Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] what happened to mkfs.hfsplus

2009-07-05 Thread Joseph Jezak
mattmat...@mac.com wrote: i have hfsplusutils and hfsutils installed and can not find any util to make an hfs+ filesystem. i recall formatting several times before in the past. could anyone tell me how to format hfs+ or where mkfs.hfsplus went? matt It's part of diskdev_cmds, Apple's

[gentoo-user] KDE 4, dev-python/sip and dependency graph

2009-07-05 Thread Dale
Hi all, I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now. Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117 in new slots), Size of downloads: 390,805 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4, dev-python/sip and dependency graph

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote: Hi all, I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now. Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blocks, poppler, etc.

2009-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 05 July 2009 04:14:46 Alan E. Davis wrote: I am trying to install cb2bib from an overlay. The ebuild is on gentoo bugs. On this machine, over time, I have gotten qt to settle down, but now it's a mess. I have tried to install some dependencies with emerge -1 , but since I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4, dev-python/sip and dependency graph

2009-07-05 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote: Hi all, I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now. Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2

[gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-05 Thread Grant
I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] libtermcap

2009-07-05 Thread Roger Mason
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: How can I install libtermcap? if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes with the schily source consolidation: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ Many thanks Joerg, that

[gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Grant
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one? Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote: I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $ eix ^ntop [I] net-analyzer/ntop Available versions: 3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd} Installed

Re: [gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:39:31PM -0400, David Relson wrote Perhaps you should try to enable the svga use flag? Worth a try, though VGA graphics are all that's needed ... You need svgalib not for the resolution, but for the ability to do graphics on a text console. Before you build

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Matt Harrison
Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an external one?

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Heinrichs writes: Am Samstag 04 Juli 2009 14:51:54 schrieb Alex Schuster: Dirk Heinrichs writes: having said that, you can even do w/o initramfs, just put everything into /boot (which should be a separate partition, then). Again, see my reply to David for the details.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster: Dirk Heinrichs writes: And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it? It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I can find again. And meanwhile I also have a gpg-encrypted backup of the stick's

[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/04/2009 07:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2. I learned a while back I could get by

[gentoo-user] Re: pxe boot + nfs mountpoints

2009-07-05 Thread James
Any thoughts? On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jamesj...@nc.rr.com wrote: bump On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jamesj...@nc.rr.com wrote: Okay, I've gotten a little further by moving some of the runscripts to /etc/runlevel/boot. I still, however, can't seem to get /usr/ nfs mounted before

[gentoo-user] ext3 to ext4 safest and elaborate guide

2009-07-05 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
There are few ext3 to ext4 migration notes/guides. Can anybody advice the most elaborate safe one?

Re: [gentoo-user] DOSEMU

2009-07-05 Thread David Relson
Hello Walter, Your response is much appreciated (see notes below). David On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:24:41 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:39:31PM -0400, David Relson wrote Perhaps you should try to enable the svga use flag? Worth a try, though VGA graphics are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread felix
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, walt wrote: I started getting the same 'expected keysym' messages recently but my X continues to work okay anyway, so I think that's a red herring. Everything else works, just the keyboard is hosed, and those keysym messages sure seem suspiciously

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, July 4, 2009 22:54, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero squawked: On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Dale
Matt Harrison wrote: Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off

[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/05/2009 09:12 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, walt wrote: I started getting the same 'expected keysym' messages recently but my X continues to work okay anyway, so I think that's a red herring. Everything else works, just the keyboard is hosed,

[gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-05 Thread Daniel D Jones
I have Spamassasin running on my mail server rather than on my desktop box. I therefore can't run the Anti-Spam Wizard on KMail, since it correctly fails to detect a spam filter as installed. I have a mailbox configured on my server for spam. Any mail sent to that mailbox is used to train

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Heinrichs writes: Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster: Dirk Heinrichs writes: And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it? It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I can find again. And meanwhile I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. even if it's in a binary file on some server which probably no one will ever see and identify as a boot partition. I have my

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Heinrichs writes: Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetup. Or which would be asked at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 20:26:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetup. Or which would be asked at the prompt if I would not give it. OK, now I get it. But those are two different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote: I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created one for libdri.so... I'd be more worried about this than the keysym errors. I have xorg- server-1.6.1.902

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote: ... What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed, forwards the selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to the Spam folder. Any help in configuring this would be greatly appreciated. May I suggest a

[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote: I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created one for libdri.so... I'd be more worried about this than the keysym

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 July 2009, Mark Shields wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I know that rrdtool dump will export the rrd data into XML, but is there something to either directly or via rrdtool create a CSV file for me? Will probably want

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a laptop's

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage

2009-07-05 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote: I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data? $ eix ^ntop [I] net-analyzer/ntop Available versions: 3.3.9-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Dial-up while travelling?

2009-07-05 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009, Dale wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Grant wrote: I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on

[gentoo-user] gdm: No keyboard, no mouse

2009-07-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have done alot of upgrades lately, including an emerge -uDvaN world . When I got home after leaving this to run, the machine started up, but in gdm no keyboard or mouse input is happening. So I did the following: 1. put evdev into the INPUT_DEVICES section of /etc/make.conf 2. installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread felix
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:53:41PM -0700, walt wrote: On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml DRI is a kernel option. Interesting link, thanks. I see that for some ATI cards kernel support is needed, as you say. It doesn't seem to involve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread Zheng Guoqiang

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED!] gdm: No keyboard, no mouse

2009-07-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
As it turned out, I needed to emerge xf86-input-keyboard---at which point keyboard function was recovered, but mouse function was dead. Then I emerged xf86-input-mouse. The second thing I had to do was comment two lines in my xorg.conf: dri and xtrap. That was pretty easy. Alan Davis ...can