Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul

[gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card

2010-03-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
Hi everybody, I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. No matter how many goats and virgins I have sacrificed to the gods of Google

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: This notebook is nazgul, not because I'm a LOTR fan (which I am) but because it ties in nicely with the BOFH image I've been cultivating for years Thanks for bringing back old memories, it's been almost two decades since I read BOFH. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 07:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk 4.4 is emerged with kde 4.3

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:02:56 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: how should i roll back those miss updated packages back to 4.3? or can someone tell me if kde 4.4 is pretty stable to use for desktop? I've found 4.4, even the betas, to be far more stable than 4.3. It's the first version that I consider

Re: [gentoo-user] how to add custom compilation options?

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:08:46 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: i want to emerge the crypto++ package with the -DCRYPTOPP_DISABLE_ASM option. i tried to add it into the CFLAGS variable, but it did not work. please tell me how to do this. This is C++ software, you need to add it to CXXFLAGS. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - if I could choose no-multilib now and change my mind using eselect later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the moment blow them away if I find I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Ah!

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky? http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally killed by Arthur Dent? Yes, all my hostnames are HHGTTG characters. Agrajag never crashes and has only died once... so far. Uh, makes me wonder if I am along your hosts, too? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 10:23, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: Many thanks for your help, Willie! About 13 items. Is this unlucky?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - if I could choose no-multilib now and change my mind using eselect later. Presumably  I can choose

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:34:34PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote I had this once on a smaller machine, but now I'd prefer it the other way around, there's plenty of space available. I have 15G for distfiles and pkgdir, so I don't worry about some 100MB for the portage tree. I managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:44:49 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Yes, all my hostnames are HHGTTG characters. Agrajag never crashes and has only died once... so far. Uh, makes me wonder if I am along your hosts, too? Wonko Surely you'd know if you were :) -- Neil Bothwick We've all

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change. Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:) Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from the notail option in reiserfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from the notail option in reiserfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Argh, sorry for the previous posts. I had some sort of Ctrl-lock, that is, the keyboard acted as if Ctrl was pressed all the time. Now I know that Ctrl+Enter is a shortcut to send an email. I accidentally closed some shells by pressing the D key. I was able to get rid off it by switching to a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to add custom compilation options?

2010-03-04 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: This is C++ software, you need to add it to CXXFLAGS. -- Neil Bothwick You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. yes, i figured it out. thanks. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-04 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM,  roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do:  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness echo 20 /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness can change

[gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag seem to be not active

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey di...@makovey.net: Hi everybody, I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. No matter how many goats

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:57:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The tool you want to answer this question is emerge -t There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. I notice qt-sql is in the list, does that have the mysql flag forced on? --

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
On 4 March 2010 15:57, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again.  This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too.  

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 05:37 PM, Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the

I want my old Myth theme back! [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?]

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded to mythtv-0.22_p23069. Went through the whole song-and-dance of repairing the database for the utf8 to latin1 thing, and now it's finally back up. Except for one tiny problem. My G.A.N.T. theme is gone. I can't even select it as a theme. Is there some way to get it back? I liked

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu writes: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: snip Unpacking source... Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Have you had a similar problem and `perl-cleaner' fixed it? Any perl has modules problems after updating perl itself, you should run perl-cleaner. Or don't wait for the problem and just run it after any major version upgrade of perl. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
On 4 March 2010 16:45, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 03/04/2010 05:37 PM, Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again.  This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too.  Rest assured

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 07:07 PM, Mick wrote: On 4 March 2010 15:57, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ? No. The USE flag is

Re: I want my old Myth theme back! [WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?]

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:08:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I upgraded to mythtv-0.22_p23069. Went through the whole song-and-dance of repairing the database for the utf8 to latin1 thing, and now it's finally back up. Except for one tiny problem. My G.A.N.T. theme is gone. I can't even

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:07:22 +, Mick wrote: The tool you want to answer this question is emerge -t Right, but I started this mammoth emerge before I spent enough time looking at its contents I'm afraid. The use emerge --depclean -pv dev-db/mysql There will be a reason why mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
Since you already merged it in: # equery depends mysql then unmerge or correct USE flags for dependent apps. To have portage error out instead of merging mysql in the future: # echo dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.mask/I_said_no_mysql HTH, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. object version 1.609 does not match $::VERSION %_ at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:07:22 Mick wrote: There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ? Your post seems to indicate a lack of understanding of how these things work.

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:07:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Again, you appear to fail to understand. metalog supports a variety of database backends. Not all apps are like this, some are hard-coded. If you want to use an app like this, you have no choice but to install mysql. If you don't

[gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
A few years ago I was working on a programming project. I installed a cvsd server on our server box and checked in/checked out the project whenever I felt like working on it (it would have gotten majorly screwed up if the only copy of the project lived on my personal workstation - hence using

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system. netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system. netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system. netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system. I assume these

OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)]

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system. netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system. netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system. netstat:

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org writes: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:52:30 -0600 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 223. object version 1.609 does not match $::VERSION %_ at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:56:34AM +, Stroller wrote I could imagine that web-browsers might need 32-bit support in order to play Flash If you're brave, there's an alpha (as in pre-beta, not the CPU) 64-bit plugin for linux at... http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
On 4 March 2010 20:07, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:07:22 Mick wrote: There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ? Your post

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card

2010-03-04 Thread Dmitry Makovey
On 03/04/2010 08:37 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey di...@makovey.net: Hi everybody, I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered - even though video is working flawlessly,