Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I moved 05compiler out of the way (I want to preserve that time stamp just in case I do need to restore it), ran env-update again, and now lzma is happy. I can run man again! Things which failed emerge now build -- 323 to go.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.0.4 (not a nag)

2008-05-15 Thread Anton S. Ustyuzhanin
Dmitry S. Makovey пишет: Hi everybody, does anybody know what's happening to KDE4 in gentoo land ? Gentoo-KDE folks were pretty responsive with previous 4.0.x releases updating portage tree etc., but now I can't find much updates on what's happening with 4.0.4. Was it 3.5.9 preparations

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-15 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears to be, at root, just another snivel about how MS does things with no substance. I understand it the other way round. It is not an active knocking on your ports, but a passive MS thing. Lots of Chinese bought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Justin wrote: Didn't they made a low cost version for the far east market? Perhaps they saved the money by reducing such things!? I think Mick's explanation is plausible. The released a low-cost, cut-down, crippled version for places where piracy was rampant. I think

RE: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-15 Thread Sylvain Chouleur
Another way (simple) to resolve the issue is to re-emerge lzma-utils with nocxx flag Sylvain Chouleur Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:28:10 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9? On Wed, May 14, 2008 at

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? there is no 'libmad-0.2.1' on my system. It's weird. libmad-0.15.1b-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome wallpaper

2008-05-15 Thread gentoo
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Adam Carter wrote: My wallpaper doesnt come up when Gnome starts, but if i open the System - Preferences - Appearance dialogue it appears (i dont even need to make a change). So it looks like something is not running until i open the dialogue. Any ideas on how to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Sylvain Chouleur: Another way (simple) to resolve the issue is to re-emerge lzma-utils with nocxx flag No. It's just a workaround that works with certain packages, but fails for others (where C++ is not optional). The solution is to fix the broken

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Thanks, these are already okay. 2008/5/14 Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On AD 2008 May 13 Tuesday 09:50:24 PM +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used

[gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-15 Thread Marko Kocić
Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? Thanks, Marko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' priority to for example -10 makes graphical software response faster. It works for me!! (no matter the system hangs sometimes :). I think you have a fast machine, try it with a very

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? Do you want one line that applies it everywhere? I don't think that is supported, and you pretty much have to list them

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' priority to for example -10 makes graphical software response faster. It works for me!! (no matter the system hangs sometimes :). I think you have a fast machine, try it with a very slow computer (sempron processor and radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
You really don't know what I was talking about. (sorry for my bad English). I'm NOT running my X11 session as root (only X server), but as normal user. Setting the nice level of X server below 0 (for example -10 or -15) made all X11 clients (the graphical programs) response faster. Everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand it the other way round. It is not an active knocking on your ports, but a passive MS thing. Lots of Chinese bought a new computer with an MS operating system, which is sending out to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re enter chroot install

2008-05-15 Thread James
reader at newsguy.com writes: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Other have commented about the .../boot stuff but in dozens of times chrooting during all kinds of install situations I've never done `mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev' And far as I know it never caused me a

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

2008-05-15 Thread felix
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Sylvain Chouleur: Another way (simple) to resolve the issue is to re-emerge lzma-utils with nocxx flag No. It's just a workaround that works with certain packages, but fails for others

[gentoo-user] opengl apps not running

2008-05-15 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
I'm having trouble running opengl apps like glxgears and tremulous. The nvidia kernel module is loaded and eselect reports that opengl is being handled by nvidia but still no opengl app runs. Glxgears complains about it being run in the wrong display.

Re: [gentoo-user] df showing rootfs

2008-05-15 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, 20:56, Miika Linnapuomi wrote: Actually its relatively obvious, but its a 'dynamic' rule in /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule, that creates /dev/.udev/rules.d/10-root-link.rules Yes I have that, and I even have the /dev/root device. However, df does not show rootfs or

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl apps not running

2008-05-15 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Marzan, Richard non Unisys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble running opengl apps like glxgears and tremulous. The nvidia kernel module is loaded and eselect reports that opengl is being handled by nvidia but still no opengl app runs. Glxgears

[gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

2008-05-15 Thread James
Hello, I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1 in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files (dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub directories and see any files. The kernel I use (2.6.24-gentoo-r7) has NTFS r/w

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' priority to for example -10 makes graphical software response faster. Setting the X server to -10 may make the X more responsive to

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:34 +0200, Marko Kocić wrote: Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Tue, 5/13/08, PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 4:51 AM Arthur Britto wrote: You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:45:17 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: I know X runs always as root. But setting the X server process' priority to for example -10 makes graphical software response