Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Stępień
As far as I can see there is no chance neither to get my Radeon to cooperate with open source driver nor to turn on AIGLX with my fglrx, at least at the moment of writing. It's a pity, but allow me then to return to the secondary topic of this thread. Is it possible to enable some kind of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Who does save my screen? (xorg-server-1.2.0)

2007-01-27 Thread Martins
On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:41, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After updating up to xorg-server-1.2.0 after ~10-15min somebody turns my monitor off as I have configured this or that screensaver. But I have not changed anything at all. Where to dig in? Andrew maybe this one in

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'

2007-01-27 Thread Martins
I'm having the same problems. ati-drivers insists on using X.org-7.1.0.0 or earlier, obviously because the drivers were compiled against that version. I don't have the ati-drivers source code so I can't tell if there was an ABI change that the driver enforces, or if ATI simply hardcoded the

[gentoo-user] It is Bugday time once again!

2007-01-27 Thread Alexander Færøy
Hi All! In one week it will be time for our monthly Bugday event! This is a reminder for you to buy your girlfriend some flowers, pay your parents to clean your room and make sure you have power for the computer and the net cable is plugged in! Join #Gentoo-Bugs on the Freenode IRC network and

[gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs,

[gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of Gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:16, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use, but I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Dale
Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 08:58 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: [...] Is it possible to enable some kind of a chooser which would allow me to choose whether I'd like to launch Xgl or Xorg? While working on my /usr/share/gdm/default.conf I've spotted a server called 'chooser'. Could you tell me what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at kdenlive for

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): A chooser in the GDM/XDMCP sense is a program that lists available hosts to log into (via XDMCP). Thanks. It may be useful some day. Why should you need to write anything. Forget GDM and if you want to run X then type X [ENTER]. If you want Xgl then Xgl [ENTER].

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:06 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: [...] I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl. If you'd like to read any details you can take a look at first posts of this topic. Then you probably don't want

[gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Stępień
Hi everyone, Despite being a Gnome fan, I've been using few KDE apps, such as Amarok and Kile. I've emerged them on my Gentoo desktop with a Gnome environment. Unfortunately I'm not able to force a KDE apps to display Polish diacritical characters (e.g. ć, ł, ę). All I can see instead of them are

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): $ startx /path/to/program/that/needs/X.org -- /usr/bin/X $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xgl or whatever. There's probably a dozen other ways to do it. See the startx man page for details. Thanks, I'll take a look at the manual and give it a shot. Regards, Jan -- Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:48 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: Hi everyone, Despite being a Gnome fan, I've been using few KDE apps, such as Amarok and Kile. I've emerged them on my Gentoo desktop with a Gnome environment. Unfortunately I'm not able to force a KDE apps to display Polish diacritical

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:48:20 Jan Stępień wrote: Despite being a Gnome fan, I've been using few KDE apps, such as Amarok and Kile. I've emerged them on my Gentoo desktop with a Gnome environment. Unfortunately I'm not able to force a KDE apps to display Polish diacritical characters

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:49, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. Editing would be nice, but not

[gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons!

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter the only way? - Grant On 1/26/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really appreciate

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/27/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: -Original Message- From: Gabriel Rossetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 January 2007 22:24 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch yes, I have that, but I had that before in my previous

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:13:28 am Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? HAL and DBUS are wonderful tools with KDE. They tend to be problemmatic at times though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Jan, on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 15:06:32, you wrote: I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl. I reckon most in America's army would love to have your problems. SCNR! =^ Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
I really appreciate all the advice. I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I guess I'll let that complete. Once it's done, how can I move the data back over the network to the reformatted laptop? Well, tar|ssh simply done the

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hossa. I had no idea about these settings in make.conf or about eclean. I apologise for not having read the proverbial manual thoroughly enough. One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp?

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:38, Grant wrote: All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter the only way? Please try not to top

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 January 2007 17:11, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:13:28 am Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? HAL and DBUS are wonderful

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter the only way? Please try not to top post in this ML. Sorry about that. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Rollin
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp? Many people have an extra partition for /tmp that is mounted noexec to give people less

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:51:48AM -0800, Grant wrote: and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/27/07, Jeffrey Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp? Many people have an extra partition for

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jan Stępień wrote: In my USE flag unicode is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Dan Johansson
On Saturday 27 January 2007 19:31, Mick wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 17:11, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:13:28 am Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Would it be ok for me to email you off list to get some help with a new setup of Shorewall that I did? It would be, but i am not sure if i can help you, because i have dropped shorewall and i am no firewall expert. I would suggest you to look at the shorewall guides at the shorewall homepage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:23 -0800, Grant wrote: All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the laptop after reformatting it. The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:09:22 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh hack. And as your laptop's drive may not be trustworthy, I'd run rsync a second time, immediately after the first.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Redmann
After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? I remember that I had to recompile kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves after hal and dbus upgrade to make the automount feature in kde work again ... maybe you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:05:18 +, Jeffrey Rollin wrote: I would add that since /tmp is often cleaned on boot-up, /var/tmp is considered a less temporary place than /tmp. For example, if you hose your /opt/foo directory, then assuming you have an appropriate version of /foo in

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
Hmmm - sounds like its seen 868 read/write errors. However to advise you better we need to see the output. I suspect it is huge because there are error details for each of the 868 errors. How about post the first 200 lines of the smartctl output to the list? Here are the first 91 lines. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the laptop after reformatting it. The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Grant
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed? I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-27 Thread James Lockie
Richard Watson wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to my wireless. My problem is that although rc-update show

Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour

2007-01-27 Thread James Lockie
b.n. wrote: Hi, I have an external USB hard drive that is giving me troubles about half of the time. Symptoms are the following: - Writing a large file very often stalls for a few seconds and is overall slow (sometimes VERY slow, that is half an hour/gb) - Trying to start a vmware image on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did just try chrooting into my laptop's /dev/hda3 copy on my desktop system with: chroot /home/grant/hda3 /bin/bash and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3 image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list ... that could also possibly explain why vim is dying, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Kent Fredric
I did a fresh format and install with the GTK installer from a LiveCD and on the second boot errors are detected in the file system. I guess it's over for this drive? If its within its warranty, send it back and ask for a replacement. Make sure try get a technical explanation of what exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Well - although says its passed - if you run any of the self-tests I would expect to see a change to 'failed'. You might want to run the 'short' or 'long' tests (-t short or -t long)