Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Thanasis
I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:42:02 -0800, Grant wrote: Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? emerge -Pa cat/pkg will remove all but the latest version. -- Neil Bothwick But I thought YOU did the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:10:49 + (UTC), KIM WHALEN wrote: The base system and xorg-x11 seems to be set up alright. However, when I run startx as a regular user I get errors about drm, dri, and dri2 modules and the screen. We can't help if you keep the errors secret. -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-05 Thread Jacques Montier
Yes, setting gdu useflag to -gdu for gvfs did the trick ! Great job David ! Thank you ! Cheers, -- Jacques Site web https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Le 04/01/2011 21:23, David Abbott a gentiment tapote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Steffen Loos
Am 05.01.2011 06:00, schrieb Dale: William Kenworthy wrote: Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for heavily active databases for instance) That's what i meant in my earlier post and what the

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:51:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have rc_parallel=YES in /etc/rc.conf? Nope. These are the only values set in that file; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin rc_hotplug=!* rc_logger=YES rc_start_wait=100 unicode=YES

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the initialization of the available

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there. The graphics card as identified by the system is:

[gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
What I'm trying to accomplish: For some packages, when a new version is available, to be able to merge them without adding them to /etc/portage/package.keyword, and when/if the installed version is marked as stable I wish eix-test-obsolete won't tell me that this particular package is

[gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Problems in KDE widget land. I did a daily emerge -DuN @world yesterday. Everything seemed fine until I booted up this morning. Now a number of my KDE desktop widgets are all saying Could not create a python scriptengine for the FadingCalendar widget. (change the name for each widget

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: The first package in emerge gnome that gives me problems is the app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.1 package. When emerged by itself I get the following output. # emerge -pv app-text/gnome-doc-utils checking for a Python interpreter with version = 2.4...

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine

2011-01-05 Thread ich bins
Am 05.01.2011 15:19, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Problems in KDE widget land. I did a daily emerge -DuN @world yesterday. Everything seemed fine until I booted up this morning. Now a number of my KDE desktop widgets are all saying Could not create a python scriptengine for the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin rc_hotplug=!* rc_logger=YES rc_start_wait=100 unicode=YES rc_tty_number=12 [...] Hmm. I'm wondering about

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:20 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: The first package in emerge gnome that gives me problems is the app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.1 package. When emerged by itself I get the following output. # emerge -pv app-text/gnome-doc-utils checking

[gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 08:42 PM, James wrote: All, Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file. Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 0 0

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine

2011-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:19:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Looking at my emerge log it seem that PyQt4 was emerged yesterday. I see other reports on the web of this problem some 2 years ago on some platforms where PyQt was presumed to be involved. I've made no use flag or package changes on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:43:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the only values set in [/etc/rc.conf]; everything else is comment: rc_interactive=YES rc_shell=/sbin/sulogin

[gentoo-user] The pound sign

2011-01-05 Thread Mike
No you wags, not #, I mean a real ?! I'm having a tiny bit of trouble with my Gentoo install. I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop and on both I have set the keymap in whichever config file it should be set in (/etc/rc.conf?). Result is that on a vtty I can login and use my keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I ought to do some detective work first, if only to decide which subsystem to log it against. The trouble with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Jörg Schaible writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I would be surprised if it had this feature. AFAIK grub is already done at this stage, the kernel has taken over. And I guess it does not know about the LABEL= syntax, and has no code to scan all devices for file system labels. I fear so,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:19:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    Looking at my emerge log it seem that PyQt4 was emerged yesterday. I see other reports on the web of this problem some 2 years ago on some platforms where PyQt was

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:19:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    Looking at my emerge log it seem that PyQt4 was emerged yesterday. I see other reports on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Jörg Schaible writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I would be surprised if it had this feature. AFAIK grub is already done at this stage, the kernel has taken over. And I guess it does not know about the LABEL= syntax, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:18 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Jörg Schaible writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I would be surprised if it had this feature. AFAIK grub is already done

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:54 on Wednesday 05 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:32:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now we need to figure out *why* it was causing your problems I could just hand it over to the devs via a bug report, but I ought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP AFAIK, initramfs is the newer preferred one and it's either one or the other with initrd being seldom used these days if at all. Many people still call it initrd even if int's initramfs in use - sort of a

Re: [gentoo-user] The pound sign

2011-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:50:48 Mike wrote: No you wags, not #, I mean a real £! I'm having a tiny bit of trouble with my Gentoo install. I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop and on both I have set the keymap in whichever config file it should be set in (/etc/rc.conf?). Result

[gentoo-user] Zenoss on Gentoo?

2011-01-05 Thread BRM
Is there a Gentoo Package for Zenoss Community edition (http://community.zenoss.org/community/download)? It's available via sf.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/). If not, oh well. I saw it recommend on another list for something I thought may be interested in trying out at home.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-05 Thread Grant
Thank you, that fixed it.  I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but functionality seems to be intact. Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of the older version of php that must be installed in another slot?  I'm hoping that simplifies things a bit.  PHP on

Re: [gentoo-user] Zenoss on Gentoo?

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:43 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a Gentoo Package for Zenoss Community edition (http://community.zenoss.org/community/download)? It's available via sf.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/). If not, oh well. I saw it recommend on another list

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-05 Thread walt
On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to

[gentoo-user] LANG, LC_*, and unicode

2011-01-05 Thread felix
I installed a package which nattered at me: elog messages for the following packages generated by process 22063 on host df.crowfix.com: - app-dicts/aspell-fo-0.51.0 Messages generated for package app-dicts/aspell-fo-0.51.0 by process 22063 on 20110105-150049 PST: ERROR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-05 Thread James
Thanks for the responses folks. Neither suggestion made a difference; I disabled the AllowEmptyInput option, ensured xf86-input-evdev, and then removed all references to the trackpoint in the xorg.conf file. It's worth noting that if I configure the InputDevice (commented in the email below) to

[gentoo-user] pdf - txt

2011-01-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf - txt

2011-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/06/2011 05:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task? Thank you very much in advance for any help!

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Hi again, Little update. I tried every version of ntp in the tree including one released in the past few days that was supposed to have some more bug fixes. No joy. Same thing in the log file and ntp.drift. It just would not adjust the clock like it should and did on my old rig. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-05 Thread Dale
Steffen Loos wrote: If i remember right your new rig is AMD-Phenom based?! - then just have a look at http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.4.2.7. If your clocksource is the tsc it's possible youre affected by this problem. At

Re: [gentoo-user] LANG, LC_*, and unicode

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Longman
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls /usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/f* and the only difference was whether f\ufffdroyskt.alias was first or last in the listing. It still displayed the unicode char as \ufffd. So supposing I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and do nothing else. Will it simply change how unusual file names are

Re: [gentoo-user] LANG, LC_*, and unicode

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Longman
And make sure your /etc/locale.gen has the right locales