoo-user mailing list?! This has happened a couple of times so far. The strange thing is that on some of these cases the messages were not even sent to my gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:05, Hans de Hartog wrote: Mick wrote: Indeed! Why when I just hit Reply to a message, I end up posting it in the gentoo-user mailing list?! This has happened a couple of times so far. The strange thing is that on some of these cases the messages were not

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:48, Hans de Hartog wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I'd wait hold off on --newuse for a day or two if I were you... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43805 It's not that bad. I started 90 minutes ago for 94 packages and it (2.6 GHz Celeron with

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU percentage reported by gkrellm

2006-10-30 Thread Dale
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I am puzzled why gkrellm does not always report 100% usage when I'm running tasks that --- I assume --- always have at least one process in the runnable state. I've never seen gkrellm pegged at 100%, even when I run 3 or more emerges (with MAKEOPTS=-j2) at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-30 Thread Hans de Hartog
Hans de Hartog wrote: It's not that bad. I started 90 minutes ago for 94 packages and it (2.6 GHz Celeron with 768Mb RAM) is busy with number 78 (xorg-server). Done! In less then 2 hours (rebuild of openoffice takes at least 11 hours). However, before each unmerge I got: QA Notice: ECLASS

[gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-30 Thread lanjelot
but what if package isn't merged yet ? expl: how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup. it's something i've been wondering for a while and i just thought it could fit in this thread even though the poster got the answer to his question. thanks all Leandro Melo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 29 October 2006 23:50, lanjelot wrote: but what if package isn't merged yet ? You might try http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:50:30 +0100, lanjelot wrote: but what if package isn't merged yet http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl?action=home -- Neil Bothwick Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ADSL CONNECTION PROBLEMS

2006-10-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:42, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Don't know about the rest, but the send later feature has hit me in the past, too. What can happen is that a message you suspend with send later actually gets sent automatically after a few, if, in settings-configure

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, everyone! I decided to activate the portage ELOG system. I can't make portage send mail or write in the syslog. save appears to be the only working PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM - it saves log files in /var/log/portage for the emerge activities. The settings relevant to ELOG in my make.conf are:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-30 Thread kashani
lanjelot wrote: but what if package isn't merged yet ? expl: how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup. it's something i've been wondering for a while and i just thought it could fit in this thread even though the poster got the answer to his question. thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Bryan Whitehead
If you are so concerned with the awesomeness of XFS's caching... why not turn on data-journaling? Then data (not just meta-data) is committed to the journal. You can also tune XFS to not wait so long to hold cached data. Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Bryan Whitehead
After sending this I realized that XFS doesn't support journal=data... I thought journal=data was a general VFS part of the linux kernel... my bad. :) I guess you are just left with in kernel tuning (someone previously posted a link to). Bryan Whitehead wrote: If you are so concerned with

[gentoo-user] Re: SNMP Security

2006-10-30 Thread James
Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: I am using Cacti on a firewalled production server to do all manner of system monitoring and metrics. I would also like to setup SNMP on my development servers that sits behind a firewall at a different data center. Is there a way that I can securely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SNMP Security

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: I am using Cacti on a firewalled production server to do all manner of system monitoring and metrics. I would also like to setup SNMP on my development servers that sits behind a firewall at a different

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-30 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/30/06, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After sending this I realized that XFS doesn't support journal=data... I thought journal=data was a general VFS part of the linux kernel... my bad. :) I guess you are just left with in kernel tuning (someone previously posted a link to).

[gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Garton
Anybody know if this is possible? I have a single-head graphics cardcapable of doing 2048x1536. I want to start X with a virtual desktopof 2048x768, make my ViewPort be the left half of said desktop, startx11vnc using the -clip option so that it only shows the right half of said desktop, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with Evolution-2.6

2006-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 08:52 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife's mouse went crazy again last night (grr), and now she's lost some of the components in her Evolution GUI, and I cannot figure out how to get them back. Her message preview pane (lower right hand corner of screen) is gone,

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: 24135 root 16 0

[gentoo-user] Re: GStreamer volume control problem!

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi. In order to document this problem, I solve it installing media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa package. Thanks anyway. []s Leandro 2006/10/30, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list... I configured alsa system and it detected my sound card. Alsamixer can control the volume as well

[gentoo-user] Re: dual boot: XP installed last?

2006-10-30 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If I install XP in the partition and it writes over the MBR, then, upon reboot, how do I get to grub.conf so I have the option to reboot the gentoo, then run grub setup? Run it from the live CD. Ok here's what I did in case anyone else has to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with Evolution-2.6 [SOLVED]

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:03 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 08:52 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife's mouse went crazy again last night (grr), and now she's lost some of the components in her Evolution GUI, and I cannot figure out how to get them back. Her message

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:05 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:01 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For

[gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list... I have an usb sound system from Gradiente company (an eletronic device factory) and I plugged it on my system. dmesg command shows this: input: Gradiente AS-M5X0 as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Device [Gradiente AS-M5X0] on usb-:00:1d.1-1 But when I play a

[gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-30 Thread lanjelot
i'm amazed by how reactive you people were, eix -S was actually what i was looking for for so long. thx heaps! kashani wrote: lanjelot wrote: but what if package isn't merged yet ? expl: how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup. it's something i've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems - Success

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Nice suggestion. I pulled the RAID card, and moved the remaining SATA card from SATA4 to SATA1. I then was able to successfully install Mandriva Linux (quickest distro to test) with no grub startup problems. By proceeding step-by-step with reinstalling the RAID card, I should be able to figure

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Henk Boom
On 30/10/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and kill -9 pid doesn't touch. For instance, this is taken from top: 24135 root 16 0 229m 35m

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/30/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list... I have an usb sound system from Gradiente company (an eletronic device factory) and I plugged it on my system. dmesg command shows this: input: Gradiente AS-M5X0 as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi... The device is configured and I type cat xxx /dev/sound/dsp1 and I got an strange sound, but this prove that the device was recognized by the kernel. I also can control volume of the second audio device through alsamixer. The question is: how can I specify (on alsa) that the default device

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, After I click on Apply button the Alsa Device Configuration section become enabled, but when I specify hw1,0 in Stereo text field and play a song amarok shows the message: Audio output unavailable; the device is busy.. /proc/asound/ # ls ASM5X0 Modem card1 cardshwdeposs seq

Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED) Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-30 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi... just to document. There are two options: 1) I created ~/.asoundrc file (as suggested by Richard) but with some modification as shown next (I don't know if all this option is necessary, but the sound is perfect): - ~/.asoundrc pcm.card0 { type hw card 1 } pcm.!default

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 19:50, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I checked a number of them, and they were clearly orphans: the libraries they were associated with originally had ceased to exist, which makes sense because they where also coordinated with KDE versions (3.2 and such) that I no longer