[gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-22 Thread 김무성
My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10

And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9

Up-to-date gcc.

When I install vmware-server, ./vmware-install.pl

there is an error.

This is error information

 

--

/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1781: error: too many arguments 
to function 'smp_call_function'

make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10'

make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'

Unable to build the vmmon module.

 

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please

visit our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html; and

http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html;.

 

Execution aborted.

--

 

So I found solution searching in google.

It’s tell me There is an patch.

I got Vmware-any-any-patch through ftp.

And execute patch, But same error

 

 

What is a solution?

Help me.

 

 



[gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello !

Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to
use, how do I make a reliable backup ?

Can I follow the guide on:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD

Is that a proven/working method ?

/ Thomas


Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-22 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2009/4/22 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr:
 My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10

 And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9

 Up-to-date gcc.

 When I install vmware-server, ./vmware-install.pl

 there is an error.

 This is error information



 --

 /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1781: error: too many
 arguments to function 'smp_call_function'

 make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1

 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2

 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10'

 make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2

 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'

 Unable to build the vmmon module.



 For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please

 visit our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html;
 and

 http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html;.



 Execution aborted.

 --



 So I found solution searching in google.

 It’s tell me There is an patch.

 I got Vmware-any-any-patch through ftp.

 And execute patch, But same error





 What is a solution?

 Help me.





If 1.0.9 is not a necessity, you may want to try vmware-server in
portage(1.0.8) instead.

$ sudo emerge -pv vmware-server
[ebuild  N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2  483 kB
[ebuild  N] app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.8.126538  104,611 kB

As an addition, if you build kernel manually, turning CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS on
beforehand or vmware-modules will refuse to compile.

$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ sudo make menuconifg
  (Kernel hacking) -- (Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols) -- (y)
$ sudo make  make modules_install

Boot the machine with new kernel and issue the above 'emerge' command
should bring
you a working vmware-server.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jyo



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Dale
Thomas Chef wrote:
 Hello !
  
 Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I
 want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
  
 Can I follow the guide on:
 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD
  
 Is that a proven/working method ?
  
 / Thomas

A lot of people recommend mondo-rescue.  I think it creates a bootable
CD/DVD and you can restore from there.  I have never used this but it
gets mentioned a lot.

Also, just look around in app-backup and see what you can find.  You may
find something that better suites your needs. 

For me, I use Kbackup to back up my data, portage tree, and config files
that I can use to rebuild from.  It works well enough for me.  It will
even size the tarballs to fit on the CD/DVD too.  This would mean
recompiling everything again but that's just me.

Most of this will depend on what you are needing to backup, whether you
want a command line tool or GUI and a few other odds and ends. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 



Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
 On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote:
 On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey

 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
  On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote:
  I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to
  skins/default/usr/src/linux, which seems to be invalid.
 
  Where did you get the skins part of that? It isn't in what I posted.

 Please take a deeper look at your first post... It is in your SYSSRC
make
 parameter.
 
 I've read the post backwards and forwards, and I've had kmail search 
 case-insensitively for skin, and it isn't there. It wasn't there when I

 sent it, anyway, and grep says it isn't in the files I've attached this 
 time either.

In fact you're right, it seems that my webmail (Roundcube) add the
skins/default part i saw earlier in your first post... Looking at the mail
source and there is no skins/default part.
Apologize :)

 Can you please post emerge --info and the full output from emerge
 nvidia-drivers ?
 
 Attached. Also:
 
 $ uname -r
 2.6.29-gentoo-r1
 
 $ ls -l /usr/src/linux
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-04-05 09:15 /usr/src/linux - 
 linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1
 
 Thanks for your time.

Do you run make prepare in the kernel source tree with your kernel
configured ?

-- 
  Xavier Parizet
YaGB :   http://gentooist.com
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1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Jacques Montier
Thomas Chef a gentiment tapote:
 Hello !
  
 Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I
 want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
  
 Can I follow the guide on:
 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD
  
 Is that a proven/working method ?
  
 / Thomas
Hi,

I use partimage with SysRescueCD (live CD) for years.
It works really fine and is very reliable !
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Cheers,

--
Jacques



Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Paul Hartman
 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio

 I think that one should do it.


 Also, according to
 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html there is a
 cd-audio plugin which is part of gst-plugins-bad which might be an
 even better choice :)


I'm going to go with this one. I'm writing/testing a gst-plugins-bad
ebuild right now :)



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote:

 Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to
 use, how do I make a reliable backup ?

 Can I follow the guide on:
 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD

 Is that a proven/working method ?

Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and does not always like to read 
continuation volumes from multi volume archives. This is extremely nasty as
you will realize the problem once it is too late.

GNU tar also does not support to archive all meta data from Linux.

I recommend to use star. Star implementes reliable multi volume support and 
archives all meta data that is available on Linux. Only a reliable multi volume 
support inside the archiver allows you to read back archives starting past 
volume#1.

Note that star also implements a nice true incremental backup feature that
does not need additional data while creating backups. There is a database
for old and new inode numbers in incremental restore mode.

Check the star man page for examples on backups and incremental backups.

Use tsize=4200k -multivol to tell star to write archives with multi volume 
information that split files across volumes.

Use mkisofs to create a ISO filesystem (hve a look at the  -stream-media-size
option.

Use cdrecord to write the ISO file to DVD.

Jörg

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   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:49:19 Xavier Parizet wrote:
 In fact you're right, it seems that my webmail (Roundcube) add the
 skins/default part i saw earlier in your first post... Looking at the
 mail source and there is no skins/default part.
 Apologize :)

Thanks. You had me worried for a while! It's an odd problem that caused it 
though.

 Do you run make prepare in the kernel source tree with your kernel
 configured ?

No, when going up a revision level I just copy in the previous .config and 
make oldconfig to check that no new variables have been introduced; then I 
make  make modules_install.

-- 
Rgds
Peter



Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Paul Hartman
 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com 
  wrote:
  media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio
 
  I think that one should do it.
 

 Also, according to
 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html there is a
 cd-audio plugin which is part of gst-plugins-bad which might be an
 even better choice :)

Be careful, using libcdio fro, Gstreamer is a license violation (LGPL code 
calling GPL code) and libcdio itself is in Copyright violation as the 
maintainer did change the license from GPLv2-only to something else without 
permission from the Authors.

I am not sure about what you are talking about, but there is a much better
solution based on cdda2wav. I wrote this solution together with Brian Cameron 
from Sun.



Jörg

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   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
 On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote:
 On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey

 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
  On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote:
  I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make paremeter which is set to
  skins/default/usr/src/linux, which seems to be invalid.
 
  Where did you get the skins part of that? It isn't in what I posted.

 Please take a deeper look at your first post... It is in your SYSSRC
make
 parameter.
 
 I've read the post backwards and forwards, and I've had kmail search 
 case-insensitively for skin, and it isn't there. It wasn't there when I

 sent it, anyway, and grep says it isn't in the files I've attached this 
 time either.
 
 Can you please post emerge --info and the full output from emerge
 nvidia-drivers ?
 
 Attached. Also:
 
 $ uname -r
 2.6.29-gentoo-r1
 
 $ ls -l /usr/src/linux
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-04-05 09:15 /usr/src/linux - 
 linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1
 
 Thanks for your time.

Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command
is launched.
Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before.

-- 
  Xavier Parizet
YaGB :   http://gentooist.com
GPG  :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 
1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408



Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong keyboard map in Fluxbox

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
Hi all,

I found the silly reason: slim set NumLock to be active and that does
not turn out to be a good thing on a notebook.

Thanks for the tip anyway!

--
Best regards,
 Marco



Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm going to go with this one. I'm writing/testing a gst-plugins-bad
 ebuild right now :)

Taking this one back. Playing around using gst-launch-0.10 with
various cd reading sources (cdiocddasrc, cdparanoiasrc, cdaudio) tells
me (1) i probably dont need cdio, and (2) cdaudio doesn't feel like
it's doing the right thing (hardcoded /dev/cdrom name).

Also, what appears to be the case (and probably what confused me) is
that cdparanoia and friends CAN read audio CDs. It just seems to fess
up when it's reading mixed data/audio CDs and outputs me garbage.

Now I don't yet know if this is because it can't read mixed data/audio
tracks or because the Might and Magic CDs are in a
not-exactlly-compliant format that just happens to read fine on
windows. I'll pop in a few playstation CDs and see how that works out.

At any rate, though, it seems to doubly stump me that totem isn't
registering the gstreamer cdda source even though rhythmbox is reading
it just fine. I'll double check the totem ebuild and check if there's
a configure option that's not in the use flags. Sane?



Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
 Also, what appears to be the case (and probably what confused me) is
 that cdparanoia and friends CAN read audio CDs. It just seems to fess
 up when it's reading mixed data/audio CDs and outputs me garbage.
Oh, and not to derail my own topic, but it's been a while since I've
listened to Ozzy :D



[gentoo-user] xorg upgrade: cannot play video files after suspend to ram

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Wood
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Hi all,
after upgrading xorg I experience the following problem:
Video will play fine with any player (vlc, mplayer) before hibernate-ram.
computer wakes up ok from hibernate-ram, however when I try
playing video now, my screen turns black(sometimes I get some vertical
lines across the screen). I cannot kill x, get a console or log in
remotely, so the only thing I can do is to use the magic key combination
to reboot the computer. I cannot find any useful information in any of
the log files that could help pinpoint what the cause of the problem is.
I already recompiled libXv and libXvMC, but that did not change anything
either. I am running xorg without config file only a minimal fdi file.
Can anyone help me?


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[gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy,

Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few
months of single monitor suffering.  But now when KDM start I get half a
screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right
half of the right monitor.  OK, should just need to set the background
image.  So head over to Computer, System Settings, Advanced, Login
Manager but got a problem, everything there is disabled.  Docs imply
there should be an Admin button but it's not there (Have: Help,
Defaults, Reset(disabled),  Apply(disabled)).

Thinking, oh well, off to /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and
set GreeterScreen to -1 (the only multi display setting I saw) to see
what happens.  Ran genkdmconf.  Restarted xdm.  No change.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Roy




[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
Hi all,

I am trying to get my wireless adapter (Intel 3945ABG) running.
following the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi I
compiled the kernel accordingly. Now the howto states:

 For kernel 2.6.27 and later, use the second slot(version 228.57.2.21)
which needs to be unmasked in package.keywords.

Since I am rather new to gentoo, I am not really sure what to do. I added

=net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-228.57.2.21 ~amd64

to /etc/portage/package.keywords to use the version mentioned. Testing
what would be installed:

emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode --pretend --verbose

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.28.1.6  66 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 66 kB

So version 15.28.1.6 would be used... What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

--
Best regards,
 Marco



Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb:
 Hi all,
 
 I am trying to get my wireless adapter (Intel 3945ABG) running.
 following the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi I
 compiled the kernel accordingly. Now the howto states:
 
  For kernel 2.6.27 and later, use the second slot(version 228.57.2.21)
 which needs to be unmasked in package.keywords.
 

You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to
iwl4965.

If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything.
I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.28.1.6.

For iwl4965, I don't see any versions which are not marked stable (I'm
on AMD64).




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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp
li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
 Marco schrieb:
[...]
 You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to
 iwl4965.

 If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything.
 I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.28.1.6.

 For iwl4965, I don't see any versions which are not marked stable (I'm
 on AMD64).

I see. It was not really clear to me if it is only related to 4965 or
if it also is true for the 3945. Thanks for pointing out!

One more question: I followed the howto for Intel 3945 and also the
handbook ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4
). I am using wpa_supplicant. But I think I am missing now a
configuration for /etc/init.d/net. What information do I have to
provide there?



Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb:
 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp
 li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
 Marco schrieb:
 [...]
 You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to
 iwl4965.

 If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything.
 I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.28.1.6.

 For iwl4965, I don't see any versions which are not marked stable (I'm
 on AMD64).
 
 I see. It was not really clear to me if it is only related to 4965 or
 if it also is true for the 3945. Thanks for pointing out!
 
 One more question: I followed the howto for Intel 3945 and also the
 handbook ( 
 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4
 ). I am using wpa_supplicant. But I think I am missing now a
 configuration for /etc/init.d/net. What information do I have to
 provide there?
 

modules_wlan0=( wpa_supplicant )
where wlan0 is your wlan interface.

If you want different settings for different nets, you can do things
like this:

config_ESSID1=( 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 )
routes_ESSID1=( default via 192.168.2.1 )
dns_servers_ESSID1=( 192.168.4.1 )
config_ESSID2=( dhcp )

Otherwise, dhcp is assumed.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Alejandro
2009/4/22 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net

 Marco schrieb:
  On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp
  li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
  Marco schrieb:
  [...]
  You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to
  iwl4965.
 
  If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything.
  I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.28.1.6.
 
  For iwl4965, I don't see any versions which are not marked stable (I'm
  on AMD64).
 
  I see. It was not really clear to me if it is only related to 4965 or
  if it also is true for the 3945. Thanks for pointing out!
 
  One more question: I followed the howto for Intel 3945 and also the
  handbook (
 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=4
  ). I am using wpa_supplicant. But I think I am missing now a
  configuration for /etc/init.d/net. What information do I have to
  provide there?
 

 modules_wlan0=( wpa_supplicant )
 where wlan0 is your wlan interface.

 If you want different settings for different nets, you can do things
 like this:

 config_ESSID1=( 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 )
 routes_ESSID1=( default via 192.168.2.1 )
 dns_servers_ESSID1=( 192.168.4.1 )
 config_ESSID2=( dhcp )

 Otherwise, dhcp is assumed.


 You can try Wicd which is  a great network manager, until you are more
familiar with gentoo/wifi configuration.
 I have the same chip, with wpa2, wicd handless this without problems.


Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:24:00AM +0200, Penguin Lover Thomas Chef squawked:
 Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to
 use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
 

Personally I use app-backup/rdiff-backup and dump not to DVD, but to
an external harddrive stored in a different room on a different floor.
(Yes, the building may collapse, but then I'd have bigger things to
worry about than my family photos.) 

rdiff-backup does incrementals. So it also allows me to keep several
restore points. I generally remove all restore points older than 6
months. But it is up to you. 

I just run a bash-script every month or so that
  * copies /var/lib/portage/world to /root
  * copies /usr/src/linux/.config to /root
  * back up /etc, /root, /usr/local
  * back up /home
With those files I can rebuild my system fairly simply. (I wouldn't
say quickly as... you know how long some things takes to build.)

W
-- 
Let me just make k -1.
Mathematica responds : False
~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205
Sortir en Pantoufles: up 866 days, 12:41



Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote:
 Howdy,

 Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few
 months of single monitor suffering.  But now when KDM start I get half a
 screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right
 half of the right monitor.  OK, should just need to set the background
 image.  So head over to Computer, System Settings, Advanced, Login
 Manager but got a problem, everything there is disabled.  Docs imply
 there should be an Admin button but it's not there (Have: Help,
 Defaults, Reset(disabled),  Apply(disabled)).

 Thinking, oh well, off to /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and
 set GreeterScreen to -1 (the only multi display setting I saw) to see
 what happens.  Ran genkdmconf.  Restarted xdm.  No change.

 Any ideas?

KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be
a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of
screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on
the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not
appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to
do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as
your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3
theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people
haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet.



[gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things
that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For
example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text:

prog

the prog is given a red background.  Even if I use ':syntax off', it is
still red.

What is causing this to happen?  This makes it very hard to edit code
since strings are colored red, causing a red-on-red issue where you
can't read the text at all.

Thanks,
Chris



Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Chris Lieb wrote:
 I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things
 that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For
 example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text:

 prog

 the prog is given a red background.  Even if I use ':syntax off', it is
 still red.

 What is causing this to happen?  This makes it very hard to edit code
 since strings are colored red, causing a red-on-red issue where you
 can't read the text at all.

 Thanks,
 Chris

   
You don't happen to have searched for prog last do you? try hitting
/z (assuming you don't have  in the file...) in command mode
and see if the highlight goes away.




Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
2009/4/22 Anthony Metcalf ne...@anferny.me.uk:
 Chris Lieb wrote:
 I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things
 that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For
 example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text:

 prog

 the prog is given a red background.  Even if I use ':syntax off', it is
 still red.

 What is causing this to happen?  This makes it very hard to edit code
 since strings are colored red, causing a red-on-red issue where you
 can't read the text at all.

 You don't happen to have searched for prog last do you? try hitting
 /z (assuming you don't have  in the file...) in command mode
 and see if the highlight goes away.

Maybe the spell checker is enabled?
:set nospell



[gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working.
When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two),
the print button is greyed out.  With print to file, the button is
live and the pdf file is successfully created

I can print via lpr.

If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine),
I can print test pages to either machine.

Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is
greyed out?

thanks,
allan



Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:

 For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working.
 When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two),
 the print button is greyed out.  With print to file, the button is
 live and the pdf file is successfully created

 I can print via lpr.

 If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine),
 I can print test pages to either machine.

 Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is
 greyed out?

Some further information.
Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out.

I have the newest stable poppler/evince installed and recall that
have upgraded poppler recently.  Should I be downgrading.

Below is the output of eix -I poppler -o evince

thanks,
allan

allan gottlieb # eix -I poppler -o evince
[I] app-text/evince
 Available versions:  2.22.2-r1!t 2.24.2!t {dbus debug djvu doc dvi gnome 
gnome-keyring nautilus t1lib tiff}
 Installed versions:  2.24.2!t(11:04:44 03/11/09)(dbus doc gnome-keyring 
tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -nautilus -t1lib)
 Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
 Description: Simple document viewer for GNOME

[I] app-text/poppler
 Available versions:  0.8.7 0.10.4 ~0.10.5 0.10.5-r1 {cjk doc jpeg zlib}
 Installed versions:  0.10.5-r1(16:53:09 04/18/09)(doc)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base

[I] app-text/poppler-bindings
 Available versions:  0.8.7 0.10.4 ~0.10.5 0.10.5-r1 {cairo gtk qt3 qt4 
test}
 Installed versions:  0.10.5-r1(16:53:53 04/18/09)(cairo gtk -qt3 -qt4 
-test)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: rendering bindings for GUI toolkits for poppler

[I] app-text/poppler-data
 Available versions:  0.2.1
 Installed versions:  0.2.1(18:35:31 02/26/09)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: Data files for poppler to support uncommon encodings 
without xpdfrc

[I] virtual/poppler
 Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v
 Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:54:03 04/18/09)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: Virtual package, includes packages that contain 
libpoppler-glib.so

[I] virtual/poppler-glib
 Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v {cairo}
 Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:54:08 04/18/09)(cairo)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: Virtual package, includes packages that contain 
libpoppler-glib.so

[I] virtual/poppler-utils
 Available versions:  0.8.7+v 0.10.4+v 0.10.5+v ~0.10.6+v {abiword}
 Installed versions:  0.10.5+v(16:53:58 04/18/09)(abiword)
 Homepage:http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
 Description: Virtual package, includes packages that contain the 
psto* utilities

Found 7 matches.



[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Simon
hi there,
  i'm looking for suggestions and guidance.  I have a vps host with
gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good
quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal.  I
need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to
the internet and use voip or similar services.

  I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good
'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)!

I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the
past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than
my girlfriend ever dreamed of!  It seems extremely difficult to setup,
specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good
guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and
if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly...

I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered
by these...
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk

Thanks for any help!

-- 
When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a
primitive place, militarily speaking.  The only weapon they had ever
invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction
bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. -
Asimov



[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
On 4/22/2009 10:36 AM, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
 Chris Lieb wrote:
 I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things
 that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For
 example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text:

 prog

 the prog is given a red background.  Even if I use ':syntax off', it is
 still red.

 What is causing this to happen?  This makes it very hard to edit code
 since strings are colored red, causing a red-on-red issue where you
 can't read the text at all.

 Thanks,
 Chris


 You don't happen to have searched for prog last do you? try hitting
 /z (assuming you don't have  in the file...) in command mode
 and see if the highlight goes away.

Nope. It happens with other bits of text in strings also, not just prog.
 Even how, I think search highlights with gold/yellow, not red.



[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
On 4/22/2009 11:09 AM, Mark wrote:
 2009/4/22 Anthony Metcalf ne...@anferny.me.uk:
 Chris Lieb wrote:
 I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things
 that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For
 example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text:

 prog

 the prog is given a red background.  Even if I use ':syntax off', it is
 still red.

 What is causing this to happen?  This makes it very hard to edit code
 since strings are colored red, causing a red-on-red issue where you
 can't read the text at all.
 You don't happen to have searched for prog last do you? try hitting
 /z (assuming you don't have  in the file...) in command mode
 and see if the highlight goes away.
 
 Maybe the spell checker is enabled?
 :set nospell
 
That was it.  Thanks all.




Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote:
  Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want
  to use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
 
  Can I follow the guide on:
  http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD
 
  Is that a proven/working method ?

 Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and does not always like to read
 continuation volumes from multi volume archives. This is extremely nasty as
 you will realize the problem once it is too late.

oh really? it works very well with my tapelib. And yes, restore works.



 GNU tar also does not support to archive all meta data from Linux.

which is only relevant if you use acls, isn't it?


 I recommend to use star. Star implementes reliable multi volume support and
 archives all meta data that is available on Linux. Only a reliable multi
 volume support inside the archiver allows you to read back archives
 starting past volume#1.

can star decompress files?





[gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
Hello All-

I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded Failed to
activate desktop effects using the given configuration options...
dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
Advanced tab, but no love.

Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.

Anyone have any clues


Thanks!

-James


Xorg.0.log
Description: Binary data


glxinfo.log
Description: Binary data


xorg.conf
Description: Binary data


Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All-

 I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
 different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
 different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
 everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
 or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
 glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
 try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded Failed to
 activate desktop effects using the given configuration options...
 dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
 Advanced tab, but no love.

 Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.

 Anyone have any clues

Try to comment out all Option lines from the Device section of
your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver.
This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me.



Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, James Ausmus wrote:
 Hello All-

 I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
 different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
 different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
 everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
 or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
 glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
 try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded Failed to
 activate desktop effects using the given configuration options...
 dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
 Advanced tab, but no love.

 Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.

 Anyone have any clues


 Thanks!

 -James

shorten your conf to this and retry:
Section ServerLayout
Identifier Simple Layout
Screen Screen 1 0 0
InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer
InputDeviceKeyboard1 CoreKeyboard
EndSection

Section Files
EndSection

Section Module

Load   dbe# Double buffer extension
Load   extmod
Loadglx
EndSection

Section InputDevice

Identifier Keyboard1
Driver kbd
Option AutoRepeat 250 30
Option XkbRules xorg
Option XkbModel pc104
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection

Section InputDevice

Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
Option Protocol Auto# Auto detect
Option Device /dev/input/mice
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier HP_L2045w
Option  DPMS true
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier  nv8400
Driver  nvidia
EndSection

Section Screen
Identifier Screen 1
Device nv8400
MonitorHP_L2045w
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection





Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
snip
 Anyone have any clues

 Try to comment out all Option lines from the Device section of
 your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver.
 This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me.


No luck - exact same behavior as before... :(



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
  Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote:
   Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want
   to use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
  
   Can I follow the guide on:
   http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD
  
   Is that a proven/working method ?
 
  Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and does not always like to read
  continuation volumes from multi volume archives. This is extremely nasty as
  you will realize the problem once it is too late.

 oh really? it works very well with my tapelib. And yes, restore works.

There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to restore
enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100 
multi-volume archives?

GNU tar uses a method for multi-volume archives that cannot support all 
possible cases. Star uses a mwthod that is granted to always work reliably.


  GNU tar also does not support to archive all meta data from Linux.

 which is only relevant if you use acls, isn't it?

ACLs, xattrs and others.


  I recommend to use star. Star implementes reliable multi volume support and
  archives all meta data that is available on Linux. Only a reliable multi
  volume support inside the archiver allows you to read back archives
  starting past volume#1.

 can star decompress files?

Are you kidding?

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All-

 I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several
 different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several
 different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51),
 everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors
 or warnings from the nvidia drivers in the Xorg.0.log, glxgears and
 glxinfo work properly and output the expected information, but when I
 try to enable Desktop Effects, all I get is the dreaded Failed to
 activate desktop effects using the given configuration options...
 dialog. I've tried all the different combos of settings under the
 Advanced tab, but no love.

 Attached are my xorg.conf, my Xorg.0.log, and my glxinfo output.

 Anyone have any clues

Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need
opengl as well.



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
  On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
   Thomas Chef thomas.c...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I
want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ?
   
Can I follow the guide on:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD
   
Is that a proven/working method ?
  
   Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and does not always like to read
   continuation volumes from multi volume archives. This is extremely
   nasty as you will realize the problem once it is too late.
 
  oh really? it works very well with my tapelib. And yes, restore works.

 There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to
 restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100
 multi-volume archives?

No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges. So far no 
problems. I did maybe four or five complete restores so far. Before that I had 
a single dlt drive and played disc jokey - no problems there too. So I am well 
below the 100 multi-volume archives, but well above the 30 mark.


 GNU tar uses a method for multi-volume archives that cannot support all
 possible cases. Star uses a mwthod that is granted to always work reliably.

   GNU tar also does not support to archive all meta data from Linux.
 
  which is only relevant if you use acls, isn't it?

 ACLs, xattrs and others.


okay. Then tar is still good enough for me. 

See, it is a good thing that you wrote star (and cdrecord and other things). 
Your code is much appreciated - but I am very reluctant to use a piece of 
software when another one I am currently using is 'good enough' for me.
Since I don't use acls or xattrs the lack of support in gnu tar does not hurt 
me. I also had a hard time to figure out the optimal command line to use my 
tapelib - I don't want to do that again with star if I don't have to.

   I recommend to use star. Star implementes reliable multi volume support
   and archives all meta data that is available on Linux. Only a reliable
   multi volume support inside the archiver allows you to read back
   archives starting past volume#1.
 
  can star decompress files?

 Are you kidding?

nope. 
http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/

For some reason, my tar hung on Solaris. I have no idea why. truss showed that 
it wasn't in a syscall at that time. So I used star instead. Turns out that 
star can't do star xzf -, it will say Can only compress files. ROTFL! OK, 
so I used |gzip -dc|star xf - instead. What the hell.




Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
 shorten your conf to this and retry:
snip

Thanks, but same result with the new xorg.conf...



[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread John covici
Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free,
but I am not sure where to get it.

on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote
  hi there,
i'm looking for suggestions and guidance.  I have a vps host with
  gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good
  quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal.  I
  need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to
  the internet and use voip or similar services.
  
I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good
  'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)!
  
  I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the
  past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than
  my girlfriend ever dreamed of!  It seems extremely difficult to setup,
  specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good
  guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and
  if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly...
  
  I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered
  by these...
  http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo
  http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk
  
  Thanks for any help!
  
  -- 
  When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a
  primitive place, militarily speaking.  The only weapon they had ever
  invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction
  bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. -
  Asimov

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
snip
 Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need
 opengl as well.

Output of emerge -pv kwin:

[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2  USE=captury opengl xcomposite
xinerama -debug -kdeprefix 0 kB

So, all already enabled... :(

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

-James



Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400
Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote:

 hi there,
   i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. 

[]

I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, 
so here's my... $.02.

   I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good
 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)!
 
 I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, 

[]

Don't. Your GF will hate you for wasting your time.

 I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered
 by these...
 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo
 http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk
 
 Thanks for any help!
 

Asterisk is unlike most other open source projects I've seen. Free help doesn't 
exist, really -- there's just too much money to be made replacing proprietary 
telco hardware for folks to enjoy educing that aha! moment.

All would tell you, at your hourly rate, choosing to roll your own asterisk 
install on Gentoo is probably the most expensive option available to you. 

Anyway, it can be done. #gentoo-voip are helpful folks, but unless you have a 
real reason to know asterisk, really, don't bother... it's huge PITA for just 
getting a phone.

Even if you do decide to kill that gnat with a sledgehammer, you're better off 
with Trixbox, astlinux or something you can pretty much expect some help with. 
(So I hear.)

If all you want is to use a SIP trunk, my local telco monopoly, for example, 
will rent me a box to plug a phone into for a fixed monthly fee and unlimited 
calling. Or, you can probably get any Dahdi compat fxs card and plug a phone 
into your gentoo box. Or just get a SIP phone... plug into your router.

Basically, there are so many options, it's bewildering. From my (limited) 
experience with it, I'd say that Asterisk is really more of a place to create 
telco appliances from computers, not an application you run with other things 
as an afterthought, just because you can.

But, then again, you already run Gentoo, so you are familiar with needless 
self-inflicted pain as a pastime. Asterisk may be just for you, too! ;-)

Cheers,

-- 
 |\  /||   |  ~ ~  
 | \/ ||---|  `|` ?
 ||ichael  |   |iggins\^ /
 michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

  There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to
  restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100
  multi-volume archives?

 No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges. So far no 
 problems. I did maybe four or five complete restores so far. Before that I 
 had 
 a single dlt drive and played disc jokey - no problems there too. So I am 
 well 
 below the 100 multi-volume archives, but well above the 30 mark.

For me it happened with the second try A few years after I made a bug 
report, the GNU tar maintainers made the probability for this to happen a bit 
lower but they did not change the basic format that cannot support all cases.

  ACLs, xattrs and others.
 

 okay. Then tar is still good enough for me. 

Well, there is no tar on Linux.

GNU tar is not tar and GNU tar still does not by default write tar compatible
archives. Star is much closer to tar than GNU tar is... 

 See, it is a good thing that you wrote star (and cdrecord and other things). 
 Your code is much appreciated - but I am very reluctant to use a piece of 
 software when another one I am currently using is 'good enough' for me.
 Since I don't use acls or xattrs the lack of support in gnu tar does not hurt 
 me. I also had a hard time to figure out the optimal command line to use my 
 tapelib - I don't want to do that again with star if I don't have to.

If you trust GNU tar, this is your personal decision. I definitely don't trust 
GNU tar.

Every time I was considering to implement a feature (seen first in GNU tar) for 
star, I thought about possible implementation problems and I _always_ found a 
GNU tar bus in less than 5 minutes. The fact that fixing GNU tar bugs I 
reported to the GNU tar maintainers did take between 2 and 15 years makes me 
asume that GNU tar is not well maintained.


   can star decompress files?
 
  Are you kidding?

 nope. 
 http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/

 For some reason, my tar hung on Solaris. I have no idea why. truss showed 
 that 
 it wasn't in a syscall at that time. So I used star instead. Turns out that 
 star can't do star xzf -, it will say Can only compress files. ROTFL! OK, 
 so I used |gzip -dc|star xf - instead. What the hell.

Your mistake is to quote a well known troll.

This troll in special did use a command line that would expect him to manually 
type _compressed_ _tar_ _archives_ on his tty...

BTW: recent star versions would print star: Archive cannot be a tty. for his
useless command line.

Jörg

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[gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-22 Thread Kelly Hirai
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this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do?

kelly

 Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/phasex/phasex-0.11.1.ebuild,v 1.2
2007/10/17 07:53:48 mr_bones_ Exp $

DESCRIPTION=Software synthesizer (Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis
EXperiment)
HOMEPAGE=http://sysex.net/phasex/;
SRC_URI=http://sysex.net/phasex/${P}.tar.gz;

LICENSE=GPL-2
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~x86
IUSE=

DEPEND=media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit

src_install() {
emake DESTDIR=${D} install || die make install failed
dodoc AUTHORS README TODO doc/ROADMAP
}
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a+AAnjOBj5wt47Ybx9D3Aqavx7CnzXRm
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[gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Wince
All,
I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running 
gentoo-2.6.24.-r4.
# uname -a
Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 
PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I 
upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7.

Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following:

 Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file:

  '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'

 * Messages for package app-emulation/kvm-84:

 *
 * ERROR: app-emulation/kvm-84 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 * environment, line 3590:  Called linux-mod_src_compile
 * environment, line 2687:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   eval emake HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC)
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-  
LDFLAGS=$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)
${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS}  
${BUILD_TARGETS}  || die Unable to emake HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC) 
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS=$(get_abi_LDFLAGS) ${BUILD_FIXES} 
${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS};
 *  The die message:
 *   Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc 
CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS=   all
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'.

I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu

and in package.keywords I have
app-emulation/kvm ~x86

Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to 
be done to make this work.
Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it.

TIA,

brian



Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote:
 snip
 Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need
 opengl as well.

 Output of emerge -pv kwin:

 [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2  USE=captury opengl xcomposite
 xinerama -debug -kdeprefix 0 kB

 So, all already enabled... :(

 Any other thoughts?

Hmmm I have the same USE flags with the exception of xinerama. The
only other difference I can see in your xorg.conf is that you have
this section and I do not:

Section ServerFlags
Option AIGLX true
EndSection



Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu wrote:
 this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do?

Looks like the domain expired a few days ago... and according to
cached copies, he used that domain for his e-mail address as well. I
guess you hope someone else has a copy of the archive (I don't) and
can host it, or the author comes back at a different address.



Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote:
 snip
 Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need
 opengl as well.

 Output of emerge -pv kwin:

 [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2  USE=captury opengl xcomposite
 xinerama -debug -kdeprefix 0 kB

 So, all already enabled... :(

 Any other thoughts?

 Hmmm I have the same USE flags with the exception of xinerama. The
 only other difference I can see in your xorg.conf is that you have
 this section and I do not:

 Section ServerFlags
    Option         AIGLX true
 EndSection


With the latest xorg.conf from Volker even this is gone. I'll try
recompiling w/o xinerama USE flag, see what happens...

Thanks!

-James



Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote:

 Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make
 command is launched.
 Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before.

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make prepare
# MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge nvidia-drivers

This time it compiled just fine.

Things are getting complicated now, so I propose to leave well alone.

Thanks for the suggestions - I can't say which was effective, as I was tired 
and didn't think the steps through properly.

-- 
Rgds
Peter



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
   There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to
   restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than
   100 multi-volume archives?
 
  No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges. So far no
  problems. I did maybe four or five complete restores so far. Before that
  I had a single dlt drive and played disc jokey - no problems there too.
  So I am well below the 100 multi-volume archives, but well above the 30
  mark.

 For me it happened with the second try A few years after I made a bug
 report, the GNU tar maintainers made the probability for this to happen a
 bit lower but they did not change the basic format that cannot support all
 cases.

hm, well, that got me thinking. Because stable multi volume support is very 
important for me. More than being close to other tars. But - can I extract a 
multivolume tar archive created by star with gnu tar? The man page is not 
entirely clear and for restore I have to assume that star is not available.


   ACLs, xattrs and others.
 
  okay. Then tar is still good enough for me.

 Well, there is no tar on Linux.

 GNU tar is not tar and GNU tar still does not by default write tar
 compatible archives. Star is much closer to tar than GNU tar is...

well, IMHO this is a bit 'academic'. GNU tar does what I expect it to do - if 
there are differences, they don't seem to be relevant to me or most linux 
users. But I don't claim that I am the norm to measure against. You seem to 
have been running into trouble by this differences? 


  See, it is a good thing that you wrote star (and cdrecord and other
  things). Your code is much appreciated - but I am very reluctant to use a
  piece of software when another one I am currently using is 'good enough'
  for me. Since I don't use acls or xattrs the lack of support in gnu tar
  does not hurt me. I also had a hard time to figure out the optimal
  command line to use my tapelib - I don't want to do that again with star
  if I don't have to.

 If you trust GNU tar, this is your personal decision. I definitely don't
 trust GNU tar.

 Every time I was considering to implement a feature (seen first in GNU tar)
 for star, I thought about possible implementation problems and I _always_
 found a GNU tar bus in less than 5 minutes. The fact that fixing GNU tar
 bugs I reported to the GNU tar maintainers did take between 2 and 15 years
 makes me asume that GNU tar is not well maintained.


as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive 
created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a 
closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it look promising.



can star decompress files?
  
   Are you kidding?
 
  nope.
  http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/
 
  For some reason, my tar hung on Solaris. I have no idea why. truss showed
  that it wasn't in a syscall at that time. So I used star instead. Turns
  out that star can't do star xzf -, it will say Can only compress
  files. ROTFL! OK, so I used |gzip -dc|star xf - instead. What the
  hell.

 Your mistake is to quote a well known troll.

 This troll in special did use a command line that would expect him to
 manually type _compressed_ _tar_ _archives_ on his tty...

ah, okay that explains a lot.

Glück Auf,
Volker




Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote:
 On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote:
  Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make
  command is launched.
  Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before.

 # cd /usr/src/linux
 # make prepare
 # MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge nvidia-drivers

 This time it compiled just fine.

I reckon the maintainer of the nvidia-driver ebuild would be *very* interested 
in this. -j is well known for causing weird faults.

I recommend submitting a bug along with all build logs etc

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive 
 created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a 
 closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it look promising.

Star implements aprox. twice as many features than GNU tar. Star is even able to
extract most if not all of those multi volume GNU tar archives that GNU tar 
does 
not like (while not being able to verify whether the follow up archive is the 
right one). Star intentionally does not implement write support for GNU tar 
multi 
volume archives because the GNU tar format is not a good idea.

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
  as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume
  archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have
  to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it
  look promising.

 Star implements aprox. twice as many features than GNU tar. Star is even
 able to extract most if not all of those multi volume GNU tar archives that
 GNU tar does not like (while not being able to verify whether the follow up
 archive is the right one). Star intentionally does not implement write
 support for GNU tar multi volume archives because the GNU tar format is not
 a good idea.


so gnutar can not extract star multivolumes but star can extract gnutar 
multivolumes?

I just saw that systemrescuecd is costumizable - so this non-support by gnutar 
might not be a blocker afterall.

Glück Auf,
Volker



Re: [gentoo-user] evolution segfaults

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:26 +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote:
 On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:18:58 -0500, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 06:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
  On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  SNIP
   a...@catherine ~ $ evolution
   ** (evolution:19607): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
   ** (evolution:19607): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
   Segmentation fault
  
   Nothing shows up in ~/.xsession-errors.  Not much shows up
   in /var/log/messages:
  
   catherine X11 # grep evolution /var/log/messages
   Apr 17 22:25:56 catherine [133453.338825] evolution[24366]: segfault
 at
   36303632 ip b6def622 sp bff36500 error 4 in
   libcamel-provider-1.2.so.14.0.0[b6dcf000+59000]
  SNIP
  
  emerge -1pv libcamel-provider   ???
  revdep-rebuild -p ???
  
  A regular revdep-rebuild didn't come up with anything.  I'll try the
  libcamel-provider though.
 
 Can you post ulimit -a and free output ?
 It seems that you don't have enough memory which cause the kernel to kill
 your evolution process (according to the first /var/log/messages you post)
 
  
  
   catherine X11 # emerge -pv evolution
  
   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
  
   Calculating dependencies... done!
   [ebuild   R   ] mail-client/evolution-2.24.5  USE=crypt dbus hal nntp
   ssl -debug -kerberos -krb4 -ldap -mono -networkmanager -pda -profile
 0
   kB
  
  
  Why hal?
  
  Did you look in the gdm logs? (In /var/log/gdm)
  
  Note that I've had trouble on my wife's machine with segfaults since
  the xorg-server upgrade. I just downgraded my compiler and rebuilt the
  machine. Waste of time so far. Segfaults are still there.
  
  - Mark
 
 
catherine X11 # ulimit -a
core file size  (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size   (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 3583
max locked memory   (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files  (-n) 1024
pipe size(512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority  (-r) 0
stack size  (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes  (-u) 3583
virtual memory  (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks  (-x) unlimited
catherine X11 # free
 total   used   free sharedbuffers
cached
Mem:196656 184888  11768  0704
44132
-/+ buffers/cache: 140052  56604
Swap:   248968  77888 171080

If the computer doesn't have enough RAM NOW, why did evolution work just
fine for the past four years?