[gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help

2009-02-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a strange problem with hal. To get my usb mouse (Logitech RX1000) running, I have to unplug the mouse before booting and plug it again after booting but before starting X11. This is nuisance and make a graphical login manager impossible. To make it even work I had to put Option

[gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac

2009-02-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:37:53 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon. Would it make a difference if I install qt-phonon instead? a) don't install qt-phonon Why not? b) use xine as backend Why? I know xine works. However, I would prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 21 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) [21.02.09 10:55]: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac

2009-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:37:53 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon. Would it make a difference if I install qt-phonon instead? a) don't install qt-phonon Why not? because

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 21 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help

2009-02-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? (Sorry if this came through already, gmail's draft saving via IMAP and a spotty wlan really mix up threads and messages in

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! Sorry Alejandro, but that link didn't help very much... iwconfig shows: wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID: Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Pupino
2009/2/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently

2009-02-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Marcin Zwd schrieb: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vladimir Rusinov vladi...@greenmice.info wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd marcin...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn off

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote: * Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]: Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI installer ;) No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) To which the guru replied: If

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) *

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi James, On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:29:18PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org] Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) Are you on the

[gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread James
Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: # equery depends dbus-python [ Searching for packages depending on dbus-python... ] media-tv/miro-2.0.1 (dev-python/dbus-python) net-misc/wicd-1.5.9-r1 (dev-python/dbus-python) Grant, How are you getting miro? #rd party ebuild? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:33:17 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 )

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
# equery depends dbus-python [ Searching for packages depending on dbus-python... ] media-tv/miro-2.0.1 (dev-python/dbus-python) net-misc/wicd-1.5.9-r1 (dev-python/dbus-python) Grant, How are you getting miro? #rd party ebuild? My /usr/portage/media-tv directory does not contain miro?

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux traffic shaper setup advice

2009-02-21 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 09 February 2009 12:34:01 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi Gentoo community, I have several computers at home and one Gentoo-powered router. I want to setup a very simple traffic shaper that will give each computer almost equal(the best choice - with some weight coefficient on each ip

[gentoo-user] Installing gentoo (was gentoo installer and handbook)

2009-02-21 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again James, I am moving this thread to gentoo-accessibility, so can we continue discussion there? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:27:13PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org]

[gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface

2009-02-21 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Hi list, I have a server with two interfaces in the same subnet. When asking for the MAC of one of the IPs, always both interfaces reply: arping -b xx.xx.xx.xx ARPING xx.xx.xx.xx from yy.yy.yy.yy eth0 Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:1D:7D:D7:6D:F3] 0.607ms Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx

Re: [gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface

2009-02-21 Thread Tomáš Krasničan
Hi, set the interface with -I parameter. Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Hi list, I have a server with two interfaces in the same subnet. When asking for the MAC of one of the IPs, always both interfaces reply: arping -b xx.xx.xx.xx ARPING xx.xx.xx.xx from yy.yy.yy.yy eth0 Unicast reply from

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualBox and Gcc

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a specific compiler during an emerge? [...] I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions,

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-21 Thread maxim wexler
ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason for using 2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the addition of the eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules on my Eee. When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. Also check it's not in your module-rebuild list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/21/09, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and wicd installed simultaneously: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and wicd installed simultaneously: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-python/pyrex:0 ('installed', '/',

Re: [gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface

2009-02-21 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Hi, no, I'm not complaining about arping, which is run on the client (and has only one NIC), but I complain about the server replying from both interfaces. Sascha Am Samstag 21 Februar 2009 22:14:52 schrieb Tomáš Krasničan: Hi, set the interface with -I parameter. Sascha Hlusiak wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and wicd installed simultaneously: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-python/pyrex:0 ('installed', '/',

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:03:17 -0800, Grant wrote: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:22 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find. I'm using tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 on this Eee and gentoo-sources-2.6.28 on my desktop. Either you haven't synced recently or you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

2009-02-21 Thread Grant
* In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But

[gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions

2009-02-21 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Yes, you heard me right - I recommend one uses Ubuntu to install Gentoo I took that a stage further with my Eee. Knowing how long it would take to build everything, I installed Ubuntu, then used that while Gentoo was building in a chroot.

[gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?

2009-02-21 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: There are good ebuilds here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527 thx grant, I'll just wait till it goes testing, then try it. I've got enough to hax @ these days. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:29 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's