Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
modprobing either module fails . . . What is the error message? On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: How about using the internet as a source for the photos? It's easy, if you run kde (3.5.9) -- control center -- screen saver -- Banners Pictures -- Slide show I'm close to getting a first release out for an app that can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:25:40 -0700, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a source for the photos? KDE's screensaver will run a slideshow. I don't know if it will accept a URL for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail

2008-07-17 Thread Gordon Schulz
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:27, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Evolution as my mail client. I receive Gentoo mailing list email at my GMail address, and access this email in Evolution over IMAP. I want Gentoo mailing list messages to go into a Gentoo mailing list folder in Evolution, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which didn't using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-17 Thread pge07beb
thaks, this one helped me: I followed those steps, and where able to recover my system. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:34:42AM +0100, Duane Griffin wrote: Google says someone else hit it once upon a time, but it doesn't seem to be listed on the kernel bugzilla. Your journal is corrupted and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-17 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/7/17 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I followed those steps, and where able to recover my system. Excellent, I'm pleased to hear that! I'd like to help, so that this problem can be fixed, if you got anything ready, just send it to me, and I'll giv it a try on that corrupted image. Thanks, I'll send

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware install

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Healy
On Jul 16, 4:20 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have a gentoo install (currently amd64/2007.0) with all of the current up to date packages. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel for quite a while now. Assuming a gentoo client - I ran into something that sounds similar a couple of months

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unknown locale mkisofs is complaining about a missing $INS_BASE/lib/siconv folder. This is correct, your installation is incomplete. Mkisofs cannot work correctly in all cases if siconv data is missing. When I replaced the old libunls

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Stroller wrote: On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Martin
Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:25 -0700, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a source for the photos? xscreensaver has glslideshow and webcollage. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/17, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a bug open addressing this and a few other things. Do you remember the Announcement file, so I can add this information to the bug! If not i will delve through the files myself. Mmmm, don't you know grep? s/delve/grep/ :-) I searched

[gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
I was in the final stages of installing gentoo when I unmerged the old gcc before installing the new. My next step was going to be an emerge system world and I'd hate to have to restart from scratch again. I do have another machine, similar (both ~x86), and wonder if I can package up the gcc on

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in the final stages of installing gentoo when I unmerged the old gcc before installing the new. My next step was going to be an emerge system world and I'd hate to have to restart from scratch again. I do have another machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:49:35 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: Don't do that; use quickpkg. info emerge for details. Then add buildsyspkg to features to make it more difficult to screw yourself in the future. -- Neil Bothwick To err is human, to forgive is beyond the scope of the operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Miernik wrote: I installed a new Gentoo installation, and now when I open Firefox I get: Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web. This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot

[gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Grant
I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5, app-admin/python-updater-0.2) Am I suppose to un-emerge python? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin
Grant schrieb: I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5, app-admin/python-updater-0.2) Am I suppose to un-emerge python? - Grant Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread s3b4sm4gr1
2008/7/18 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5, app-admin/python-updater-0.2) Am I suppose to un-emerge python? - Grant Perhaps you should update your

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:49:35AM -0400, Mark Shields wrote: Don't do that; use quickpkg. info emerge for details. Thanks, works like a charm ... so far :-) emerge gcc system world will take a while longer, but at least I am back in operation. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Mistaken gcc -unmerge with a twist

2008-07-17 Thread felix
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Then add buildsyspkg to features to make it more difficult to screw yourself in the future. That's handy, wish I'd known about it before. Been a while since I checked FEATURES. Are any of the others useful? Some like suid and

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Grant wrote: 'emerge -pv python' wants to install python-2.5.2-r5 in a new slot. Should I unmerge python, emerge the new python, and run python-updater? Will portage work once python has been unmerged? I'm being cautious because this is a highly critical system for

[gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Following these steps http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried the disc in my player. It did not play, the DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Nooo! You can't have a gentoo system without python Yes, you can, as long as you don't use portage. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Nooo! You can't have a gentoo system without python Yes, you can, as long as you don't use portage. That'll teach me to be less vague more specific :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following these steps http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried the disc in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jul 2008, at 08:59, Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: modprobing either module fails . . . What is the error message? # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. # modprobe -v radeon FATAL: Module radeon not found. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
# modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/kernel version/kernel/drivers/video Because according to modprobe's man page, by default it will look driver in

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Joerg Schilling wrote: sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following these steps http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test. I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on the computer, but not the player. Perhaps my Phillips player does not like DVD-R. A better idea is to update to cdrtools. cdrkit is still 3 years behind cdrtools and the bug you

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread jalves
Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy to do. (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get home if you still need to know). -Jeremy On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote: How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-17 Thread David Blamire-Brown
I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:45 -0700 jalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy to do. (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get home if you still need to know). On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Joerg Schilling wrote: sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on the computer, but not the player. A better idea is to update to cdrtools. cdrkit is still 3 years behind cdrtools and the bug you mentioned has never been in the

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/kernel version/kernel/drivers/video Because according to

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

2008-07-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 July 2008, David Blamire-Brown wrote: I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread sean
Jorg, Another update. I had made two attempts burning my movie to a no-brand DVD-R. Not wanting to waste another DVD-R I instead used a brand name DVD+RW for another test. It worked, the movie played. When I get the chance I will pick up a brand name DVD-R and try the burn again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Jorg, Another update. I had made two attempts burning my movie to a no-brand DVD-R. Not wanting to waste another DVD-R I instead used a brand name DVD+RW for another test. It worked, the movie played. When I get the chance I will pick up a brand name DVD-R and try the

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Niederl
Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: # modprobe -v radeon_drv FATAL: Module radeon_drv not found. That's strange. But try one more thing - copy this radeon_drv from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers to /lib/modules/kernel version/kernel/drivers/video Because according

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi, I think this problem is not *-ati (driver) related. Since the module needed for drm has the same name as the driver has, but resides in another directory. I would suggest you to check whether x11-base/x11-drm or to the kernel module is build for drm. Since I am using the package

[gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread chloe K
Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark

[gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package six

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've never tried to hack a KDE appliction before, and I'm having a bunch of trouble just finding the right resources to RTF*. The package is six-0.5.3, and I have some tweaks I got from the original author back at release 0.3.3, but I cannot get them into the 0.5.3 source tree properly. It

Re: [gentoo-user] light httpd

2008-07-17 Thread fire-eyes
chloe K wrote: Hi all what is the different between light httpd vs typical apache? how can i tun sysclt for httpd to increase performance thank you - Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web