Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater

2008-07-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]: I did some updates today. emerge --sync and updated world on my production machine. Things went OK, including running python-updater. Then I scp'd the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles over to my hot backup machine, ran emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:49:39 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: When ordering items by name, a separate and distinct sequence is scene for A-Z before the sequence for a-z. This is the expected behavior. What might i need to look up to intermix [Aa]-[Zz]? That depends on what you are using to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mark David Dumlao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 01:51]: When ordering items by name, a separate and distinct sequence is scene for A-Z before the sequence for a-z. This is the expected behavior. What might i need to look up to intermix [Aa]-[Zz]? Maybe should state in what application you

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Norman Hakim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 06:24]: From: Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:56 PM Hi all, I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried

[gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Amar Cosic
Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also, I would appreciate if someone could give me some of yours make.conf's you use on laptop. Thanks -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 3973120 512-byte hdwr sectors (2034 MB) sda: Write Protect is off

Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also, I would appreciate if someone could give me some of yours make.conf's you use

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-19 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? Yes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello all I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Alan McKinnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 09:19]: Rather mount by fs LABEL on the device or it's GUID. First column in /etc/fstab: LABEL=MY_FS_LABEL GUID=VERY_LONG_GUID_GOES_HERE Personally, I feel fstab is the wrong place for pluggable filesystems. Rather use automounting daemons

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Sebastian! On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:39:32PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Alan Mackenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.07.08 23:00]: [ ] Except I've hit a brick wall. I want to set up my console keyboard, so I go to edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps, as described in the x86 Handbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? or you are a victim of that new preserved-libs

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

2008-07-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] For some reason on the 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 kernel the xf86-video-ati fails to install any modules, hence this message. I haven't configured this box for ages so I may be misunderstanding something here. Do I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:17:39 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: I am about to install Gentoo on laptop for first time.I use gentoo-sources on desktop but I would like to know is there maybe something better for laptop? tuxonice-sources, which is gentoo-sources plus the tuxonice suspend/hibernate

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
080718 Norman Hakim wrote: I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried to add this line to /etc/fstab: echo /dev/usb /mnt/usb auto noauto,rw,user /etc/fstab I have '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0'. This is ok as long as I use only 1 USB stick at the

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

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried connecting to a MSWindows RealVNC server with krdc and I remember that I couldn't login. It could be latency across the pond, or network traffic causing the login to time out. Eventually I ran out of patience/time and decided to remove the login

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

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater

2008-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:04 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]: I did some updates today. emerge --sync and updated world on my production machine. Things went OK, including running python-updater. Then I scp'd the contents

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

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a bug fixed in 3.0.1 - released just today Installed it, and the problem is solved - thanks! -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Details: I've run a: Model: GCS-138 8-Port Iomega MiniView Ultra KVM Switch (ps/2 based)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package six

2008-07-19 Thread Patric Schmitz
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:45:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It involves a new target in Makefile.am, but if I run a new 'automake' I get a Makefile.in which is _very_ different from the old one, and won't even compile the old target. Most obviously, a bunch of *.moc targets

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

2008-07-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: However trying to connect with windows (tightVnc) client to Linux (tightVNc) server fails for me without any log info or debug info whatever. Makes it hard to see how to debug the problem. Have you checked the Linux firewall settings? Have you

[gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: tuxonice-sources, which is gentoo-sources plus the tuxonice suspend/hibernate patches. I read the default site: http://www.tuxonice.net. Interestingly, I found this dysfunctional url using 'eix tuxonice': http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:12 + (UTC), James wrote: Interestingly, I found this dysfunctional url using 'eix tuxonice': http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs -- Neil Bothwick Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station

[gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs Must have been some transient error. Now I find it. Thanks James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Neil Walker
Harry Putnam wrote: Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater

2008-07-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote Just make an # emerge -1 setuptools and python-updater will run smoothly Thank you very much. That fixed things up -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: KVM: Keyboard Video Mouse switch Summary: Runing a KVM switch between 4 machines, my gentoo desktop is not recognizing the usb based keyboard and mouse connections thru the the KVM switch. Make sure you have USB Hid support compiled into the kernel (along with

[gentoo-user] Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
I installed Gentoo recently, and have the following problem: In xterm I cannot see non-ASCII chars, when I 'cat' a file with UTF-8 characters, garbage comes out. In other applications (gnumeric, firefox), UTF-8 functions correctly. How to fix it? When I start another XTerm from one XTerm, I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread dexter
James pisze: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches http://www.tuxonice.net Those are two quite functional URLs Must have been some transient error. Now I find it. Thanks James Although these sources have some

[gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Maybe there was some /dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom ,

[gentoo-user] Re: Curious ping problem with no FW

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm asking for here is advice about where to start debugging this. How about running tcpdump on your outgoing ethernet interface while running ping? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Walter Dnes
I did an update yesterday that pulled in, amongst other things, x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 I'm running 32-bit linux on an Intel Prescott. The video card is 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Sebastian Günther
* dexter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 20:44]: Although these sources have some potential, I still am unable to boot into linux when running on battery, on AC everything works fine. Strange problem... but I would think it to be more a hardware problem. Did you ever tried to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
How about: not using screensavers at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 19. Juli 2008 schrieb Miernik: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Some diags: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale -a en_DK.utf8 And you don't see the difference? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name. Man x and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06:15PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Miernik, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Miernik wrote: Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan Mackenzie wrote: The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as /dev/sdb5. When I built my own kernel, it needed /dev/hdh5. This seems crazy. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Graham Murray
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, and no other /dev/sd*. That's where my UBS stick gets mounted. What about any /dev/sr*?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Jan Seeger
I guess that X is blanking the screen (I have a similar problem with blanking). So the correct location to look would be /etc/X11/xorg.conf Regards, Jan Seeger -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:11:09PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Alan Mackenzie schrieb: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works,

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Alan Mackenzie schrieb: When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special device /dev/hdc does not exist. And yes, there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. Do you mean mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom Maybe. Is that different? Yeah, there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A ps -ef doesn't show any process with screen in the name.

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Carson
I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments I have my network up and running with WPA. When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel, not as a module) and rebooted I

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? A

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Bridging

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Carson
I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments I have my network up and running with WPA. When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel, not as a module) and rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote How about: not using screensavers at all? Now for a stupid-sounding

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types terminate in just a

[gentoo-user] GtkMozEmbed error

2008-07-19 Thread Grant
I'm really struggling with the error I get when trying to compile miro via the bugs.gentoo.org ebuild. It used to work but something happened a while ago that prevents it from compiling now. I've tried quite a few things to fix it. Does this tell anybody anything?

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just realized I'd left the usb to ps/2 adapters in place from when I tried that to see if it would help. I hooking the KVM usb cables to actual USB ports again now and rebooting. Maybe it will be ok... I'll know soon. Ahh didn't need the reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM mouse and keyboard recognition

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: | Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Harry Putnam wrote: | Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition? | | I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It | supports both PS/2 and

[gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-19 Thread Ivan Alden
Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you

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

2008-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:27 +0100, Richard wrote: Dear all, 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,