Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Paul, it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including 2.6.36 concerning drivers/gpu/drm/radeon when it comes to all graphics chips like RV350. Does anybody know about a patch for gentoo-sources-2.6.36 ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. On 10/22/10 17:04:24, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I have an old RV350 9600 ATI graphic card and the open source radeon driver works fine with 2.6.36 kernel. Cheers, -- Jacques Le 25/10/2010 09:50, Helmut Jarausch a gentiment tapote: Hi Paul, it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including 2.6.36 concerning

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:26 on Monday 25 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it doesn't mean it's not justified. I now have

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know that he doesn't need sandbox. Once for fun I build a gentoo system in VirtualBox and left sandbox out by accident. The results were ... awful. Bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: FEATURES= buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going I thought --keep-going goes into EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, no? --    Fatih

Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-25 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, On most of my kde workstations when I plug in a usb(memory)stick and popup screen appears Devices recently plugged in: On one kde system, this does not occur and I do not know what app/software to install or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/25/10 10:15:46, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, I have an old RV350 9600 ATI graphic card and the open source radeon driver works fine with 2.6.36 kernel. That depends on the application. e.g. glxgears runs fine while a PyOpenGL application crashes the whole machine. See

[gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated - OT parallel-fetch

2010-10-25 Thread KH
Am 25.10.2010 04:36, schrieb Dale: FEATURES= buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going Hi, parallel-fetch is default and no need to list it in make.conf any more. I notices when I had to add -parallel-fetch to one of my boxes. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/25/2010 01:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know that he doesn't need sandbox. Once for fun I build a gentoo system in VirtualBox and left sandbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:09 on Monday 25 October 2010, Bill Longman did opine thusly: On 10/25/2010 01:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Although, perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't alpha come *before* release candidate? :) Yes, but: 2.2.0_alpha1 comes *after* 2.2_rc99 It should

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:18:23 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: 2.2.0_alpha1 comes *after* 2.2_rc99 It should also come after 2.2, but I appear to have missed that release. Why? 2.2 == 2.2.0 Not in portage's eyes. So 2.2.0_alpha1 would make a logical progression. Since when did an

[gentoo-user] Help to unsubscribe

2010-10-25 Thread Gregory Fontenele
how to unsubscribe? I try to send mail for gentoo-user-unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org but nothing happens -- Gregory

Re: [gentoo-user] Help to unsubscribe

2010-10-25 Thread KH
Am 25.10.2010 16:33, schrieb Gregory Fontenele: how to unsubscribe? I try to send mail for gentoo-user-unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org http://lists.gentoo.org but nothing happens -- Gregory Hi Gregory, this is expected behavior. It is like hotel california. You can never leave. You

[gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get: ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819) !!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 20776689 !!! Expected: 11602819 Refetching... File renamed

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Monday 25 October 2010 17:52:14, Joseph a écrit : I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get: ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819) !!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got:

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Joseph
On 10/25/10 18:04, St?phane Guedon wrote: Le Monday 25 October 2010 17:52:14, Joseph a ?crit : I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get: ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819) !!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2010 08:37 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help! I've had vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it sporadically!) it's stopped. I don't know if its the old GTK issue or what. No google searches has found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer version of Workstation :P 7.1.2 is the current version (and it's in the vmware overlay.) $100+tax is a lot to pay to upgrade something you only use sporadically. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 25 October 2010, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get: ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819) !!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 20776689 !!!

[gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread Laurent Kappler
Hi, I'm trying to emerge apache withe EXTRA_CFLAGS+=-g to be able to use the Core Dump behaviour as recommended here: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html How should I do that? thx Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:26 on Monday 25 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 25 October 2010 9:50:30 pm Allan Gottlieb wrote: Yes? yes -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size

2010-10-25 Thread Joseph
On 10/26/10 00:18, Robin Atwood wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get: ('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819) !!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED! !!! Reason: Filesize does not match

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Laurent Kappler rwx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge apache withe EXTRA_CFLAGS+=-g to be able to use the Core Dump behaviour as recommended here: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html How should I do that? thx Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Laurent Kappler rwx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge apache withe EXTRA_CFLAGS+=-g to be able to use the Core Dump behaviour as recommended here:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 1:20:25 am Kfir Lavi wrote: Ok, thinking again, just emerge apache, and make sure it emerges alone. Then change temporarily your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf emerge apache revert to the old make.conf Regards, Kfir i would normall create the file

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread covici
Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2010 1:20:25 am Kfir Lavi wrote: Ok, thinking again, just emerge apache, and make sure it emerges alone. Then change temporarily your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf emerge apache revert to the old make.conf Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:05 on Monday 25 October 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:55:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Not what you asked for, but my advise is to upgrade to a newer version of Workstation :P 7.1.2 is the current version (and it's in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge with EXTRA_CFLAGS

2010-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:00:36 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: i would normall create the file /etc/portage/env/www-servers/apache containing CFLAGS=... Can I also use this to add EXTRA_ECONF if I need it for a particular package? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick Q: What's the proper

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi all, looking for some serious vmware debugging help!  I've had vmware-workstation working for ages, but sometime this year (ok I use it sporadically!) it's stopped.  I don't know if its the old GTK issue or what.  

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel. I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to fix).

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. Monitor: Gateway 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:42 -0500, Dale wrote: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? I'm going to take the side off and blow out the case in a bit and test again. I'm open to ideas

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adam Carter adamcarter3 at gmail.com writes: My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:42 -0500, Dale wrote: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? I'm going to take the side off and blow out the case in a bit and test again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Have you tried 2.6.34? FWIW i use gentoo-sources. I have no useful ideas at this point - beyond my level. Have you tried running it with strace to establish what its doing just before it dies? Does ldd show any missing libs? malloc = Memory ALLOCation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well, at least we know there is a problem and it isn't just us. If you find something, let us know. I would hate to know I had to try to watch a DVD right now. I doubt it would even start up. o_O BTW, hal is disabled on xorg here. It's enabled on other things but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread me
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Well, at least we know there is a problem and it isn't just us.   If you find something, let us know.   I would hate to know I had to try to watch a DVD right now.  I doubt it would even start up.  o_O BTW, hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The chief enemy of creativity is good sense

[gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, over the last week or so I've noticed unusually large swap usage. I usually hibernate this laptop and have uptimes up to 12 days so apps can run for a long time. I don't usually use any swap space (except for a few k). If I swapoff and swapon, the usage falls back to zero but then creeps