Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to date.  Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing it in each time?  Not just portage but any command.  It may work well for this.  Than again, that may

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner? I didn't know of perl-cleaner. I have never used it, and I don't remember any emerge message telling me to use it (like a python update does). I have just ran per-cleaner all ask. First I run as a normal user (as a test; I was

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing it in each time? Not just portage but any command. It may work well for this.

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. So, I killed firefox to free

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 10:06: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing it in each time? Not just portage but any

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 10:06: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing it

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 11:31: I think I got the information about --with-bdeps from here [1], so this is all the information I have. Also I am still on stable portage, while I guess you are not (as /etc/make.conf.example is still in place), so I don't know if

[gentoo-user] Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread JC D
Hi group, I have a HP tx1000 with touchscreen.  In the forum I found that there is a chance to get the Touchscreen running with the new beta-version of the eGalax driver. (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) The manual installation worked but when I try to callibrate the

[gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Norman Hakim
hi all, Do i have to configure anything so that i can connect my pc using projector as my monitor?or do i just directly connect without any configuration? NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA

[gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after it is invoked. Reading through the man pages of

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: Calculating dependencies / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy media-libs/gst-plugins:0.8 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the flag, Dorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss its target ;) This is a sample of my file. This should help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # cat /etc/portage/package.unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the flag, Dorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss its target ;) Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-11-23 13:36]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: Calculating dependencies / !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
I know the unmask procedure as something like (for example) kde-base/kitchensync ~x86 in case of an ordinary intelish PC... So, if unmasking without the ~x86 I will try that. mcc Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-11-23 13:56]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the

[gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: Calculating dependencies / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy media-libs/gst-plugins:0.8 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 (masked by: ) In

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Le Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:23:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So, how can I unmask gst-plugins? You can't. Simply because the package 'gst-plugins' doesn't exist anymore in the official tree. You should update your ebuilds from your overlays. Try : $ equery d gst-plugins to find

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Oh, I see...and what can I use instead? Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-11-23 14:06]: Le Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:23:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So, how can I unmask gst-plugins? You can't. Simply because the package 'gst-plugins' doesn't exist anymore in the official

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sunday 23 November 2008 14:20:51 damian wrote: Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 14:09:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh, I see...and what can I use instead? 0.10 Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hi again, Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 duo laptop to drop the login prompt without X, wireless supplicant, cron daemon or sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. Try adding modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_ath0=-Dmadwifi config_ath0=( dhcp ) to your /etc/conf.d/net file. Make sure that you have not built/modprobed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based URL, unless I explicitly trust the provider. RobbieAB signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, Do i have to configure anything so that i can connect my pc using projector as my monitor?or do i just directly connect without any configuration? Depends on the graphics card, the drivers, and how you

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner? I didn't know of perl-cleaner. I have never used it, and I don't remember any emerge message telling me to use it (like a python update does). I have just

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
You wanted to pass options to your dhcp client. The page mentioned shows two ways of doing that: 1) By setting the variable dhcp_eth0 to a space-delimited string of options, like dhcp_eth0=release nodns nontp nonis These generic options work for any of the dhclient, dhcpcd, pump and udhcpc

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:59:40 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-11-23 13:56]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the flag, Sorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss its target ;) ^ My,Typo

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread John Blinka
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 November 2008, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. Try adding modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_ath0=-Dmadwifi config_ath0=( dhcp ) to your

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and att 2wire g ateway

2008-11-23 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. Try adding modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_ath0=-Dmadwifi config_ath0=( dhcp ) to your /etc/conf.d/net file. Tried your suggestion above, but it didn't help. my /etc/conf.d/net has the following :

[gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:29:39 + Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based URL, unless

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Wallis
On 23/11/2008, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:16:52 -0600 »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:29:39 + Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please

[gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread William Kenworthy
Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via NFS and samba for backups and shared files. What I would really like is a file system

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Kobboi
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via NFS and samba for backups

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via NFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Norman Hakim
NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Sun, 11/23/08, Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:31 AM On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:38 -0800

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of gail-1000

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, from time to time this message pops up after syncing: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4) How can I get rid of gail-1000 finally? Kind regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread john stampe
Norman, Most of the projectors I have worked with can simply be plugged into the computer the same as with a monitor. The only thing I have ever had to configure is sometimes the monitor section in xorg.conf, but that is usually not necessary. If possible try the projector before hand.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Roy Wright
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: I think it is LVMS or something.  Linux volume management system??  I think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System 1) is

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 23:31:30 schrieb William Kenworthy: What I would really like is a file system that would unify these spaces and present them to the network as storage space - ideally with redundant data storage so one or more machines can dissappear and the data is still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE build problem (shifted)

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Christian Apeltauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at bug #246568. There you will find a patch which worked for me. Someone has also posted an ebuild integrating that patch. But it does not work for everybody and the bug was closed as a problem with upstream.

[gentoo-user] [OT] unloading wacom module

2008-11-23 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! After adding wacom bamboo I have a problem: at exiting from X (any DE - KDE, Gnome. fluxbox) DE freezes. I have found in Xorg.log there is a problem of unloading wacom module: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x65) [0x482c25] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f012ad85ee0] 2: