Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-04 Thread Ates
Ki rill Lipatov wrote: The disabling of the in-game chat unfortunately doesn't help my problem 2009/12/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com mailto:arttu...@gmail.com On 12/3/09, Kirill Lipatov kirilllipa...@gmail.com mailto:kirilllipa...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason Steam fails to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Yoav Luft
My problem is exactly as others described: Usually, mpd is running and playing my favorite tunes. Then, all of the sudden, I decide that I would like watch some youtube movie, or something, so I stop mpd, watch the movie, but when I want to play my music again mpd complains that the audio device

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hey! So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use it? You cannot simply leave the umlaut out since it is considered as a separate letter for itself. You cannot choose whether to write an ö or an o.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread felix
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:17:30AM +0100, Patrick Holthaus wrote: You cannot simply leave the umlaut out since it is considered as a separate letter for itself. You cannot choose whether to write an ? or an o. Like Renat said, there are words that completely change their meaning when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Nevynxxx
walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. As others have pointed out, that depends on your definition of need. Most people don't worry about realtime mixing, but they still want multiple sounds to be able to happen at once

[gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Xi Shen
hi, when i boot my system, at the step Wiping /tmp, it pops up an error message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it used the wrong find command. i build the kernel my self, and have a initramfs file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-04 Thread Graham Murray
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com writes: If you want your processes to use more than 3GB of memory, then yes, boot up with a 64bit OS (again correct me if i'm wrong) ;) Or configure your 32bit kernel with HIGHMEM = 64GB

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes, we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accentco creates a completly new word. Probably one that is already there. Munster is a

[gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i change the address

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: when i boot my system, at the step Wiping /tmp, it pops up an error message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it used the wrong find command. Did you emerge busybox with the

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and Gentoo (with ext4). Did you use any non-default settings when formatting? As Intel-SSDs are back on stock here I have ordered one and I am starting to plan how to reorganize things. I read

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:11:21PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i boot my system, at the step Wiping /tmp, it pops up an error message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it used the

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Xi Shen
well, my find is still at /usr/bin/find, and after the system has boot, i can use find command normally. i think my problem is caused by the init script in the initramfs file. in that script, i install busybox with busybox --install -s. but i do not know how to uninstall it, or how to fix my

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Roger Mason
Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com writes: i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 remote machine is compiling, while the

[gentoo-user] Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 stable version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed since August requires the testing version of Perl (5.10.1) !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error messages. The following is from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file after

[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 stable version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed since August requires the testing version of Perl (5.10.1) !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 20:31:05 Grant Edwards wrote: After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 stable version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed since August requires the testing version of Perl (5.10.1) !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 17:25:21 Alex Schuster wrote: Xi Shen writes: when i boot my system, at the step Wiping /tmp, it pops up an error message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it used the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 December 2009 15:42:56 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes, we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accentco creates a

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-04 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and Gentoo (with ext4). Did you use any non-default settings when formatting? No. As Intel-SSDs are back on stock here I have

Re: [gentoo-user] only 1 remote machine is receiving distcc jobs

2009-12-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Dec 2009, at 13:51, Xi Shen wrote: i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2 remote machine is compiling, while the other

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread walt
On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to function properly. Last time I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread App Des
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:36 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This

[gentoo-user] Re: X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread walt
On 12/04/2009 11:39 AM, dhk wrote: ... I also ran set opengl set ati but that didn't make a difference, now I don't know how to reverse that cammand. I think you mean eselect opengl set ati, don't you? What does eselect opengl list say?

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error messages. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
walt wrote: On 12/04/2009 11:39 AM, dhk wrote: ... I also ran set opengl set ati but that didn't make a difference, now I don't know how to reverse that cammand. I think you mean eselect opengl set ati, don't you? What does eselect opengl list say? Yes I meant eselect. eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
 2  pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. I kindly disagree. ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild. It's considered stable upstream. This was an upstream bug, not a Gentoo bug. And,

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread David
dhk wrote: I hate to ask . . . how do I recompile all drivers? This should do it; emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av also make sure hald is running; rc-update show do you have support for evdev included in the kernel?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck.  If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else.  I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was trying

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
David wrote: dhk wrote: I hate to ask . . . how do I recompile all drivers? This should do it; emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av also make sure hald is running; rc-update show do you have support for evdev included in the kernel?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:50:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Three consecutive e's looks weird Are you calling my laptop weird? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick THE BORG: Calm, Cool and Collective... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread walt
On 12/04/2009 12:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Things seemed to be OK after manually updating perl-IO-Compress and removing perl-IO-Compress-Zlib: emerge perl-IO-Compress emerge -C perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Maybe someday I'll understand Portage, but I doubt it -- it's been 5 years. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread David
dhk wrote: I started hald and rebuilt the drivers: startx still fails. Please paste the log; emerge wgetpaste cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |wgetpaste - -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo PR | Trustees

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 12/04/2009 12:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Things seemed to be OK after manually updating perl-IO-Compress and removing perl-IO-Compress-Zlib: emerge perl-IO-Compress emerge -C perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Maybe someday I'll understand Portage, but I doubt it -- it's been 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Dale
daid kahl wrote: I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck. If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else. I couldn't hear Kopete if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... and it hasn't required any manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
091205 daid kahl wrote:  2  pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. I kindly disagree. Thanks for the kindly: I thought I'd walked into a high-school locker room. ~[arch] is testing for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: The defective version of 'patch' had got into 'testing', where the only remaining problems are supposed to be in the ebuild; in fact in this case, there was still a serious problem upstream that version of 'patch' has been re-masked (I believe). Anyway, don't do testing on