Re: [gentoo-user] driver for ATI RAdeon HD3650

2008-04-25 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: What would be the best driver for a ATI RAdeon HD3650 graphic interface ? Preferably Open Source. Thanks for sharing your experience Sorry if stating the obvious, but have you already tried this guide?

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-25 Thread Net Warrior
Well, thanks to all of you. I've been playing with flags nad seems to do almost what I want. To be the firts time I install gentoo, anyway, things didi not seem s to go the way I wanted, or at least the way I expected to be. For example, I installed xfce4, following the guide in the handbook,

[gentoo-user] --as-needed in LDFLAGS - hot or not?

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi, I was wondering what people's opinions are wrt. --as-needed in LDFLAGS these days. I read the (somewhat dated by now?) guide and corresponding tracker bug, and while it seems that the majority of packages works correctly these days, there still seem to be some occasional problems. Just

[gentoo-user] Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-25 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Paul Sobey wrote: How can I troubleshoot this? I've tried re-emerging, revdep-rebuild (doesn't rebuild anything), re-emerging kdemultimedia-kioslaves just in case, and now I'm out of ideas. In your $HOME/.kde/share/config directory, search for a file or file(s) called something like

Re: [gentoo-user] --as-needed in LDFLAGS - hot or not?

2008-04-25 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Hoffstaette wrote: | Hi, | | I was wondering what people's opinions are wrt. --as-needed in LDFLAGS | these days. I read the (somewhat dated by now?) guide and corresponding | tracker bug, and while it seems that the majority of packages works

[gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
I was at my folks house earlier this week. My mom's machine was set up quite a long time ago and hadn't been updated in at least a year - maybe two. I wasn't even aware she was using Linux. I simply set up a machine, gave her an account and walked away. she told me a few days ago she was using it

[gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Mark Knecht wrote: Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking everything? Sync does update profiles, which includes removing old ones that are no longer supported. I would't go as far as saying it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Anno v. Heimburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking everything? Sync does update profiles, which includes

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking everything? Profiles are stored in $PORTAGE_DIR/profiles, so they do get removed during a sync if they are no

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Joseph
# eselect profile list follow this guide to update profile: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3 and: # emerge -uDNav world that should work. -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7 On 04/25/08 10:39, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip I ran emerge --sync which ran correctly as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I tried that and had some problem. don't remember at this point what it was. Anyway, since it wasn't clear I could fix it in a few minutes I brought the machine home with me so maybe this weekend I can find some time to fire it up, fix the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. I tried that and had some problem. don't remember at this point what it was. Anyway, since it wasn't clear I could fix it in a few minutes I brought the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking everything? Profiles are stored

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-25 Thread b.n.
Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: On Thursday 24 April 2008, 18:54, KH wrote: USE=-ipv6 -ftp emerge -av mplayer To the OP: this is exactly the kind of thing that should be avoided. Yes, but also tell the OP that the correct thing is to edit /etc/portage/package.use appropriately... m. --

[gentoo-user] net-misc/nxserver-freeedition conectivity and router

2008-04-25 Thread Martins
HI, I set up net-misc/nxserver-freeedition on my home box, localhost works well. I tried conect from my work with success athorizing but stuck on conectivity check. My home box is behind router/firewall with forwarding 22 port. My work Win XP box is behind multiple routers, hubs, switches if

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, so this machine I Was speaking of earlier seems ot have a number of issues created by a profile update. I'm attempting to move from 2005.0 to 2007.0. I'm using these documents as reference: Ooooh, this is gonna be fun!

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-25 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon you have a driver you need compiled in and it's a module because of the make allconfig. I went thru the makeconfig carefully. Even disallowing an early item allowing intramfs boot, built

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Mark On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Sobey
Anno v. Heimburg wrote: In your $HOME/.kde/share/config directory, search for a file or file(s) called something like kaudiocreatorrc and perhaps similar files (I do not have it so I do not know if it perhaps uses several config files, they'll be easily identified by name, though), and rename

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista. But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista? I was just starting to think you might be friend

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. 8G drives!! Wow, that comes from the previous

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Sobey
Gavin Seddon wrote: b.n. wrote: Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works m. Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 Webcam looks good? For what it's worth I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do

Re: [gentoo-user] adding python module

2008-04-25 Thread Nick Stinemates
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:50:08AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to add a python module to python, or give me a url telling me how? THANKS GAVIN -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Not really a gentoo question, but, you have 2 options. Add your modules

Re: [gentoo-user] problems compiling tk-8.14.8 *SOLVED*

2008-04-25 Thread luis jure
El Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:34:51 -0300 luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/tk-8.4.18/work/tk8.4.18/unix/../generic/tkConsole.c:76: error: 'TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_4' undeclared here (not in a function)