Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge options question

2009-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:44:30 Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Hello all, I followed the gentoo instructions to properly update to the new version of GCC. I read from other posts that it isn't truly nessecary to re-emerge any packages for this particular upgrade, but i'm still fairly new to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:16:37 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: Q: Why is top-posting evil? A: .backwards read don't humans because OK. Everyone that hates top posting please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:16:37 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:21 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: Q: Why is top-posting evil? A: .backwards read don't humans because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-04-02 Thread Tom
I have since fsck'ed all relevant partitions in /dev/hda and they came up clean. Am I safe? Hmm, I'd say yes. I mean, in what way should using hdparm really mess up your partitions or Filesystems in such a way, that they'd be beyond recovery?! I'm not implying that you could be facing a

[gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-02 Thread Pongrácz István
Hello Everybody, I have a laptop with Intel 945GM videochip. I use ~x86 and I expected a very bad opengl performance afte I switched to intel driver from 2.5.x to 2.6. The compiz and playing video were very slow, independently of the CPU usage. So, after all I downgraded the xf86-video-intel

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:52:25 +0200 Pongrácz István pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everybody, I have a laptop with Intel 945GM videochip. I use ~x86 and I expected a very bad opengl performance afte I switched to intel driver from 2.5.x to 2.6. The compiz and playing video were

[gentoo-user] Re: Postfix, courier-imap: checks if working

2009-04-02 Thread James
laurent laurent at logiquefloue.org writes: I'm following this how to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml Well I took a quick glance at this document. It does not discuss or show how to use DNS or more specifically MX records. As such setting up email, specific to a Domain

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-02 Thread Pongrácz István
eredeti üzenet- Feladó: Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net Címzett: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Dátum: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:56:59 +0600 - Did you try to use it with GEM in .28/.29 kernels? I believe GEM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda on running system

2009-04-02 Thread Jorge Morais
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:23:55 +0200 Tom uebersh...@googlemail.com wrote: I have since fsck'ed all relevant partitions in /dev/hda and they came up clean. Am I safe? Hmm, I'd say yes. I mean, in what way should using hdparm really mess up your partitions or Filesystems in such a way, that

[gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages. As these packages were

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:49 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Dale
Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... This doesn't seem to be a built-in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: You should *never* use --prune. It's only there for people looking for interesting ways to break their systems. The fact that it didn't remove anything indicates that maybe you don't have multiple slots of a package installed and you just got lucky. Hi, are you

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-02 Thread Pongrácz István
Did you try to use it with GEM in .28/.29 kernels? I believe GEM technology of the latest kernels should be the focus of latest releases. Hi Mike, Could you explain this GEM technology a little bit more? I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.29 + lates (2.6.3) intel driver, but I get half

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-02 Thread Mick
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Dale wrote: Over time, I agree with bottom posting. It just makes sense. So does pruning endless lines of umpteen previous messages that have been answered and are not relevant to the latest message response ... (I am looking at you here Dale to make us proud next

Re: [gentoo-user] Nmap 4.85BETA5 ebuild (Conficker scanning)

2009-04-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Stroller wrote: This command performs the scan: nmap -PN -T4 -p139,445 -n -v --script=smb-check-vulns --script-args safe=1 192.168.0.0/16 Does this mean that if you have shut down ports 139 445 on the MSWIndows machine Conficker cannot work? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:02 +0200, KH wrote: Hi, are you saying, that --prune is broken? No. That was the OP's assertion.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and a Geforce FX-5200 card.

2009-04-02 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: So does pruning endless lines of umpteen previous messages that have been answered and are not relevant to the latest message response ... (I am looking at you here Dale to make us proud next time). ;-) How can we forget ... sigh :D But I may take out something

[gentoo-user] lynx - cookies

2009-04-02 Thread Joseph
Can anybody provide configuration for Lynx to accept cookies. Under options, I have: Cookies (!) : [ask user__] If I go to Google it asks if I want cookies but if I browse to https page it does not ask for cookies acceptance. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-04-02 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the long run. I can only

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: xf86-video-intel 2.6.x Bad opengl performance

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:19:17 +0200 Pongrácz István pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote: Could you explain this GEM technology a little bit more? I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.29 + lates (2.6.3) intel driver, but I get half performance than with 2.5.x intel driver. AFAIK you need a fairly recent

[gentoo-user] Locations section of GNOME calendar dropdown always hidden

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, The Locations part of the drop-down calendar in GNOME is always closed when I look at it. Is there an option somewhere I'm missing which controls this behavior? I'd like it to always stay open. Thanks, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx - cookies

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:22:18 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody provide configuration for Lynx to accept cookies. I assume that by to accept cookies you mean don't ask, just accept... Under options, I have: Cookies (!) : [ask user__] ...but that part puzzles me then ;) If

Re: [gentoo-user] lynx - cookies

2009-04-02 Thread Joseph
On 04/03/09 10:35, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:22:18 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody provide configuration for Lynx to accept cookies. I assume that by to accept cookies you mean don't ask, just accept... Under options, I have: Cookies (!) : [ask user__]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-04-02 Thread Thanasis
on 03/27/2009 07:32 AM Dale wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? Dale You can