64 bits (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit)

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: J. Roeleveld writes: Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will have to do the migration to 64bit then. Wonko, If

[gentoo-user] problem while emerging qt-phonon

2010-06-16 Thread xuw zhan
Hey.I got a problem here. When I tried to emerge qt-phonon,I got some errors.It said that qt-phonon block some other package,just like media-sound/phonon,kdelibs,and so on. It seems that I cannot install qt-phonon in kde desktop. Does this mean that I cannot use phonon module in the qt-creator

Re: [gentoo-user] problem while emerging qt-phonon

2010-06-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 14:38:10 xuw zhan wrote: Hey.I got a problem here. When I tried to emerge qt-phonon,I got some errors.It said that qt-phonon block some other package,just like media-sound/phonon,kdelibs,and so on. It seems that I cannot install qt-phonon in kde desktop. Does this

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

2010-06-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:43 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] wammu error

2010-06-16 Thread James
hello, I'm trying to get gammu to connect to a motorola razor phone under gentoo (kde4). lsusb shows: Bus 002 Device 008: ID 22b8:2b44 Motorola PCS I get this message when using the guided part of the wizard for initial setup: Error opening device You don't have permissions for

[gentoo-user] Kontact folder and memory issues

2010-06-16 Thread Jim Cunning
I have recently started to experience two annoying issues with kontact/kmail. Sometime after an emerge world update in the last couple of weeks, kontact has started consuming huge amounts of RAM and swap. Currently ps for kontact shows: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START

[gentoo-user] Unable to emerge kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Revell
Hi everyone, I've got a bit of a problem with a new Gentoo install that I'm currently trying to install KDE on. The installation of kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5 is failing, apparently due to a missing header file in its sources.The full build log is as follows: * CPV:

[gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Jake Moe
I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4

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

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Oh my. Trying again. I already started a reply months ago, but kontact crashed, and I lost it. I started again, ranted about KDE4, tried to open systemsettings in order to check Mick's suggestions, but I misclicked and hit kontact, which is directly below in my favorite list. Of course,

[gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Rod
Hi, Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if pop was blocked.

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to emerge kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5

2010-06-16 Thread walt
On 06/16/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Revell wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a bit of a problem with a new Gentoo install that I'm currently trying to install KDE on. The installation of kdebase/kfilereplace-4.3.5 is failing, apparently due to a missing header file in its sources. snip [ 11%]

[gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. However, it seems to be quite repeatable. I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: windows 7 and gentoo linux. The machine seems to have two hardware states determined by whether windows has been run since power

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread walt
On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Rod writes: Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,

[gentoo-user] Re: (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/17/2010 03:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. However, it seems to be quite repeatable. I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: windows 7 and gentoo linux. The machine seems to have two hardware states

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs,

Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-16 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. However, it seems to be quite repeatable. I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: windows 7 and gentoo linux. The machine seems to have two hardware states determined by whether windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Jake Moe
On 17/06/10 11:02, Alex Schuster wrote: walt writes: On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root

Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:04:23 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. However, it seems to be quite repeatable. I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: windows 7 and gentoo linux. The

[gentoo-user] ecryptfs-mount: superflous asking?

2010-06-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, When remounting a directory (I use manually started scripts for that) for using with ecryptfs I am always asked, whether to use a passphrase or openssl. Is there a way to tell mount to use a passphrase and to shut up for the reset - after mounting the directory I am always told, what options

Re: [gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge

2010-06-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:40:26AM +0100, Mick wrote Are you sure that your syslog-ng is reading the correct /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf ? The hardrive on my regular machine started making ominous clicking sounds, so I've been setting up my backup machine the past couple of days. The