Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 August 2008 23:30:54 James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: It's far from fixed here. Admittedly better than 173.*, but the vast majority of work remains to be done: What ever happened to all of those folks that said Nvidia is the superior video

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 August 2008 23:25:20 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 21:03:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [snip] well, it was mostly fixed with their latest beta drivers. You mean 177.68 right? [snip] they

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as your post turned into the usual kde 4 is good/bad flamewar I will just try to answer the question: The people working on the overlay plan to bringt kde 4.1.1(not 4.1.0) into the tree. This will be released on next week and enter the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 23:30:54 James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: It's far from fixed here. Admittedly better than 173.*, but the vast majority of work remains to be done: What ever happened to all of those folks that said

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Oxley
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, as your post turned into the usual kde 4 is good/bad flamewar I will just try to answer the question: The people working on the overlay plan to bringt kde 4.1.1(not 4.1.0) into the tree. This will be released on next week and enter the tree hopefully shortly after that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 August 2008 12:45:56 Dale wrote: Dale goes to have a good cry  I always liked Nvidia.  I have a couple old cards here.  :'( Old cards still work just fine with the legacy driver. Old cards currently perform better than new cards too :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 29 August 2008 12:45:56 Dale wrote: Dale goes to have a good cry I always liked Nvidia. I have a couple old cards here. :'( Old cards still work just fine with the legacy driver. Old cards currently perform better than new cards too :-) Yea,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 August 2008 11:46:55 Dale wrote: I have not been keeping up with this news about the new Nvidia cards so let me see if I get this right.  I have a old FX-5200 card right now but if I wanted to get a nice new video card, say a new puter build, then I should get a ATI card instead?

[gentoo-user] GFS2 or other

2008-08-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I want to use, but I can't find it in portage. So is there any layman which have GFS2's ebuild? Or maybe you can recommend other clustered-aware filesystem? Thanks in advanced! -- wcw

[gentoo-user] How to read an audio cd image

2008-08-29 Thread Teng Wang
Hi there, I used cdrdao to create an audio cd image, namely image.iso, and the corresponding toc file, image.iso.toc. I know since audio cd has no filesystem on it, we cannot mount it as usual. So I want to ask if there is anyway to play this audio cd image. If you guys know any reference I can

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read an audio cd image

2008-08-29 Thread Xav'
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:45:13 -0500, Teng Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I used cdrdao to create an audio cd image, namely image.iso, and the corresponding toc file, image.iso.toc. I know since audio cd has no filesystem on it, we cannot mount it as usual. So I want to ask if there

Re: [gentoo-user] GFS2 or other

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use, but I can't find it in portage. So is there any layman which have GFS2's ebuild? Hi, sys-fs/gfs-2.02.00-r1 is in the regular portage tree. Is GFS version 2 different from GFS2? Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] GFS2 or other

2008-08-29 Thread Pintér Tibor
Paul Hartman írta: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use, but I can't find it in portage. So is there any layman which have GFS2's ebuild? Hi, sys-fs/gfs-2.02.00-r1 is in the regular portage tree. Is GFS version 2 different from GFS2?

[gentoo-user] KDE and Gnome start-up apps

2008-08-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, I use e17 as my window manager as well as various KDE and Gnome apps. I find that fonts used in these apps are much bigger in e17 than in their native environments - GTK apps being especially bad and Firefox being the worst. By reading the 'startkde' script I found that running kcminit

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read an audio cd image

2008-08-29 Thread Teng Wang
Hi, Thanks. I will try later since my laptop is not beside me. However I think I did this before but also failed. It looks weird. If this ways works, we should also can use mplayer /dev/cdrom to play audio cd. Best, Teng

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read an audio cd image

2008-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:40:26 -0500, Teng Wang wrote: Thanks. I will try later since my laptop is not beside me. However I think I did this before but also failed. It looks weird. If this ways works, we should also can use mplayer /dev/cdrom to play audio cd. It's mplayer -cdrom-device

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-29 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Florian, on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote: Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than Linear (also called JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly as will security because most simple onboard controllers can't handle a dying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: idea on updates

2008-08-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:46:36 + (UTC), James wrote: OK elog look good. Is this the best wiki to use to initailly set it up? http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_ out_ELOG_mails Hardly the TIP is now

[gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Michele Schiavo
There are some befit to set pic use flag on amd64 ? signature.asc Description: Questa è una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente

Re: [gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 30. August 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: There are some befit to set pic use flag on amd64 ? no don't touch it. If anything needs it, it will override it anyway. pic will make stuff a lot slower.

Re: [gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 30. August 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: There are some befit to set pic use flag on amd64 ? no don't touch it. If anything needs it, it will override it anyway. pic will make stuff a lot slower. This is a good one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

Re: [gentoo-user] pic use flag

2008-08-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 30. August 2008, Dale wrote: Is this one of those 'if you ask you don't know what you are doing' situations? LOL yes.

[gentoo-user] package.use update

2008-08-29 Thread Mick
Did you see this today? # etc-update Scanning Configuration files... The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/portage/package.use (1) Please select a file

Re: [gentoo-user] package.use update

2008-08-29 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Mick, on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:51:18AM +0100, you wrote: Did you see this today? # etc-update [...] File: /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use [...] What is it about? No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another category

Re: [gentoo-user] package.use update

2008-08-29 Thread Dale
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Mick, on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:51:18AM +0100, you wrote: Did you see this today? # etc-update [...] File: /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use [...] What is it about? No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some

[gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` removing old version of Python

2008-08-29 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I recently got bitten by the libexpat.so.0 error - for me I discovered this some considerable months after everyone else on the list, not because I don't update often (perhaps once or twice every few weeks) but, I think, because my machines are servers and I don't have that

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-08-29 Thread Stroller
On 18 Aug 2008, at 08:04, Mick wrote: ... When you updated the ca-certificates, you should have gotten a postinst message about broken symlinks that you need to remove. Oops! I had missed that. Looks good now: # update-ca-certificates Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsdone.