Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail

2009-12-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 December 2009 02:36:08 Stroller wrote: On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the bottom of Composer shows Spellcheck: on. Manually selecting Tools/Spelling shows the message Spell check complete. But

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

2009-12-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.12.2009 08:14, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 19 December 2009 12:19:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I expected more WOW in terms of overall speed ... SSDs are not a magic bullet, it's unlikely they will give you a killer performance improvement that makes you go WOW!!! sad to hear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: went from x86 to ~x86: no more X11

2009-12-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.12.2009 22:18, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 12.12.2009 21:56, schrieb Joshua Murphy: Anytime, and glad to hear that you're back up and working happily again! :) old phenomenon: post solved and it crashes again ... Just for reference: emerged slim instead of gdm now ... works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub boots to command prompt

2009-12-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 December 2009 18:32:22 Daniel D Jones wrote: Your next paragraph indicates that (hd0,0) is not in fact root, but (what will eventually be) /boot. Your root is likely to be (hd0,2) Eh? Your grub root should be where grub is installed, shouldn't it? That's /dev/sda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo 64bit from 32bit running enviroment

2009-12-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 December 2009 16:33:26 Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote: Dear friends, I have a gentoo system running 32bit .. and I have a 30GB partition available on which I would like to install a 64bit Gentoo to test for 64bit extensions processor supports . someone could help me and

Re: [gentoo-user] xconsole characters

2009-12-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:00:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover pk squawked: Does anyone know if there's a way to configure xconsole to not display control characters (at least that's what I think it is)? Currently xconsole displays this when XDM starts: [32;01m*[0m Setting clock via the NTP client

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail from rkhunter

2009-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, What's the minimum configuration required on a remote system to get rkhunter to email my GMail account if the rkhunter cron job finds something suspicious? Do I have to emerge and configure an email server of some type or can rkhunter just send email on its

[gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
Hi, Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I don't upgrade since a long time. Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list and a lot of weird instructions about hal, evdev etc. Before

[gentoo-user] Clean shutdown of laptop possible after migration to KDE4?

2009-12-25 Thread Erik
After migrating to KDE4 it seems like the laptop just dies when the battery becomes empty. In KDE3 I could set klaptopdaemon to warn when the estimated remaining battery time is 15 minutes and begin a clean shutdown when it is 10 minutes. It worked very well. Is it somehow possible to get a clean

Re: [gentoo-user] xconsole characters

2009-12-25 Thread pk
Willie Wong wrote: Those are ANSI escape codes. My google-fu is not up to telling me how to set xconsole to ignore them, but it seems possible that xconsole just cannot handle ANSI codes? Yes, that's what I was afraid of... However, it seems many people uses xconsole a bit differently by

[gentoo-user] what does vboxwebsrv use flag mean?

2009-12-25 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i want to emerge vbox, but i cannot fine reference about the vboxwebsrv use flag. can someone help me? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] Installation (or not) of Perl Getopt::Long

2009-12-25 Thread Stroller
Hey, Gentoo, I'm just attempting to learn a little Perl and write a little Perl program. I have been experimenting with the Getopt::Long module, which seems to be working fine, but I'm considering Getopt::Tabular instead. So I thought I'd search portage for Getopt, to see if that is readily

[gentoo-user] Re: Installation (or not) of Perl Getopt::Long

2009-12-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Dec 2009, at 16:21, Stroller wrote: ... Yet none of them, not even the Get::Long package that I've been experimenting with, are installed on my system: $ eix -c -C perl Getopt -I No matches found. $ Can anyone explain, please, why this appears not to be installed? Yet how

[gentoo-user] pxe + initramfs

2009-12-25 Thread James
All, I have been experimenting heavily with netboot (PXE booting). When I go to boot the Ubuntu LiveCD via the network I have to set up an NFS share and export it with the content of the LiveCD so that the kernel can boot from it. However, when booting the Gentoo LiveCD from the network,

[gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message: console [tty0] enabled /dev names a multitude of tty devices, i.e. /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1, ... How

[gentoo-user] alsa playback problems in audacious

2009-12-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I recently noticed that I suddenly have problems with mp3 playback in audacious2. msoul...@anton:~$ alsa-gapless: snd_device_name_hint failed: Invalid argument. madplug: lost synchronization. ALSA lib pcm.c:7234:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occured ALSA lib pcm.c:7234:(snd_pcm_recover)

Re: [gentoo-user] what does vboxwebsrv use flag mean?

2009-12-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 December 2009 18:19:01 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i want to emerge vbox, but i cannot fine reference about the vboxwebsrv use flag. can someone help me? $ euse -i vboxwebsrv global use flags (searching: vboxwebsrv) no

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean shutdown of laptop possible after migration to KDE4?

2009-12-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 December 2009 16:23:23 Erik wrote: After migrating to KDE4 it seems like the laptop just dies when the battery becomes empty. In KDE3 I could set klaptopdaemon to warn when the estimated remaining battery time is 15 minutes and begin a clean shutdown when it is 10 minutes. It

[gentoo-user] Re: what does vboxwebsrv use flag mean?

2009-12-25 Thread walt
On 12/25/2009 08:19 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i want to emerge vbox, but i cannot fine reference about the vboxwebsrv use flag. can someone help me? You don't need that unless you plan to be a vbox developer, according to the vbox forums. It's for building vbox interfaces other than qt.

Re: [gentoo-user] what does vboxwebsrv use flag mean?

2009-12-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Dec 2009, at 16:19, Xi Shen wrote: i want to emerge vbox, but i cannot fine reference about the vboxwebsrv use flag. can someone help me? This may be _some_ help: $ euses vboxwebsrv app-emulation/virtualbox-bin:vboxwebsrv - Install

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: Hi, Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I don't upgrade since a long time. Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list and a lot of weird instructions about

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message: console [tty0] enabled /dev names a multitude of tty devices, i.e. /dev/tty0,

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: Ok, I updated, and (miracolously enough) xorg 1.6 + hal/evdev mostly works! Only thing I have to put back in shape is the keyboard mapping. I have seen how to force hal policy to use the IT mapping, but I lost most customizations I needed: - key F11 mimicking the middle mouse

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: Further update: I am trying with xmodmap, but it seems it works in some cases and others not (notably GTK applications ignore it, while KDE apps use it). I've put xmodmap lines in my .xsession, kdm config, and I have identical xmodmap both in my home and in /etc/X11, to no

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:46 -0600 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message: console

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean shutdown of laptop possible after migration to KDE4?

2009-12-25 Thread Erik
Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 25 December 2009 16:23:23 Erik wrote: After migrating to KDE4 it seems like the laptop just dies when the battery becomes empty. In KDE3 I could set klaptopdaemon to warn when the estimated remaining battery time is 15 minutes and begin a clean shutdown when it

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:46 -0600 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: My mobo has two serial ports. As reported by hwinfo they are: Serial Port 0: 0x3f8 Serial Port 1: 0x2f8 After booting the machine, dmesg indicates that tty0 is the console with message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-25 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:22:05 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The guide I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-25 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Walker wrote: Dale wrote: Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my /home directory. I use a simple rsync cron job to backup entire servers every

Re: [gentoo-user] what does vboxwebsrv use flag mean?

2009-12-25 Thread Xi Shen
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 25 Dec 2009, at 16:19, Xi Shen wrote: i want to emerge vbox, but i cannot fine reference about the vboxwebsrv use flag. can someone help me? This may be _some_ help: $ euses vboxwebsrv

Re: [gentoo-user] serial port identification question

2009-12-25 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:56:00 -0600 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... Are you sure you enabled this in the kernel? It is under Device Drivers Character devices Serial Drivers then enable these: * 8250/16550 and compatible serial support (4) Maximum number of 8250/16550 serial ports (4) Number

[gentoo-user] chromium failed to start up

2009-12-25 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3, and have recently updated. last time i emerged chromium and it works fine. but after updated the world, my chromium cannot start up. it reports segment fault. any idea why this happen? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/