Re: [gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 24 Jun 2010, at 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: ... The MSI motherboard has PS/2 ports (YES!!!) so I don't have to tearfully throw away my genuine IBM PS/2 "clickety-clack" keyboard. Your motherboard doesn't need native PS2 ports: http://www.ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA4036.htm Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread kashani
On 6/23/2010 1:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 00:13, schrieb Mark Knecht: > >>> I don't know if the builtin graphics will allow gaming on the same >>> level, I should go for some benchmark results. But this is >>> definitely not important ... just a nice to have feat

[gentoo-user] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-23 Thread Walter Dnes
C_MAKE_TARGET} || die "emake failed with ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET}"; * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2'. * The complete build log is located

[gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output

2010-06-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Laptop: dell E6510 Gentoo: ~amd64 Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M I am unable to drive the VGA output. Symptoms include * Executing "xrandr" does not mention LVDS or VGA (and using --output VGA gives a warning that VGA doesn't exist) * Pushing Fn-F8 produces a "p" (the keycap of f8 shows in bl

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.06.2010 00:13, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> I don't know if the builtin graphics will allow gaming on the same >> level, I should go for some benchmark results. But this is >> definitely not important ... just a nice to have feature maybe. > > Depending on the MB you choose - I'm using an Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 23.06.2010 03:43, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the >> built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor >> itself, not very impressed with the stock coolin

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable > > ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. > > > > > > Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getti

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 00:27, schrieb Bill Longman: > - core i7 @ 1.6GHz gives me eight threads. The RAM is really fast, too, > so the overall system is very responsive. Great power savings stuff. quite a plus with the box running for >10 hrs a day at least ... > - Haven't tried kvm but would probably wo

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 04:27, schrieb kashani: > I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed > wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was > the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd > suggest at least an extra drive if not more if

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.06.2010 03:43, schrieb Mark Knecht: > I'm writing you from an Intel Core i5-661 Clarksdale machine using the > built in graphics. I've been fairly impressed with the processor > itself, not very impressed with the stock cooling they supplied, and > in general find the graphics at least accept

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with broadcom wireless

2010-06-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:23:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:24:00 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I have build b43 as both a kernel module and as a built-in component. >> But neither eth1 nor wlan0 exist for either kernel configuration (eth0 >> is the hardwired ethernet) >

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On 23 June 2010 21:06, Vincent Launchbury wrote: > On 06/23/10 08:22, Mick wrote: >> PS.  I just looked at earlier (stable) versions of these files here: >> >> http://drupal.org/project/skinr >> [...] >> and they do not have the binary characters at the end - so this could >> well be a problem wit

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:23:53 Alex Schuster wrote: > But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate': > ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or > address (6) > > This file is existing: > crw--- 1 root root 191, 20 22. Jun 23:35 /dev/cap

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-23, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2010-06-23, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Let's say I have DVD playing software that can only play unencrypted >>> DVDs (either as ISO images or as mounted trees), and I want to use it >>> to play an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-06-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Let's say I have DVD playing software that can only play unencrypted >> DVDs (either as ISO images or as mounted trees), and I want to use it >> to play an encrypted DVD. >> >> Is there any sort of FU

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > Let's say I have DVD playing software that can only play unencrypted > DVDs (either as ISO images or as mounted trees), and I want to use it > to play an encrypted DVD. > > Is there any sort of FUSE+libdvdread+libdvddecss utility that can be > pointed at an e

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:14:00 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Is there any sort of FUSE+libdvdread+libdvddecss utility that can be >> pointed at an encrypted DVD and then present to user-space apps >> an unencrypted-filesystem-tree-view of that DVD? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, Bill Longman wrote: >I'm sure I can easily start a raging, apocalyptic forest fire by mentioning "man" and "info" > in the same sentence there is no way to reply to this without using lots of highly forbidden words. Also death threats. So I will try to stay calm and dr

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:14:00 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any sort of FUSE+libdvdread+libdvddecss utility that can be > pointed at an encrypted DVD and then present to user-space apps > an unencrypted-filesystem-tree-view of that DVD? media-video/vobcopy will copy the DVD files to

[gentoo-user] DVD "FUSE decrypter" to allow non-DeCSS players to work with encrypted DVDs?

2010-06-23 Thread Grant Edwards
Let's say I have DVD playing software that can only play unencrypted DVDs (either as ISO images or as mounted trees), and I want to use it to play an encrypted DVD. Is there any sort of FUSE+libdvdread+libdvddecss utility that can be pointed at an encrypted DVD and then present to user-space apps

[gentoo-user] Problems relating to /usr/lib/libmpfr, is this fix safe

2010-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
The following comments turned up in my elogs recently: ---- ---=--- - --- >>> Messages generated for package dev-libs/mpfr-3.0.0 by process 12988 on 20100622-081454 CDT:- WARN: postinst Old versions of installed libraries were detected on yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed to emerge xulrunner-1.9.2.4

2010-06-23 Thread walt
On 06/22/2010 10:01 PM, Chen Huan wrote: When I emerge xulrunner-1.9.2.4 and mozilla-firefox-3.6.4,xulrunner cannot be emerged, here is the error message: ./../../dist/bin/js: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3' not found (required by ./../../dist/bin/js) ./../../dist/bin/js: /usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 09:37 PM, kashani wrote: > For the record only Sun servers have ever made me utter, "Let me get > this straight. I have to update the firware on the POWER SUPPLY too?!?" > E6500s circa '99. :-) And the "hotswap" E250 power supply. You know, the one that you have to tell the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 06/23/10 08:22, Mick wrote: > PS. I just looked at earlier (stable) versions of these files here: > > http://drupal.org/project/skinr > [...] > and they do not have the binary characters at the end - so this could > well be a problem with the development versions. Perhaps it was just a corru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 05:35 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: >>> Yes, it's built-in. I have attached a copy of my kernel config file in the >>> original post. >> >> I'll bet you don't have HUGETLBFS turned on in your kernel. It's >> required for ext4. >> > > I checked and both HUGETLBFS and HUGETLB_PAGE are enable

[gentoo-user] Recent updates brings hefty number of X related config files

2010-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
With recent updates (done thru cron) I have quite a hefty number of new X related config files. They unmodified and I think most are new. Especially the X related ones. I have `inlined' the list at the end of this post. It may contain a few normal changes as well I wasn't sure what might be rela

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jun 2010, at 13:22, Mick wrote: ... I've tried all sort of 'fixes' like trying to add escape characters, using closing tags, completely deleting the null symbols and what not, but loading the page in drupal still causes similar parsing errors although not always at the last line. The file

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread roundyz
Mick wrote: >> On 23 June 2010 13:48, wrote: >> > Stroller wrote: >> > >> >>> On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:18, Mick wrote: >> >>> >> >>> > I am looking at some php files which are causing parsing errors in >> >>> > Drupal, like: >> >> > @^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread roundyz
Stroller wrote: >> >> >> On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:18, Mick wrote: >> >> > I am looking at some php files which are causing parsing errors in >> > Drupal, like: >> > = >> > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in >> > /var/www/htdocs/sites/all/them

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:18, Mick wrote: I am looking at some php files which are causing parsing errors in Drupal, like: = Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /var/www/htdocs/sites/all/themes/fusion/fusion_core/template.php on line 178 Warnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread etienne . lorrain
> Can someone possibly explain exactly what's wrong with GRUB2? The main problem of GRUB2/GRUB4DOS is that it is entering the Linux kernel by the partially documented 32 bits entry point: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.98.tar.gz/grub- 1.98/loader/i386/linux.c?extr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

2010-06-23 Thread dhk
On 04/23/2010 06:13 AM, Damian wrote: > Damian writes: > >> Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. >> Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried >> to do what is mentioned here: >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:04:14 Walter Dnes wrote: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an > outfit in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, > so I can keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; > woho. And the integrated Intel graphics

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

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: > By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if I can work it out. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with broadcom wireless

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On 23 June 2010 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:24:00 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I have build b43 as both a kernel module and as a built-in component. >> But neither eth1 nor wlan0 exist for either kernel configuration (eth0 >> is the hardwired ethernet) > > Are you sur

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On 23 June 2010 09:03, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:46:07 Mick wrote: >> > I have nsplugins installed and manually performed the nspluginwrapper >> > >> >  config actions to enable the 32-bit flash plugin >> >> Do I need to do that?  Won't Konq work with 64bit flash? > > Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with broadcom wireless

2010-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:24:00 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have build b43 as both a kernel module and as a built-in component. > But neither eth1 nor wlan0 exist for either kernel configuration (eth0 > is the hardwired ethernet) Are you sure this is a B43xx devices, the lspci output doesn't sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 23.06.2010 08:53, schrieb Stroller: > > On 18 Jun 2010, at 17:17, Bill Longman wrote: >> ... >> And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved grub >> is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in >> some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-23 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable > ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. > > > Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers > happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

2010-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 00:31:38 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > Hmm I remerged nspluginwrapper and FF plays flash fine now, but > > > > Konqueror will still complain about missing plugin. :-( > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Cannot play media.You do not have the correct version of the flash > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

2010-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:46:07 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick wrote: > > > I went into settings and clicked on Scan for new Plugins, but no > > > success. Can you play this link with Konq? > > > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 23.06.2010 08:00, schrieb Rod: > On 23/06/2010 3:43 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: >> >>> Is there a GRUB to GRUB2 migration guide somewhere in the Gentoo >>> Documentation? >>> >>> BR / P-E >>> >> I did it 2 weeks ago with lil help of: >> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 >> >> An

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas U. Nockmann
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] Hello, > But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit > activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No > such device or address (6) I'd got the same message while setting up a hylafax-server. I solved it b

[gentoo-user] Re: reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
On 23 June 2010 07:18, Mick wrote: > I am looking at some php files which are causing parsing errors in Drupal, > like: > = > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in > /var/www/htdocs/sites/all/themes/fusion/fusion_core/template.php on > line 178 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jun 2010, at 17:17, Bill Longman wrote: ... And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debugged, is better than four lines in a config fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:00, Rod wrote: On 23/06/2010 3:43 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Is there a GRUB to GRUB2 migration guide somewhere in the Gentoo Documentation? BR / P-E I did it 2 weeks ago with lil help of: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 And I didn't use the multislot, t

[gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Mick
I am looking at some php files which are causing parsing errors in Drupal, like: = Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /var/www/htdocs/sites/all/themes/fusion/fusion_core/template.php on line 178 Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /var/