Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1

[gentoo-user] Re: Supercookies

2009-08-20 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Andrew Lewman wrote: On 08/20/2009 10:09 AM, Ted Smith wrote: You don't lose most functionality by using free software. Not picking on Ted, but this whole thread is off-topic. Arguably, this is very much on-topic. We all know to disable active content when trying to maximize/optimize

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think

[gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Hung Dang
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart: === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error messages. === X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg? It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own internal copy of ffmpeg's

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

2009-08-20 Thread Roger Cahn
Anyway, thanks for helping. Did you try python-updater? Regards Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg? It looks to me like that is correct, it appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming that mplayer on Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart: === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error messages. ===

[gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Yoav Luft
Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Dale
Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) say it could be installed in a few different

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luftyoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting from a clean system

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to cooperate,

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:44:10 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luftyoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since the specs

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-20 Thread Kevin Haddock
beta ~ # mdadm --manage --stop /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 beta ~ # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda1 has no superblock - assembly aborted beta ~ # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda: Device or

[gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Hunt
I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 August 2009 21:19:02 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzgerwar...@gmx.de wrote: Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like: Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash. kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP folders in quick succession. Kopete crashed

Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Huntchesemonkyl...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2009 12:37 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like: Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash. kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago. Stupid question, but did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

2009-08-20 Thread Yiannis
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:06:15 +0200 Roger Cahn rc...@club-internet.fr wrote: Anyway, thanks for helping. Did you try python-updater? Regards Roger yes, this is what I wrote in my initial post (I just misspelled it -python-upgrade -)

Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread pk
Simon Hunt wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread pk
Simon Hunt wrote: I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:40:07 Paul Hartman wrote: The available resolutions are highly dependent on your video hardware, though. And the BIOS. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have had both epiphany and firefox on my machine for quite a while, but the latest stable of each are now incompatible. Specifically they require incompatible versions of xulrunner. Is there a reason why epiphany cannot use xulrunner-1.9-1? thanks, allan

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD video. This is quite popular in the Windows world (most Windows builds of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up playback of full HD

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [] I rolled my own and it works very nicely :) If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed files: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154 This worked fine on my core I7 (hardened) box. Thank You

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 08/20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: === =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/', 'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge') === The latest version of epiphany is 2.26.3. try unmerging your epiphany first. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart

[gentoo-user] How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs

2009-08-20 Thread Song Zhiwei
Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot work. Regards, Zhiwei

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Beau Henderson
Keith Dart wrote: === On Thu, 08/20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: === =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/', 'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge') === The latest version of epiphany is 2.26.3. try unmerging your epiphany first. -- Keith Dart Not if your @stable.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2009 08:20 AM, Song Zhiwei wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot work. Mount points are specified in /etc/fstab. I

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 08/21, Beau Henderson wrote: === Not if your @stable. === But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===