Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Carter
Im using the vmware installer on gentoo sucessfully. Seems that 7.1.1 on 2.6.34 is a bit smoother on the install than .35 but it still works. Iirc you just need to set init script stuff You cannot install the package provided by vmware.com. You have to use the Gentoo ebuild. With layman,

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Lie Ryan
On 09/19/10 18:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: Firefox 4 indeed is smoother (probably due to the new animations, probably because none of the plugins I used are compatible yet, but maybe it is just faster); but it is definitely more memory hungrier than before. In Fx3, it usually took around ~20-25%

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Lie Ryan
On 09/19/10 19:04, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 07:45 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Lie Ryan did opine thusly: On 09/19/10 09:22, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Dale
Lie Ryan wrote: On 09/19/10 19:04, Dale wrote: Yep. I use Seamonkey which is browser and email all in one. It doesn't use much when I first start it up. The amount it accumulates as time goes on depends on the websites I go to. If I go to sites that have a lot of flash, pictures and

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped old stuff Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Inc. Could Be Compliant to the Chinese Government in Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC)

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 of Singapore space.time.unive...@gmail.com wrote: Article: Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126333757451026659.html Nice to be back in January and OT ;) I don't think it is

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2010 08:46 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Im using the vmware installer on gentoo sucessfully. Seems that 7.1.1 on 2.6.34 is a bit smoother on the install than .35 but it still works. Iirc you just need to set init script stuff This is taken care of by the ebuild. Also, the modules are not

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-21 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Thomas Drueke wrote: Thanks for hints, but no luck so far. Yohan, using xterm instead of konsole results in the same delay. To rule some other things out, you could also try: unset DISPLAY su - DISPLAY is one of the differences between a text konsole

[gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following: undefined reference to `PR_strtod' undefined reference to `PR_GetEnv' Those are defined in the nspr package. Do you have the latest nspr

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Drueke
Thanks for the hint. unset DISPLAY let su - complete immediately. I'll check my bashrc/profile + xauth related things to see what might cause this. Thomas Am 21.09.2010 12:10, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Thomas Drueke wrote: Thanks for hints, but no luck so

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-21 Thread Grant
I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server.  Running mcelog I get: # mcelog HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! [...] Should I just contact the hosting company?  Can anyone give me more info on what this means?  Bad memory?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following: undefined reference to `PR_strtod' undefined reference to `PR_GetEnv' Those are defined in the nspr package.

[gentoo-user] Loading de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz by hand results in deadkeys -why?

2010-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, (Using 64bit Gentoo and 2.6.34.6 vanilla kernel...) still haveing the problem of no nodeadkeys I have loaded /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz with the command loadkeys while being root to see what happens: loadkeys says: Loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following: undefined reference to `PR_strtod' undefined reference to `PR_GetEnv' Those are defined in the nspr package.

Re: [gentoo-user] su in konsole takes much longer to complete in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Drueke
Just to let you know that I solved this (at least somehow) by using kdm as login manager and no longer start KDE via .xinitrc/startkde. It seems some more configuration/program-startup is done by kdm which solves this. Thanks for your help. Thomas Am 21.09.2010 19:29, schrieb Thomas Drueke:

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Sep 2010, at 18:37, Grant wrote: I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server. Running mcelog I get: ... They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they said would take a number of hours. Is a memory test likely to help? Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network stalling for MINUTES at a

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 20:15:05 Stroller wrote: On 21 Sep 2010, at 18:37, Grant wrote: I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server. Running mcelog I get: ... They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they said would

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same

[gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/21/2010 11:28 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following: undefined reference to `PR_strtod' undefined reference to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xulrunner emerge problem

2010-09-21 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:49:48PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/21/2010 11:28 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/20/2010 04:17 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am finding that when I try to emerge xulrunner on the recent update I get the following:

Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors

2010-09-21 Thread Grant
I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server.  Running mcelog I get: ... They offered to take my machine down and do a memory test which they said would take a number of hours.  Is a memory test likely to help? Did you suggest reseating or

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't connect to new router

2010-09-21 Thread Grant
I just got a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router but I can't seem connect to it.  I've tried the Gentoo initscript as well as wicd. With the initscript, I get: wlan3: carrier lost wlan3: timed out I see a lot of this in dmesg: b43-phy0 ERROR: MAC suspend failed I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread Jake Moe
On 21/09/10 17:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped old stuff Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. Not even when I played