Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox + wmdockapps ?

2009-09-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [09-09-14 04:03]: Just add it in ~/.fluxbox/startup like so: wmnd -c orange -I eth0,wlan0,irda0,ppp0 with your relevant ifaces that you want to monnitor. ...I read it would be sufficient to put

[gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-14 Thread Matthias Langer
Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. Thanks in advance, Matthias [1]:

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/14/2009 03:59 AM, David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024 mode. Today I restarted X (because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
As Jocob says, I don't use genkernel Do you think I should reopen the bug? Thanks, Massimiliano On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:23PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024 mode. Today I

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 02:25:45 Adam Carter wrote: I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless after I booted 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that partition. Is there a way to convert the partition to work or do I really have to change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all. I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd, the file (obviously) get overwritten. I tried to search, but didn't find anything... Is there an emerge flag

[gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread walt
On 09/14/2009 01:59 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: As Jocob says, I don't use genkernel Do you think I should reopen the bug? The bug is still open, so perhaps voting for it would help (I did).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... Several obvious questions arise: _Why_ did X select a different resolution today? _How_ can I get to the higher resolution? _What_ can I do to prevent a recurrence of this problem? Don't know about

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 13:36:39 David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd, the file (obviously) get overwritten. I tried to search, but didn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:59:28 David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/14/2009 02:22 PM, David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... Several obvious questions arise: _Why_ did X select a different resolution today? _How_ can I get to the higher resolution? _What_ can I do to prevent a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:34:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: 090912 Lars Gust?bel wrote: I've been using fvwm2 for years now ... I have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop ... Can you have multiple desktops with Fvwm ? I couldn't find anything about it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hey, Since IceWM seems to be gone into hibernation phase I am looking for a replacement which should -- be widely configurable via ascii files -- be as far as possible controllable by keyboard -- be also useable with the mouse -- no eye-candy -- not ugly -- NOT tiling --

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 September 2009 13:59:45 William Kenworthy wrote: I ran into the same problem though with different versions of the software a couple of days ago. The only fix that worked was to -hal xorg-server, and recreate the xorg.conf file that I had previously deleted, making sure that EDID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Thank you! That worked!!! Massimiliano On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 I've changed the file accordingly,

Re: [gentoo-user] lzma-utils vs xz-utils

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Planning to 'emerge -pv eix' for the latest 0.17.1 in testing, I was surprised by Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-arch/xz-utils-4.999.9_beta 1,014 kB [uninstall] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In 200909141125.49642.alan.mckin...@gmail.com alan.mckin...@gmail.com (Alan McKinnon) writes: On Monday 14 September 2009 02:25:45 Adam Carter wrote: I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless after I booted 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on

[gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the wallpapers packaged with the install. Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the wallpapers packaged with the install. Did you upgrade to jpeg-7 recently? Other obvious

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down And the desktop seems to take a good bit longer to initially load.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Other obvious changes are that ctrl-alt-bkspc no longer shuts X down And the desktop

[gentoo-user] UXterm and terminus?

2009-09-14 Thread Massimo Gengarelli
Hi everyone. I'm trying to use uxterm right now, after a while spent on urxvt (which doesn't behave good on tiled WMs) and I'm quite happy with it, after a little modding. Anyway, if I use the terminus font (using the xft library), I can't see some symbols, like the Euro one (€ ? can you see it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Sep 2009, at 16:27, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... AMD64, reiser, sata (3ware)... strange I have had some weirdness recently with a 3ware 9500-S 2.6.30- gentoo-r4, but since you still haven't told us ANYTHING about the problem you're encountering, it's a little difficult to help.

RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
I have no issues whatsoever on this amd64 notebook with 2.6.30 and reiser. It's now on 2.6.31 and still working fine. My ancient x86 file server is still on 2.6.29, mostly as I'd read the same report you did. The problematic combination reported then was x86, reiser, 2.6.30, IDE chipset

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange desktop happening following update world

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: On reboot following recent update world I find the xfce4 manager is not able to display the former desktop wallpaper or even the wallpapers packaged with the install.

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf it was ignored and xrandr worked and was persistant.

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On my old computer it detected the highest resolution as 1280x1024, but could actually do 1600x1200 with no problems. I had to create a custom Modeline and put it in xorg.conf - this was before the HAL revolution. I've got no idea if modelines still

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:36 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other options, but IIRC when I set my old laptop to 1600x1200 in

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Adam Carter
randr output is below. Video resolution _is_ at the maximum it thinks is legitimate. In that case you may have to put a custom modeline into xorg.conf. Some of the modeline generators on the net are broken, so if you find one doesn't work try another.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:03:17 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Also check out xrandr, run it without parameters to see what modes it knows about, then use -s 1280x1024 to set that mode. I have no idea how this interacts with the other

[gentoo-user] SOLVED [ was: Screen resolution problem ]

2009-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:17:09 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/14/2009 02:22 PM, David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... Several obvious questions arise: _Why_ did X select a different resolution today? _How_ can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On my old computer it detected the highest resolution as 1280x1024, but could actually do 1600x1200 with no problems. I had to create a custom Modeline and put it in xorg.conf - this was before the HAL