[gentoo-user] Installing OSS / error adding oss-overlay

2009-02-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
Hello, list. Since I've scrapped my old miniITX home router / server, I've missed the ability to use speakers from laptop via wifi and esd/pulse, since new machine doesn't have bult-in sound card. Today I've got PCI-E Creative XFi Xtreme Audio, which, as far as I can see isn't on alsa or

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

2009-02-22 Thread Marcin Zwd
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: No, I have this problem, too. When I use 'xset dpms force off' for the first few times, it works (screen stays off). After that, it always turns back on. It also didn't go away when I switched from XFCE to

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing OSS / error adding oss-overlay

2009-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Kazantsev wrote: To the point: AFAIK OSS in gentoo resides in oss-overlay, which I try to add with standard 'layman -a oss-overlay': r...@damnation:~# layman -a oss-overlay * Running command /usr/bin/hg clone http://hg.atheme.org/users/majeru/portage-overlay/;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions

2009-02-22 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions

2009-02-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 12:28:29 schrieb b.n.: James ha scritto: 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

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

2009-02-22 Thread Marcin Zwd
Lately, I notice that when I go back to fluxbox then everything seems to be fine. Apparently, this is the problem with GNOME or some other apps. At this point I do not know exactly how the wake up of x11 works, but I have a question. Is it possible to set (some) options (xorg.conf?) that *only*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing OSS / error adding oss-overlay

2009-02-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:47:33 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I'm using OSS4 for a long time and noticed this error appearing two days ago. I posted about it on the opensound forums: http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11881#11881 Hopefully they'll fix it

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

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: The madwifi/ath5k guys say it should work in 2.6.28 which I'm on. The latest is I'm getting this directly from hostapd: Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory ELOOP: remaining

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org (i915) [SOLVED]

2009-02-22 Thread Pat
pat wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:08:33 +0100, Pat wrote Hello, I'm using Gentoo on my laptop and quite often the graphic output goes mad. There are messed lines and the contend is not readable. I've made screen shots (attached). Please, could someone help me? In the system log I've found

[gentoo-user] Solid state disks...

2009-02-22 Thread Steve
I'm playing around with an application that requires me to manage a large (multi-gigabyte to terabyte), bespoke, frequently-updating data structure in real-time... key concerns are for durability and efficiency. While a traditional approach might be to employ an expensive DBMS on expensive

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
The madwifi/ath5k guys say it should work in 2.6.28 which I'm on. The latest is I'm getting this directly from hostapd: Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5

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

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Hi, i have been, through that lately an it is not that out of the box. Here is what i put together from linux-wireless mailinglist and trial and error: 1. Master mode on ath5k is there, but not activated and not in 2.6.28. Mainly from this thread i got the kernel stuff and

[gentoo-user] Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? Thanks, dave

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
Hi, i have been, through that lately an it is not that out of the box. Here is what i put together from linux-wireless mailinglist and trial and error: 1. Master mode on ath5k is there, but not activated and not in 2.6.28. Mainly from this thread i got the kernel stuff and settings

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? Thanks, eclean perhaps? app-portage/gentoolkit -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:13:40 -0500, dhk wrote: Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? 1) eclean - from gentoolkit 2) rm Be careful with eclean if you are

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

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Removing wlan0 from /etc/conf.d/hostapd is not what you would want, as you wish hostapd to use wlan0. The init scripts are not able to set up master mode correctly and bring up an error or set up wlan0 interface in a false mode so hostapd can not set it up any more. So i set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Rodrigo Lazo wrote: dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? Thanks, eclean perhaps? app-portage/gentoolkit

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
Removing wlan0 from /etc/conf.d/hostapd is not what you would want, as you wish hostapd to use wlan0. The init scripts are not able to set up master mode correctly and bring up an error or set up wlan0 interface in a false mode so hostapd can not set it up any more. So i set up my init to

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
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. Don't hold your breath. :) 1.2.8 was working perfectly for a long time before 2.0 was released and there was never even a hint of portage folks

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

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: Still no luck for me with master mode, even after editing wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c. 2.6.28 is supposed to work but I'm wondering if it's not in 2.6.28-hardened or something. I still get Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode from hostapd. -

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
Still no luck for me with master mode, even after editing wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c. 2.6.28 is supposed to work but I'm wondering if it's not in 2.6.28-hardened or something. I still get Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode from hostapd. - Grant 2.6.28

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

2009-02-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Sab, 21 de Febrero de 2009, 19:29, James Homuth escribió: -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:

[gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Very off topic other than I'd do this on my Gentoo box prior to using R on my Gentoo box. Please ignore if not of interest. I've got a really big data file in essentially a *.csv format. (comma delimited) I need to scan this file and create a new output file. I'm wondering if there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 22 February 2009, 20:06, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Very off topic other than I'd do this on my Gentoo box prior to using R on my Gentoo box. Please ignore if not of interest. I've got a really big data file in essentially a *.csv format. (comma delimited) I need to scan this

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

2009-02-22 Thread Grant
Still no luck for me with master mode, even after editing wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c. 2.6.28 is supposed to work but I'm wondering if it's not in 2.6.28-hardened or something. I still get Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode from hostapd. - Grant 2.6.28

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

2009-02-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: I've got a really big data file in essentially a *.csv format. (comma delimited) I need to scan this file and create a new output file. I'm wondering if there is a reasonably easy command line way of doing this

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

2009-02-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: A couple handy commands... On Gentoo: emerge --fetchonly --pretend other options and package atoms 2 download.lst On an internet connected system (even doable on Windows with a ported copy of wget): wget -c -nc -i

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

2009-02-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: A couple handy commands... On Gentoo: emerge --fetchonly --pretend other options and package atoms 2 download.lst On an internet connected

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

2009-02-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I'm a step closer in 2.6.28 after applying this patch: --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:35.0 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2008-10-28 10:32:40.0 +0200 @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH case

[gentoo-user] hal + xorg hell part 2

2009-02-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm still struggling with xorg + hal Now, my PS/2 keyboard translates certain keys in a strange way, e.g. 'insert' 'home' 'PgUp' 'PgDn' etc. Xorg.0.log contains the following lines which I don't understand (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (**) AT Translated

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2009, 20:06, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Very off topic other than I'd do this on my Gentoo box prior to using R on my Gentoo box. Please ignore if not of interest. I've got a really big

[gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread CJoeB
Hi everyone, I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments: 1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world 2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs 3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs 4. echo sys-libs/com_err /etc/portage/package.mask 5. echo sys-libs/ss

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 22 February 2009, 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote: concatenation of attributes of lines 1..n result of line n concatenation of attributes of lines 2..n+1 result of line n+1 concatenation of attributes of lines 3..n+2 result of line n+1 concatenation of attributes of lines 4..n+3 result

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: I've got a really big data file in essentially a *.csv format. (comma delimited) I need to scan this file and create a new output file. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2009, 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote: concatenation of attributes of lines 1..n result of line n concatenation of attributes of lines 2..n+1 result of line n+1 concatenation of attributes of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:15:09PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: 1) My actual input data starts with two fields which date time. For lines 2 3 I need exclude the 2nd 3rd date time from the output corresponding to line 1, so these 3 lines: Date1,Time1,A,B,C,D,0

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:15:09PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: 1) My actual input data starts with two fields which date time. For lines 2 3 I need exclude the 2nd 3rd date time from the output

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. You can use 'equery b PATH'

[gentoo-user] Re: hal + xorg hell part 2

2009-02-22 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm still struggling with xorg + hal Now, my PS/2 keyboard translates certain keys in a strange way, e.g. 'insert' 'home' 'PgUp' 'PgDn' etc. Xorg.0.log contains the following lines which I don't understand (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread CJoeB
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 23 Februar 2009, CJoeB wrote: Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: The down side is the output file is 10x larger than the input file - roughly - and my current input files are 40-60MB so the output files will be 600MB. Not huge but if they grew too much more I might get beyond what a

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs

2009-02-22 Thread AllenJB
CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments: It's not a bug. It's a valid blocker. They happen. 1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world 2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs 3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs Using -D (--deep)