Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-02 Thread Grant
It looks like you've probably used the x86 stage3 tarball instead of the i686 one. While you can change it [0], the best option is probably to start again using the correct tarball. Note that if you do want to change CHOST, you _MUST_ follow the guide[0] or you will end up with problems.

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST='i486-pc-linux-gnu' ?

2009-02-02 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu It's a 32-bit CPU. I'm just confused as to why it doesn't qualify as a 686 instead of 486. Run: cat /proc/cpuinfo to be certain about the cpu. YOu can usually do this with any boot/install disk, prior to installation. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-02 Thread Grant
One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Grant
Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p Did it already point you to Tarpley's biography about Hussein Obama ? Or to Obma's connections to Brezinski (the one who wants to get China into war against

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Tom
maybe a pointer to the documentation? Is there such a thing? I mean a comprehensive guide for doing such work on (not only) gentoo systems? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p Did it already point you to Tarpley's biography about Hussein Obama ? Or to Obma's connections to Brezinski (the one who wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: The problem I ran into when I copied the old way, cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot, that wasn't the kernel but was a link to the kernel in the x86 directory tree. When I copied the link then the link got broke and then it appeared red

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Seriously folks. This conversation is WAY off topic. Could those interested in this topic please find another venue - even a

[gentoo-user] Gack... cups docu

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/ appears to have the href links setup so that they point to somewhere on the file system that

[gentoo-user] Re: Gack... cups docu

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/ appears to have the href links setup so that they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gack... cups docu

2009-02-02 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Anyone else have trouble accessing cups documentation? Here using http://localhost:631 just fails with standard message unable to connect to server at 631. The html stuff under /usr/share/cups/html/ appears to have the href

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-02 Thread Florian Philipp
AllenJB schrieb: Hi, It looks like you've probably used the x86 stage3 tarball instead of the i686 one. While you can change it [0], the best option is probably to start again using the correct tarball. Note that if you do want to change CHOST, you _MUST_ follow the guide[0] or you will

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta but it takes next to no time instead of hours and hasn't build the binary packages without any error messages. What am I missing? --buildpkg only works

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:23:56 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: make all modules_install install Which also, as a nice bonus, backs up your kernel config too. Does this not also add the system.map file a couple of others to / boot ? I think I tried this /or

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:23:56 +, Stroller wrote: Which also, as a nice bonus, backs up your kernel config too. Does this not also add the system.map file a couple of others to / boot ? It add three files, the kernel, the config and System map. The first is needed, the second is

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta but it takes next to no time instead of hours and hasn't build the binary packages

[gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where I could choose which system to login to. In fact, on my second attempt, I get

[gentoo-user] pidgin build error

2009-02-02 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I'm getting this errorn when trying to emerge pidgin: gcc-config error: Could not run/locate i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc make[6]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Purple/Purple.so] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-im/pidgin-2.5.2/work/pidgin-2.5.2/libpurple/plugins/perl/common'

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote: ... Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. ... This is definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] localmount before fsck: e2fsck complaining

2009-02-02 Thread reQuiem23
Dirk Heinrichs-2 wrote: Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 14:03:29 schrieb reQuiem23: when i remove checkfs, though, it would not solve the problem of localmount being run before fsck, would it? Sure it would. the mounted /home part could still not be scanned, i suppose. am i wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 02 Feb 2009, Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all,

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:05:45 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: --buildpkg only works if the dependent packages are installed, Sorry, wrong way round, I meant dependencies, not dependent packages. -- Neil Bothwick God made wrinkles to show where smiles have been. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system

[gentoo-user] ebuild for x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r3 is missing after portage update but required by the system configuration

2009-02-02 Thread Dimitris Kavadas
Hello, After updating portage via emerge --sync, I tried to perform world update issuing the following command: emerge -DupvN world The command ended with the following message: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no

[gentoo-user] Re: pidgin build error

2009-02-02 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I'm getting this errorn when trying to emerge pidgin: gcc-config error: Could not run/locate i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc snip errors building perl stuff for pidgin My CHOST is: # grep CHOST /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] localmount before fsck: e2fsck complaining

2009-02-02 Thread reQuiem23
Bugzilla from en.a...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reQuiem23 wrote: hi all, i just noticed some warnings in my bootup process. the order of the services in question is checkfs - localmount - fsck. however, checkfs does the pending file system

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [01.02.09 00:23]: On 31 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Grant wrote: Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p Did it already point you to Tarpley's biography about

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Typo there I think. Try revdep-rebuild -i and see if that helps. Unfortunately it didn't help: przehyba ~ # revdep-rebuild -i * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin build error

2009-02-02 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:38:42 -0500 ABCD ABCD wrote: [...] It appears that you may have changed your CHOST at some point in the past - if so, you may want to try rebuilding sys-libs/libperl and dev-lang/perl, which may fix this error (you might want to try that even if you *haven't* changed

[gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, again for the kde upgrade I'd like to prepare the upgrade by build all necessary binary packages and do the real update some times later when it doesn't matter if the machine is down for some time Using portage 2.2_rc23 I've just tried nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] localmount before fsck: e2fsck complaining

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 14:03:29 schrieb reQuiem23: when i remove checkfs, though, it would not solve the problem of localmount being run before fsck, would it? Sure it would. the mounted /home part could still not be scanned, i suppose. am i wrong here? Yes. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Has ~amd64 portage such games for my 7 years old son?

[gentoo-user] localversion [was: When did bzImage move? ]

2009-02-02 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:22:29 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: cd /usr/src/linux echo $(hostname)- localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented

Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

2009-02-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 01 February 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. Try the command lines from the example section in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 01 Feb 2009, Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:22:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: The idea from above is to end up with: localversion1 localversion2 - .version .version Where: localversion1 contains HOSTNAME .version contains number `N' (current build) localversion2 is symlinked to .version All

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: cd /usr/src/linux echo $(hostname)- localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented each time you run make. I'm sorry for being so dense but that

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-02 Thread AllenJB
Hi, It looks like you've probably used the x86 stage3 tarball instead of the i686 one. While you can change it [0], the best option is probably to start again using the correct tarball. Note that if you do want to change CHOST, you _MUST_ follow the guide[0] or you will end up with

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Dale
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [01.02.09 00:23]: On 31 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Grant wrote: Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p Did it

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r3 is missing after portage update but required by the system configuration

2009-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:37:51 +0200, Dimitris Kavadas wrote: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r3. (dependency required by net-wireless/kdebluetooth-1.0_beta1-r2 [installed]) (dependency required by world [argument]) So, what seems to be the problem? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Has ~amd64 portage such games for my 7 years old son? Nexuiz seems petty blood free... But I have integrated graphics, so I haven't been able to turn the effects all the way on (or use a resolution 800x600) Pariksheet

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
090203 Robin Atwood wrote: I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where I could choose which system to login to. I get my original KDM 3.5 login screen and no new options and when I login I do get my original desktop environment, albeit with

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Robin Atwood wrote: No the problem was that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not the same as restarting xdm. Doing that, I got the new login screen. Next problem. I am compiling @kdepim-4.2 and it fails because it can't find KdepimLibs_CONFIG. I saw this before with nepomuk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 22:52, Miernik wrote: !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage/local/layman/ java-overlay' Have you tried removing that from your make.conf? Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Tom
I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) derived from that engine also has the option!? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote: I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) derived from that engine also has the option!? Tom Ok, I'll clarify

[gentoo-user] ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's this: http://www.google.com/ncr Does the ENTER key work for anyone? I'm on Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote: I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free) derived from that engine also has the option!? Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:20:24 +0300 Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:00:40 Tom wrote: I played Wolfenstein 3D as I was 7, and Doom when I was 8. And I'm in no way disturbed...I think ;) I think you can turn off gore in quake 3,so maybe anything (free)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:24:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Difficult to find an FPS without violence. Even in Consoles and MS Windows. Why? FPS = First Person *Shooter*. Shooter = guns and kills ;) Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:24:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Difficult to find an FPS without violence. Even in Consoles and MS Windows. Why? FPS = First Person *Shooter*. Shooter = guns and kills ;) Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:26:58 Kenneth Prugh wrote: It may not be an fps, but I recommend checking out games-strategy/hedgewars if you haven't already. Thanks, is wgetting just now.

[gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:24:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Difficult to find an FPS without violence. Even in Consoles and MS Windows. Why? FPS = First Person *Shooter*. Shooter = guns and kills ;) Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:15:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about. Fine! Probably there are not-FPS :-) beauty (rich 3D) games for little

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 22:52, Miernik wrote: !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage/local/layman/ java-overlay' Have you tried removing that from your make.conf? Yes, no effect: przehyba ~ # revdep-rebuild -i * Configuring

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Miernik
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 22:52, Miernik wrote: !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage/local/layman/ java-overlay' Have you tried removing that from your make.conf? And after restarting squash_portage (no idea why it didn't start

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Miernik wrote: Before I had ~amd64 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but in the middle of this upgrade I thought it was a bad idea, because many programs failed to compile, so I removed that from make.conf, and did run 'emerge --empty-tree world' which downgraded everything back to stable. But one thing I

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The only thing I can recommend is rebuilding system, and then rebuilding world to make sure everything is rebuilt using the same toolchain, including the toolchain itself. Pretty much the same as installing from scratch though, but at least you won't have to

[gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 ebuild fails: Scanning dependencies of target kdeinit_kxkb [ 23%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kdeinit_kxkb_automoc.o [ 24%] Building CXX object

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Uys wrote: [...] Have anyone else successfully built kde4.2? No problems here on AMD64. I didn't use anything outside portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:15:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about.

Re: [gentoo-user] ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's this:

[gentoo-user] Re: ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get there by clicking the Google.com in English link. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 09:08:31 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:15:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about. Fine! Probably there are not-FPS :-) beauty (rich 3D) games for