Alan McKinnon writes:
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:
That's right, they should both be in /var.
I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted
read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS).
Any idea why it's different with Gentoo in
Willie Wong writes:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
the notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size?
You mean the other way around, right?
Oh dear. Yes. Thanks.
reiser
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote:
[RANT RANT RANT]
Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a
directory I have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other
directories in /data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files do
Paul Hartman writes:
- utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping
/dev/sda stays /dev/sda always
Good idea. Or use LVM.
- better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need
portage on its own, maybe /var as well?)
I like to have many partitions. When my
Harry Putnam writes:
All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here
about it... googling turns up a herd of bugs involving aclocal but
then newest is 2008.
The newest threads here that even mention aclocal date around Jan 20.
I didn't change the compiler
Alex Schuster wrote:
[KDE4 problems]
And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes
it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no
longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to
become really stable and usable.
And another weekend
Mark Knecht writes:
Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of
knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come
back, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely.
As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to
go?
BRM writes:
If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply
deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a --
depclean will take care of it.
You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P
That would be the easiest method. If you use the
Kyle Bader writes:
I opted to reinstall from source that machine, which wasn't exactly a
bad choice anyway. But as always, rtfm is good advice! Thanks (not
sarcastic, except to mock myself).
Another option other than rsync or dd is to use tar:
Yeah, that's what I usually do.n The
Mark Knecht writes:
Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very
good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that.
My wife's machines is older and and I don't think SMART is
supported on her drive. Note the lack of a * on the SMART line in
hdparm
Mark Knecht writes:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Okay, but it still states:
*SMART error logging
*SMART self-test
So maybe smartctl -t long /dev/hda still works? Just give it a try.
No, -t long fails the same
Peter Humphrey writes:
I'm still using etc-update, which seems adequate except when squid is
upgraded, but I thought I'd try cfg-update. Problem though: it demands
dev-util/xxdiff which doesn't exist. What's a suitable substitute?
Whatever you like. Just edit the MERGETOOL definition in
roun...@hotmail.ru writes:
roun...@lister ~ $ sudo emerge -vp equery
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy equery.
[...]
So what package is it part of?
wo...@weird ~ $ equery belongs
Peter Humphrey writes:
On Thursday 25 February 2010 00:10:18 Alex Schuster wrote:
This KMail window has spell checking which is nice to have. But when
I open the spell checking dialog in order to add words to the
dictionary, I always have to start at the very beginning and reply to
all
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
running out of disk space. A little research showed that an
odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in
some
James Homuth writes:
I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after
reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently
have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist.
But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic
Renat Golubchyk writes:
My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help
her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a
regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and
time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software
Stefan G. Weichinger writes:
Am 17.02.2010 20:10, schrieb walt:
Are you using ext4 on the hard drives also? For how long?
phew, for quite some time ... I'd have to think a while ...
AFAIK there is no way to read that info from the fs
formatted on 2009-06-. or something ;-)
Enrico Weigelt writes:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their
farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer
for. When are they going to start considering the environment?
What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong:
Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just
look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical
sector size is?
Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance
Walt Rarus writes:
I have a java (clojure, actually) program which is invoked via a bash
script. When the script is invoked from the shell, the java program
always runs and succeeds. However, when the script is invoked via a
cron job, the java program always runs and crashes with a null
Dale writes:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Whoops?
Have you synced lately? According to mine it is not masked or
keyworded and should install without changing anything. I synced last
night and I get this:
You're probably running an x86 system, while
Laurent Kappler writes:
I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in
portage is 6.5.7.
How could I do that??
Look in the attic [*] for old ebuilds. Looks like 6.4.7.0 is not
available, so maybe you will download 6.4.8.3 which is the nearest
version. Put the ebuild
Wow, seven mostly similar answers. Is the list becoming slow? When I
posted about an hour after the question was posted, there were no answers
yet. Let's see how long this post takes to arrive. Usually it's just a
matter of a few minutes.
Wonko
Walt Rarus writes:
WALRUS ~ # whoami
root
WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/
ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild:
Permission denied
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 771
Hi there!
I'm using KDE4, but there are still some kde3.5 apps. I noticed that
kmymoney2 does not use the comma as decimal point like we do this in
Germany. I was about to file a bug report, but now I think it is correct,
because I did my localization settings in KDE4 only. I still have lots
Jarry writes:
I just noticed I have *a lot of* tty/pty files in dev:
obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/pty* | wc -l
256
obelix ~ # ls -l /dev/tty* | wc -l
325
They have names from /dev/ptya0 till /dev/ptyzf, then
pty0-pty63, and ttya0-ttyzf. Is this normal? I thought
udev creates device-files as
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
Am Freitag 22 Januar 2010 15:19:14 schrieb Alex Schuster:
Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and with
lower versions I get somewhat further, but building does not finish,
too.
Any ideas why it's gone? Or where to look to find this out
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster:
And: Do you know about a replacement which takes a bunch of audio
files and converts them info another format? I can do this on the
command line, but transkode already has some presets for common
formats
Hi there!
media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting
various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the
kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was
removed.
Building it manually does not work at all with gcc-4.3, and
Joseph writes:
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote:
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both
machine cupsd does not start at boot.
What to do about it?
It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as OK
but when
Hi there!
It's done! I'm at ~x86 now. The upgrade went quite smooth - had to resolve
some blockers, and mask the new x.org 1.7 because it does not work at all
with ati-drivers.
**BUT:** After rebooting, I ran into a very nasty KDE4 bug. All
authentication dialogs did not work. So I had no KDE
James writes:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
On 2009-06-28, the answer was this:
for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f
.ebuild; done
I'm trying to find a file or
Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote:
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full
~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while
going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the
kdm login
Helmut Jarausch writes:
emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single
(needed) package has been masked.
But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in
kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked.
Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't
Zeerak Waseem writes:
I have some questions about sets:
1) Sets are just files with one package per line in /usr/portage/sets,
right?
I think it's /etc/portage/sets instead. And there are also meta-sets like
system, world, module-rebuild, preserved-rebuild and more, defined in
Hello.
If you want to test for 64bit extensions processor support, why won't
you try it in VirtualBox or VMware? I think it's better for tests than
install a second system on your second partition. Much faster and easier to
use virtualization, no?
Dale writes:
Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my
/home directory. I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and
muddy up the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with
the bash Gentoo uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too.
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote:
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on
the disk.
And the resulting effect from doing that once is:
Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did
the
Joshua Murphy writes:
A) To fill the drive with zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drive
Should be enough for practical purposes.
B) And, to make it at least questionable whether you wiped it or
merely had it encrypted:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/drive
Similar method, but faster:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
I did by hand and now I have another problem:
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: dri
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
(II) UnloadModule: dri
(EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: dri2
(WW) Warning,
Xi Shen writes:
yes i use / on LVM.
Me too.
i just cannot understand why the busybox in the initramfs that
genkernel generates works fine, while mine reports error.
And I do not understand why the wiping tmp stuff actually happens while
you are still in the initramfs. For me, /tmp is not
Xi Shen writes:
when i boot my system, at the step Wiping /tmp, it pops up an error
message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option.
in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it
used the wrong find command.
Did you emerge busybox with the
Xi Shen writes:
i have 3 machines in my LAN, all of them have distcc installed and are
configured to use all 3 machines to compile. on one machine i started
emerging a very large ebuild, but only the local machine on of the 2
remote machine is compiling, while the other one is idle. if i
Hi there!
When I plug in an USB stick (with a VFAT partition), the device manager
plasmoid notifies me and allows to mount it. That's fine, but I would like
the permissions to be different, so that another user is able to write to
it. This user is using the same desktop, he is logged in via
Mike Diehl writes:
BTW, the nfs mounts are done via /etc/init.d/nfs, which does a mount -a
nfs.
Not here. Are you using baselayout-2 or something?
Some while ago, I had problems (not similar to yours) when mounting NFS
shares before I had started /etc/init.d/nfs-client, which is called
Alan McKinnon mentions yet another cool utility:
xrestop is also useful
Cool! Great tip! Again.
Wonko
Renat Golubchyk writes:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com
wrote:
When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at
the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It
seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
$ fdisk -l sda.dd.img
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Disk sda.dd.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
Alan E. Davis writes:
I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5
mounted as /newroot, using
# cp -ax / /newroot
I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall
there are some other steps necessary.
/dev needs at least the entries console
Jarry writes:
I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
there are not all of them...
There's also /usr/local/portage/layman/*/profiles/use.local.desc
Wonko
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Monday 16 November 2009 21:40:42 Alex Schuster wrote:
Alan McKinnon writes:
I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection:
amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database
selected on INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM
Mick writes:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote:
Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man
page for more information.
Hmm ... how do you keep your log files under control?
I am using app-admin/metalog (http://metalog.sourceforge.net
Jarry writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man
page for more information.
Let me ask: how do you deal with /var/log/wtmp? I think it does not
go through syslog, and even it it does, it is not easy to process it
whit that syslog
Alan McKinnon writes:
Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1?
Sort of.
I get errors like this whenever amarok updates the collection:
amarok: [ERROR!] GREPME MySQL query failed! No database
selected on INSERT INTO images SELECT * FROM images_temp;
Neil Walker writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is
running Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at
24 MB.
Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top
that in a few hours. ;)
It's
Jarry writes:
Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10:
--
SUBJECT: Cron r...@obelix test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
/usr/sbin/run-crons
error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line
error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line
Alan McKinnon wrote:
clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge
-avuND world everywhere
This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am
administrating. Nice, now this is an improvement over my 'for $h in
$HOSTS; do ssh $h yum install foo;
Richard Marza writes:
I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a
dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the
primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP
addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 19:36:06 Alex Schuster wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge
-avuND world everywhere
This is way cool. I just started using it on eight Fedora servers I am
administrating. Nice
Helmut Jarausch writes:
The reason is the following bug.
To use an old printer (no USB connector) I've purchased
a USB-to-parallel adapater (since some software like VirtualBox
cannot handle the parallel port).
[...]
First, for my PC at home, I don't have a local network and my old
Arnau Bria writes:
I've rebuild my xorg-server with no hal support, I've upgraded my
kernel to 2.6.30-r8 and rebuild all xf86 drivers/libs/proto
packages:
[...]
Then, I use nvidia-xconf for geenrating my xorg.conf file and looks
like:
[...]
Section Device
Identifier VGA
Thanks for your replies, guys! They have been helpful. I think I know what
to do now. And that is... wait. Until I have some time to spare for this.
Then, after a backup, I will perform the migration. Now let's see that
this openrc and baselayout-2 is that I have read people talking about for
KH writes:
Alex Schuster schrieb:
[snip]
Or net-misc/youtube-dl, which changes quite
frequently to adopt to youtube changes, and I want to always have the
newest version. [snip]
see bgo 286366 and report you are fine with it. Maybe it will become
stable, then.
https
Hi there!
I am not running ~x86 at the moment. I like to stay on the safer side, and
it has not been too much trouble. Yet. There are things in have in
package.keywords, quite a lot actually.
Most packages are not a problem. Examples are games-fps/quake3, games-
fps/worldofpadman or
Maxim Wexler writes:
When I ran #emerge -C xfce4-meta, portage went through the motions of
removing the pkg but when I ran startx to see what happened xfce4
appeared as usual.
Same as after a boot.
When I run the above command again, portage reports Couldn't find
'null/xfce4' to
2009/11/11 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com:
The remote end cut you off. Try another mirror.
Is this a know infrastructure issue. It seems to happening a lot
lately. I'm wary of retrying lest I end up on a ban list.
--
Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
http://www.half
Philip Webb writes:
There is a problem somewhere it mb a small fix for my machine
it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it.
Try 'strace xterm' in a terminal with long scrollback history, press the
enter key a couple of times when it hangs, and analyze the output at
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
On Dienstag 10 November 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:26:33 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
amarok works great here.
Everything works great somewhere, even Windows :P
seroiously, what does not work great with amarok? it compiles, it
Rudmer van Dijk writes:
On Monday 09 November 2009, Dale wrote:
Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
well it turns out that sun-jdk-1.6.0.17 has suddenly been license
masked...
adding ACCEPT_LICENSE=dlj-1.1 to make.conf lets sun-jdk be
accepted again. no more spontaneous forced installation
Dale writes:
I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then
going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper
then let it update. Something like:
emerge -C device-mapper emerge -uvDN world
That's my plan at least. Unless someone else posts a
Dale writes:
I'm in the middle of a world update. I'm sort of doing it in parts
because of the device-mapper issue. Anyway, I keep getting the
@preserved-rebuild at the end of the emerge. I run it and it wants to
run it again. When I run it again, it wants to run it again. It's the
same
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So
in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still
have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old
lvm2 and without device-mapper, probably yes
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a
while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does
anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort?
I looked at the
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Like so:
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../libipsec -
D_GNU_SOURCE -include ./src/include-glibc/glibc-bugs.h
-I./src/include-glibc -
I./src/include-glibc -I./../../src/racoon/missing
Hi there!
Again, this is just something I am curious about, not a real problem.
emerge -p --depclean gives me this output:
[...]
Calculating dependencies... done!
Checking for lib consumers...
Assigning files to packages...
* In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
Jarry writes:
# emerge --depclean
[...]
* In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
* packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
* packages that pulled them in.
*
* sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4 pulled in by:
* dev-lang/php-5.2.10
Arnau Bria writes:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 + Peter Haworth wrote:
Section Device
Identifier Device0
Driver nvidia
VendorName NVIDIA Corporation
EndSection
tried with only that section, it hangs and had to reboot
Did you try the
Arnau Bria writes:
I have hal support in it, but also still keyboard and mouse sections
in xorg.conf. I also have
Option AutoAddDevices false
Option AllowEmptyInput false
in the ServerLayout section to make them still work. so I can easier
switch
Harry Putnam writes:
Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but
at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore.
Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags?
It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for
x.org, but for other things
Harry Putnam writes:
I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have
forgotten why I had it masked.
I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to
most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could
expect in the way of problems.
Robin Atwood wrote:
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
[...]
emerge -a @preserved-rebuild suggests to rebuild two packages, but
continues to do so after emerging them.
[...]
r...@tanja src -- emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
These are the packages that would be merged
Jesús Guerrero writes:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús
Marcus Wanner writes:
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the
entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for
how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being
(afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks!
Mark Knecht writes:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote:
SNIP
Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that
did the trick.
You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the
two packages get marked stable
Hi there!
Any idea why this happens? It's no problem, I'm just curious.
r...@tanja src -- emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies ... done!
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
[ebuild R ]
Sebastian Beßler writes:
Am 27.10.2009 02:03, schrieb Dale:
This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message
sent to me a loong time ago.
Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B
Yes, it is.
But
Mark Knecht writes:
BTW - EVERY problem I was having when I dealt with this sort of thing
a couple of months ago was visible in some sense in the Xorg.0.log
files. I would look for errors, figure out what was causing them,
mostly being config issues in my case, and then fix them and try
Mick writes:
Hmm ... wonder if this is also why
kdewallet (or modern equivalent) is no longer there?
The KDE4 still has the kdewallet which I find quite useful. As I started my
KDE4 setup from scratch, I saved the wallet with KDE3.5 and imported that in
KDE4.
Wonko
Hi there!
Now all this X stuff is becoming really annoying. I struggled for days to
get it to work again after the upgrade to 1.6. I have a Radeon HD3200 and
tried using fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa, or no xorg.conf at all. I got a
blank screen only and no apparent errors in the Xorg log. So
Mark Knecht writes:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
I have a couple of old Asus Pundit-R machines that I use for MythTV
frontends which had the same sort of problems - a specific ATI VGA
9100 IGP design built into the chipset and I needed TVout
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series)
which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers
might still work for a while, but only with kernels 2.6.29. And I
suspect
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ?
Config file and logs are already here:
http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/
Wonko
Jesús Guerrero writes:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the
monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby mode?
The monitors complain about bad frequencies. The TFT then enters
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote:
Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh
settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4.
How do I go about copying them over?
I did
cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4
and all the
Mick writes:
Could it be that all this is caused by KDE-4.3 going stable? Perhaps I
should now bite the bullet unmerge all my KDE-3.5 packages and start a
mammoth emerge of KDE-4 ?
Uh, I am running KDE 4 for half a year now, but it still lacks stability. I
still like it, and I can live
Mick writes:
2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org:
I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror
(fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop
overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and
jump straight into KDE4 when I
Alan McKinnon writes:
KMail is fine on 4.3.2. I had issues with it randomly crashing when I
moved mails around, but that seems to have been sorted with the latest
version.
I also had some problems, when moving some thousands of IMAP mails, but I
also had this with 3.5. I am using
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