Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db dev-lang/php dependency problem...

2009-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 09:54:07 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:56:17PM +0200, Jarry wrote: # emerge --depclean ... * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the *

[gentoo-user] Re: debug and regular library

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:56:29PM +0200, Krzysztof Poc wrote: I would like to install the debugged version of glibc. Compiled with symbols and minimal optimization. I don't want it to be the default libc in my system. I want to link it only with some programs. I'm familiar

[gentoo-user] Re: vsftpd conf ...still..:)

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:44:17PM +0200, laurent wrote: xferlog_file=/home/var/log/vsftpd/vsftpd.log Looking at the content of this file would be a good start ! -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:23:32 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: But: there is no /etc/ssmtp directory, let alone a config file. That could explain a lot, but I need some help fixing it. emerge --oneshot --noconfmem ssmtp -- Neil Bothwick Do I BELIEVE in the Bible?! HELL man, I've SEEN one!!!

[gentoo-user] mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created: /var/lib/init.d/snapshot /var/lib/init.d/options /var/lib/init.d/daemons /var/lib/init.d/started

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: v2-v3 config issue...

2009-11-04 Thread Fekete Robert
Hi Jarry, I work for BalaBit, the developer of syslog-ng, and am the maintainer of the syslog-ng docs. You are right, the program-override option is missing from the documentation of the file source, but it should work anyway. We did a quick test and it was working on our Ubuntu machines (tested

[gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, I have no xorg.conf, so hal does all the conf stuff for me. My problem (I think) is that I have both modules in my sytem: [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers $ grep nv /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS=vesa nvidia and seems that Xorg tries some drivers and finally loads nv driver: from less

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean does not remove due to link level dependencies

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Again, this is just something I am curious about, not a real problem. emerge -p --depclean gives me this output: [...] Calculating dependencies... done! Checking for lib consumers... Assigning files to packages... * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean does not remove due to link level dependencies

2009-11-04 Thread KH
Alex Schuster schrieb: Hi there! [snip] Still, this is ugly I think. Another part of the emerge --depclean output is: * media-sound/esound-0.2.41 pulled in by: * app-office/gnucash-2.2.9-r1 needs libesd.so.0 * gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.26.0-r1 needs libesd.so.0 *

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/db dev-lang/php dependency problem...

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: # emerge --depclean [...] * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the * packages that pulled them in. * * sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4 pulled in by: * dev-lang/php-5.2.10

[gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread waltdnes
What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure? The stuff I've found on Google and the Gentoo wiki references obsolete versions of Gentoo, and I don't know if it would work. I've got an Acer Aspire One, with no CD/DVD. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: Hi all, I have no xorg.conf, so hal does all the conf stuff for me. My problem (I think) is that I have both modules in my sytem: [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers $ grep nv /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS=vesa nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread KH
waltd...@waltdnes.org schrieb: What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure? The stuff I've found on Google and the Gentoo wiki references obsolete versions of Gentoo, and I don't know if it would work. I've got an Acer Aspire One, with no CD/DVD. Hi, This might be what you have been

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:52:45 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: Am Iworng or my xorg uses nv driver? if so, how may I force hal to use nvidia driver? what about dri module? why is it failling to load it?

[gentoo-user] Re: mounting /var prior to invocation of /sbin/rc [CANCELLED]

2009-11-04 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
I take it back. those files were leftover on the root partition. Amit Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. I've a setup where /var resides on a separate partition than root. After boot, I see that /var is created on root and some files are written to it. E.G, the following folders are created:

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:49:12 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure? Put System Rescue CD on a USB stick, boot from it, follow the handbook. -- Neil Bothwick RISC: Reduced Into Silly Code signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
091104 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure ? The stuff I've found on Google and the Gentoo wiki references obsolete versions of Gentoo and I don't know if it would work. I've got an Acer Aspire One with no CD/DVD. I'm in the midst of doing it on an

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:57:15AM +0100, KH wrote This might be what you have been looking for. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml That was one of the items I saw. A couple of questions... 1) Will the old 2007.0 ISO still work? 2) Is it *REALLY* necessary to download a 700 meg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: On 11/03/2009 12:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: walt schrieb: Perhaps you have something left over from your gnome session that doesn't stop when it should. I see that quite often. hmm, any idea how to find that? I use ps ax to see the running processes. Sometimes I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean does not remove due to link level dependencies

2009-11-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/11/4 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: Hi there! Again, this is just something I am curious about, not a real problem. emerge -p --depclean gives me this output: [...] Calculating dependencies... done! Checking for lib consumers... Assigning files to packages...  * In order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-04 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: walt schrieb: On 11/03/2009 12:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: walt schrieb: Perhaps you have something left over from your gnome session that doesn't stop when it should. I see that quite often. hmm, any idea how to find that?

[gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Erik
With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for Night of the week for strip club attendance: It even seems to have a weekday selected by default! Has KDE been taken over by the sex industry? (Or was it Gentoo that

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

2009-11-04 Thread Crístian Viana
1) Will the old 2007.0 ISO still work? I'm not sure, but probably yes. but it's better if you download the latest ISO ;) 2) Is it *REALLY* necessary to download a 700 meg (*COMPRESSED*) full- blown system with pointy-clicky-touchie-feelie-oowee-GUI to do a commandline install that could

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +0100, Erik wrote: The last part of the manual section says Till sist finns en kombinationsruta som heter Första dag i veckan, som låter dig välja vilken dag som är den första i veckan i ditt land. (Which means: Finally there is a combobox called First day of

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 14:45:00 Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for Night of the week for strip club attendance: Hey, I don't have that! Not fair! What package is it in? I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Different desktop wallpapers in KDE4?

2009-11-04 Thread daid kahl
I think I saw a statement on this list that it's possible to set a different wallpaper on each desktop in kde-4.3.1, but now I can't find it, and I can't see how to do it either. Is it really possible to do this? You need to create an activity for each desktop and set the wallpaper within

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 + Peter Haworth wrote: [...] This is only one of the reasons (only one of them) why hal in X is as useless as it can get: if you use any driver that's not provided by the Xorg guys then you still need an xorg.conf. True, but it doesn't need much in it. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread james
Graham Murray graham at gmurray.org.uk writes: You have to copy the .config from the running (old) kernel to the new kernel directory before running make oldconfig. If you start with the default config, then you have to run make menuconfig (or config or xconfig) to customise it every time.

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 + Peter Haworth wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:52:45 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: Am Iworng or my xorg uses nv driver? if so, how may I force hal to use nvidia

[gentoo-user] Re: To James and James (was Re: executing commands on lots of servers at once)

2009-11-04 Thread James
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs at online.de writes: Yes, there are indeed two James on the list. Could you please both be so kind and use your full names when posting to the list, to avoid such confusion in the future? No, I've been using James on the list since, 2004. I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Dale
Arnau Bria wrote: or try xorg with no hal support. Thanks for your replies! I can tell you that using xorg without hal works. I gave up on hal a while back. If you want to know how to get rid of hal support, just let us know or search the archives. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 + Peter Haworth wrote: Section Device Identifier Device0 Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA Corporation EndSection tried with only that section, it hangs and had to reboot Did you try the

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes: I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX requires) is deprecated. From the help on it: Do you notice some kind of difference from switching?

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-04 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 06:10 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:34:06 -0600 Dale Dale wrote: I can tell you that using xorg without hal works. I gave up on hal a while back. If you want to know how to get rid of hal support, just let us know or search the archives. Well, I did a quick serach with [xorg without hal] or no hal

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Arnau Bria
tried with only that section, it hangs and had to reboot Did you try the being-mentioned-here-quite-often-these-days-of-X-trouble trick of Alt-SysRq-R, followed by Ctrl-Alt-F1? nop, did not remeber key combination, but I don't care if I have to reboot, not the issue in this topic. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/3/2009 11:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: hamiltonhamil...@pobox.com writes: Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings you're seeing. I think you can say

[gentoo-user] fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been fiddling with a new kernel, and have had several occasions to reboot lately. If I mounted /boot to cp the new kernel etc over, I have a problem on reboot for sure. Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). Which means nearly

[gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this question there. Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X. What I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread walt
On 11/04/2009 06:16 AM, james wrote: Graham Murray graham at gmurray.org.uk writes: You have to copy the .config from the running (old) kernel to the new kernel directory before running make oldconfig. If you start with the default config, then you have to run make menuconfig (or config or

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: The 'make' man page wouldn't know anything about the kernel's makefile. You want the README file that's included in the top of the kernel source folder. That file says, among other things: make oldconfig Default all questions based on the contents

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-04, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings you're seeing. I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 04:55 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Gah, the Flash plugin is very buggy with 3.6 (rendering corruption). I reverted to 3.5.4 and downgraded to Gtk+ 2.16.6 and gtkmm 2.16.0 instead. Any pointers at to what might be wrong are still welcome. Shot in

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: I have hal support in it, but also still keyboard and mouse sections in xorg.conf. I also have Option AutoAddDevices false Option AllowEmptyInput false in the ServerLayout section to make them still work. so I can easier switch

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this question there. Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. I've always used and

[gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for Night of the week for strip club attendance: I would report that to the KDE development list. It look like a translator was

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for x.org, but for other things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:16 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for Night of the week for strip club attendance:

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/4/2009 10:51 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this question there. Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. I believe that some packages in

Re: [gentoo-user] Netqmail and local mail

2009-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 Nov 2009, at 23:21, Momesso Andrea wrote: ... The server works fine and can send and recive mails. The problem is that I don't know anymore where to find my local mail, for example mail sent by cron jobs. I'd like to have it forwarded to one of my accounts (for example my gmail

[gentoo-user] Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Grant
I'm trying to configure my laptop's internal sound card and external USB sound card. I have /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 and restarting alsasound I get: WARNING: Module

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:25:49 -0500, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 11/4/2009 10:51 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this question there. Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but at some point hal

[gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 06:24 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:16 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 06:48 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to configure my laptop's internal sound card and external USB sound card. I have /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 and restarting

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious observance. It would appear your locale uses a different translation! I am torn as whether to find this funny

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is the time correct if you reboot and immediately enter BIOS? Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:06:28 +, Stroller wrote: I am torn as whether to find this funny or improper. Like a lot of humour, I see it as both. Only when I know what it's supposed to say I really like the joke that both are equally important. Why indeed give religious observance a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Grant
I'm trying to configure my laptop's internal sound card and external USB sound card.  I have /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 and restarting alsasound I get: WARNING:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:25:21 -0800, Grant wrote: But I get the warning about Module snd_hda_intel not found which is the built-in chip. That's because you don't have that module, it's built into the kernel. This also means the the options lines in alsa.conf will not do anything. -- Neil

[gentoo-user] VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Grant
How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Grant
But I get the warning about Module snd_hda_intel not found which is the built-in chip. That's because you don't have that module, it's built into the kernel. This also means the the options lines in alsa.conf will not do anything. OK, so I need to build them as modules, or I need to change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: v2-v3 config issue...

2009-11-04 Thread Jarry
Fekete Robert wrote: You are right, the program-override option is missing from the documentation of the file source, but it should work anyway. We did a quick test and it was working on our Ubuntu machines (tested with syslog-ng 3.02a), both on kernel messages and also on custom files

[gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Grant
How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output?  My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now.  Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA output on and off than plug/unplug +

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: The thing is, I cannot find the culprit. For example, examining the PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: Still the (IMHO) best way is to boot a LiveCD, run lspci -vv (two times v) and write down which hardware is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 04 November 2009 02:46:54 schrieb Harry Putnam: But am I missing some critical driver? Harddisk (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y), maybe? That's one reason for unknown block device. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 07:47 PM, Grant wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 04 November 2009 05:10:52 schrieb Harry Putnam: I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to be incorporated so no I didn't No, that's only half of the truth. You need to copy .config from your old kernel first. I'd compile the config into the kernel,

[gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of my packages that need HAL: I didn't tell quite all of it. Hal

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Erik
Stroller skrev: On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious observance. It would appear your locale uses a different translation! I am torn as whether

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Erik wrote: Stroller skrev: On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious observance. It would appear your locale uses

Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

2009-11-04 Thread James
I guess what I was looking for was something like the Altiris PXE boot server, where you can set up a repository of different PXE boot options, etc. -j On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:05 -0800, Keith Dart wrote: I use dnsmasq,

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread walt
On 11/04/2009 09:30 AM, Grant wrote: But I get the warning about Module snd_hda_intel not found which is the built-in chip. That's because you don't have that module, it's built into the kernel. This also means the the options lines in alsa.conf will not do anything. OK, so I need to build

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: If it still won't work, you can also post your kernel config and the output of lspci -vv here and somebody will find out what's wrong/missing. Good input thanks. I did get it working. It was an IDE selection I missed. From the lspci -vv

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is the time correct if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: v2-v3 config issue...

2009-11-04 Thread frobert
Hi Jarry, thanks for the detailed info. I have discussed the issue with my colleagues, and it seems that the error is on our side: there was a performance-related change in the program-override option in 3.0.4, which broke the function. So you can either downgrade to an older version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2009 07:47 PM, Grant wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output?  My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now.  Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db dev-lang/php dependency problem...

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:47:41AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: I just posted a message (emerge --depclean does not remove due to link level dependencies) due to similar issues. My guess is that php links to some sys-libs/db library, even if db is not a dependency to php. To be correct, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: But I get the warning about Module snd_hda_intel not found which is the built-in chip. That's because you don't have that module, it's built into the kernel. This also means the the options lines in alsa.conf will not do

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 11/3/2009 11:16 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: When I attempt to use either of those utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. Instead, it

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread walt
On 11/04/2009 10:43 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot). The first thing I would want to check is the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Dienstag 03 November 2009 23:29:59 schrieb Harry Putnam: The thing is, I cannot find the culprit.  For example, examining the PIIX items in the working kernel and inserting here: Still the (IMHO) best way is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Valmor de Almeida
James Ausmus wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
trims a bit And on a reasonably new version of pciutils... lcpci -k lists devices and drivers, less extras to dig through. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy That should, of course, be lspci, not lcpci... -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: If my setup using no hal, and xorg.conf is going to become outdated and stop working anytime soon? I seriously doubt the xorg.conf is going away in the foreseeable future so I wouldn't worry. I haven't heard any of the developers on xorg mail list talking about this either

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dale schrieb: Arnau Bria wrote: or try xorg with no hal support. Thanks for your replies! I can tell you that using xorg without hal works. I gave up on hal a while back. If you want to know how to get rid of hal support, just let us know or search the archives. I would also like

[gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror 4.3.1 crashed X

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:02:41PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone else seen anything like this ? Using Konqueror 4.3.1 , I entered Ctl-Shift-Rightarrow to move a tab X vanished ! I don't remember that happening with any app in recent years. First of all, is it reproducible ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to be incorporated so no I didn't The 'oldconfig' option needs your old .config for input (that where old comes from :-) I usually manually go through the 'make menuconfig' as well after doing this to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: v2-v3 config issue...

2009-11-04 Thread Jarry
frob...@balabit.hu wrote: thanks for the detailed info. I have discussed the issue with my colleagues, and it seems that the error is on our side: there was a performance-related change in the program-override option in 3.0.4, which broke the function. Hi Robert, thanks for reply. I will

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange sunbird segfault

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:35:04PM -0700, Jim Cunning wrote: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 25986 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with

[gentoo-user] Re: Java and glsa-check

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:33:44PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Yet 1.5.0.20 is supposed to be unaffected. Is this the slotting issue bug 106677 is talking about? Looks like, yes. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Eclipse 3.4-r2

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:33:09AM +, Hung Dang wrote: I installed Eclipse 3.4 on my system and I could be able to enable Classic Update under Window Preferences General Capabilities. Then I try to update Eclipse using Help Software Updates Find and Update dialog, however,

[gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-04 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty updated gentoo laptop. Thanks in advance. -- Valmor PS: never tried to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of my packages that need HAL: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stefan G. Weichinger squawked: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) It ain't that important although I would like to see

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-04 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty updated gentoo laptop. Thanks in advance. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 20:02:03 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: But I get the warning about Module snd_hda_intel not found which is the built-in chip. That's because you don't have that module, it's built into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes: I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX requires) is deprecated. From the help on it: Do you notice some kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
A guess would be it puts a reminder for a weekly occurrence, like going to the strip club! ;-) But of course, you are right, in the end :-) Zeerak On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:55:46 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2009 06:24 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] New KDE4 option: night of the week for strip club attendance WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:15:52 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, Erik wrote: Stroller skrev: On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of week, last working

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