Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-04, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 100704 Dale wrote: My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start. Sort of have to have one to get to the other. I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you don't know what to tell Google to find, Google

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Blackdream W
Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find 2010/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Dale
Blackdream W wrote: Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is called. You can't Google for a 'thing em a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Blackdream W
T_T I just want 2 say: . 2010/7/5 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Blackdream W wrote: Hmmm... I don't think so,because what question u have ==what to tell Google to find If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it. If you

[gentoo-user] Any recent LVM changes?

2010-07-05 Thread felix
I have two backup drives which use LVM partitions and groups. I also have LVM partitions and groups on my main system. When I try even vgscan on the backup disks, I get weird errors. Read errors, can't find the vg groups, can't write ... sort of works for reading, but I wasn't interested in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a screen videom Googling for linux How to capture a screen video gives several answers :) -- Neil Bothwick When you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Blackdream W
Aha,I think u r a funny guys[?] 2010/7/5 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years

[gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf attachment. I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose it must be a Gnome setting. Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote: 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开 For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Philip Webb
100705 Grant Edwards wrote: I had to uninstall a several dozen pkgs before revep-rebuild would work. After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked because emerge was unable to determine the order to rebuild packages. After 2-3 hours of unstalling, revdep rebuild finally ran and then there were

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Philip Webb
100705 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? And what

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our thoughts. +1 I like how folks that have the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Mick
On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a screen videom Googling for linux How to capture a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 07:40 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. I understand they are working hard on reading our

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote: On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you should be searching. Your question was How to capture a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Its obvious, the answers 24. 24? I always thought The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide to the

[gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: If you know what you are looking for is called. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is called. You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results. I concur with Dale (Mick). He would not ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my desktop? I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my mouse clicks and responses from the application. Is there anything other than xvidcap which seems

[gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back to the beginning?

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 17:39:36, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target

[gentoo-user] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, here's an ebuild for zlib, which takes a fixed source from the oss-qm project. it contains several fixes and cleans up ugly hacks in the current ebuild (eg. directly sed'ing sources ;-o). please refer my recent postings on details what the oss-qm project is all about. just a few

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer. Its called Hitch Hikers Guide

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:22:42 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: and I should NEVER try and send a witty reply after 9pm :( It's always after 9pm somewhere... -- Neil Bothwick A computer scientist is someone who, when told to Go to Hell, sees the go to, rather than the destination, as harmful.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages note lib not lib64 /lib is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

2010-07-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 July 2010 16:43:24 James wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my desktop? I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my mouse clicks and responses from the application. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there

[gentoo-user] looking for old gcc dist file

2010-07-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
could people take a look in their distdir and see if they could send me (offlist) the file: gcc-4.0.1-patches-1.0.tar.bz2 i dont know if infra keeps around retired dev's homes, but i'd like ~eradicator/public_html/gcc/ and ~lv/GCC/ ... -mike signature.asc Description: This is a

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org - From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org Subject: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???) To: weig...@metux.de Reply-To: DO NOT REPLY

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? huh?

[gentoo-user] 2.6.34 kernel compile error: DRM problem?

2010-07-05 Thread Grant
I tried to update my laptop and desktop to 2.6.34 but compilation fails with this error: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c: In function 'i915_switcheroo_can_switch': drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c:1419: error: invalid operands to binary == (have 'atomic_t' and 'int') or:

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? huh? This was sent to -dev too. It referenced this bug on that list. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326991 Still not sure what is going on with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Jake Moe
On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 21:55:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 22:09:09, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file

[gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.

2010-07-05 Thread Steve
I already have one openvpn tunnel - and I need another. I've established configuration launching the second tunnel (tun1, while tun0 is launched at boot) using the command line to explicitly start openvpn. I'd really like both tunnels to start at boot time. In case it is relevant, tun0

Re: [gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.

2010-07-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On 06.07.2010 08:17, Steve wrote: What's the recommended gentoo way to launch two openvpn instances? (I assume that's what's required...) $ ls -l /etc/init.d/openvpn* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4198 Feb 17 08:31 /etc/init.d/openvpn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Mar 1 12:28

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-05, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. The reason it wouldn't load is that a

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years