[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] I then tried copying as best I can from the working kernel config of 2.6.24-r8 by running menuconfig in that directory and genkernel --menuconfig all in the new kernel directory. I'd already tried the same thing but without genkernel... just calling make after

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Just to make sure you're doing it right... [...] Forgot to mention that no initrd is needed and the grub.conf should not have an inird line.

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: I've been looking for an ATI graphics card with a water cooling system built in. I'm very tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. I believe Sapphire has those under the label WaterCooled. HD3870X2 and HD4870 I think. Google for Sapphire WaterCooled.

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Miguel Ramos wrote: 2008/12/11 Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de: But the result isn't very good. I have the following behaviour consistently: boot system, X starts fine, I close X on purpose, second time X doesn't start, receives signal 11, third time on starting X my

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:16:59 +, Miguel Ramos wrote: I did put the lengthly list of files in package.keywords with ~amd64, but I'm not sure this is the beast approach in the long run. Make /etc/portage/package.keywords a directory, then run autounmask

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 01:24:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Then did the above command. All it did was creating a file autounmask-xorg-server with this inside: # --- # BEGIN: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 # --- =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3 ~amd64

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target and I got it mixed up here. Sorry.)

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target

[gentoo-user] Keyboard layout switching with Alt+Shift

2008-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
In KDE 3.5.10, I can't switch keyboard layouts with Alt+Shift even though that option is enabled in the control center: Regional Accessibility-Keyboard Layout -Xkb Option-Layout Switching-[x] Alt+Shift change layout. The generated Command is: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle It

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard layout switching with Alt+Shift

2008-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: In KDE 3.5.10, I can't switch keyboard layouts with Alt+Shift even though that option is enabled in the control center: Regional Accessibility-Keyboard Layout -Xkb Option-Layout Switching-[x] Alt+Shift change layout

[gentoo-user] depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
emerge -av --depclean: kde-base/kopete selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kget selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kmenuedit selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 The

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 08:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge -av --depclean: kde-base/kopete selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kget selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The reason is that KDE4 is a new product and has nothing to do with KDE3 other than the name. And another reason is the problem I'm describing in this very thread which should have not been a problem if KDE4 had its own tree. Now I'm required to have non

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:34:39 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Another problem, this time not technical. I just don't want many of those packages in my world file. I want to use depclean and have those packages removed when the package that depends on them is also removed

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: kde-base/kate kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/ksmserver These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If they get unmerge, things will break. KDevelop will break without Kate, and KDE 3.5 itself will break without the other two. :P OK

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 14:35:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: kdeprefix has nothing to do with KDE3. It's not needed. It's only needed to have many KDE4 versions at the same time

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:18:27AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: kde-base/kate kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/ksmserver These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If they get unmerge, things

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4 path

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it doesn't matter a bit how that path looks

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:37:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are running a KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded. Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and last in KDE 4

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all. Not here % echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all. Not here % echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

[gentoo-user] Unknown media type errors

2008-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I get a lot of these lately: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in

[gentoo-user] Re: Orphan packages

2008-12-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't find any such discussions. Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to have a layman overlay

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [...] what would be the best way to defrag it? By not defragging it. [...] I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy the whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation (ext3

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time I did this (over 8 months ago): emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time

[gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I already did the rsync/format thing a few times over the last years, and the results are always the same: very fast filesystem for about a month, then it starts getting slower over time. I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole

[gentoo-user] How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world?

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There are quite a few overlays that offer helpful ebuilds. kde-testing for example is one of them. However, I don't use it (and others) because I can't find a way of stopping the hordes of chaos that appear when doing emerge -u world. Is there really no way to somehow deal with this? Right

[gentoo-user] Re: How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world?

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:30:56 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There are quite a few overlays that offer helpful ebuilds. kde-testing for example is one of them. However, I don't use it (and others) because I can't find a way of stopping the hordes of chaos that appear

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Watch him slowly convert them over to Gentoo. o_O Then he'll be back and asking who has a server like theirs. lol Thats a FACT! Many workstation users never discover the joy of running gentoo based servers. They are really easy to

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Norberto Bensa wrote: On Saturday December 27 2008 15:14:26 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I run Debian on my server because it's set and forget. With Gentoo at home, I have to take good care of it to keep it going. Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just set and forget

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just set and forget your Gentoo boxes? Gentoo is difficult to install. Well, it's not really difficult - but it takes awfully longer than

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core e6...@3.33ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM. I have to use version 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 for my kernel or it does the same thing. Someone mentioned

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just set and forget your Gentoo boxes? Gentoo is difficult to install. For who? And BTW, that doesn't answer the question. Huh? I answered it right next

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core e6...@3.33ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM. Just like me, but I have it set to default clock: 2.4GHz. Beyond that, it gets somewhat

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Summary of request for help: Are there hardcore kernel builders in the house who can steer me to a faster way of figuring out what the installed modules do... for sure. Well, my bit of wisdom here: Don't use modules. Do a make menuconfig, disable everything you

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 20:27:37 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Harry Putnam wrote: Summary of request for help: Are there hardcore kernel builders in the house who can steer me to a faster way of figuring out what the installed modules do... for sure. Well, my

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: [...] Well, my bit of wisdom here: Don't use modules. Do a make menuconfig, disable everything you don't need, and compile everything you need in-kernel instead of as a module. I'd say the disable everything you don't need part

[gentoo-user] Re: provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Simon wrote: Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:13:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have this in my make.conf: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID} Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy. Just a few hours ago I updated to gcc-4.3.2-r1. Even with nice

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: [...] I would assume I don't have evdev here. Since I asked equery for anything with dev in it, it should have listed it if it was installed. That is why I ask if there was something new. I can't say that I have ever heard of evdev before. For X, it's the

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: [...] I would assume I don't have evdev here. Since I asked equery for anything with dev in it, it should have listed it if it was installed. That is why I ask if there was something new. I can't say that I have ever heard of evdev before

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the trend continues, desktop

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
David Bourgeois wrote: Hi, I have much trouble to get sata working with an Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) interface from a Compaq dc5800. The minimal CD 2008.0 uses the ata driver and not sata so harddisks are registered as /dev/hda. After installation, my custom kernel does the same and I had to

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE settings) and enable * AHCI SATA support in the kernel. Another note: Make sure you *first* build a kernel with AHCI support and *then* change the option in the BIOS or else Linux won't boot either :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
David Bourgeois wrote: Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) Glad it works, but in any case, search the BIOS for things like SATA or Native. Usually the choices are: 1. IDE emulation, Compatible 2. RAID 3. AHCI, Native, SATA

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: On 30 Dec 2008, at 13:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... It seems you have set up the SATA controller to do (sub-optimal) IDE/PATA emulation rather than native AHCI. Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE settings) and enable * AHCI SATA support

[gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called enthusiasts, I'll drop the question here ;) In KDE (3), when enabling the fade effect for menus, clicking on a menu results in a faint,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Matt Harrison wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called enthusiasts, I'll drop the question here ;) In KDE (3), when enabling the fade effect for menus

[gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John covici wrote: Also, if I want to roll back, say, /etc/init.d/fsck, I am not sure which file to choose -- in the archive directory there is an /etc/init.d directory which contains fsck and fsck.dist. I would imagine that fsck is my old one and fsck.dist is the new one -- now what happens

[gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John covici wrote: on Thursday 01/01/2009 Nikos Chantziaras(rea...@arcor.de) wrote You cannot roll back if you choose to keep the new file with dispatch-conf and didn't backup the current one first. Then what is the purpose of the config-archive directory which I was asked to create

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Michael P. Soulier wrote: [...] I see many posts like this but few suggestions as to how the problem could have been avoided ahead of time. You can open a bug about it and suggest something.

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit tab for the bash completion, it gives an error -bash:

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James Stull wrote: What is the best way to block this package? On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:35 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: James Stull wrote: I switched my eselect profile from a generic gentoo system to desktop. Unfortunately I keep getting this error when I run emerge -uDNav world I

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /etc/portage/packages.use: dev-java/sun-jdk -doc Typo. It's /etc/portage/package.use. You need to emerge -N world after that.

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: 2009/1/4 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Before I file a bug, I want to see if this is reproducible by others: After I boot into the console, if I type anything and then hit

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:13:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: Oops, I should have been more clear. Although there's no such entry in my .bashrc, and also none in /etc/skel/.bashrc, but bash completion *works* without flaw both in login shells as well

[gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:20:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: If your /etc/skel/.bashrc doesn't have an entry for bash completion but your ~/.bashrc does, then I guess it's not needed anymore but probably was needed a long time ago. AFAIK, updates

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm using mutt as MUA in an xterm on VT1 and calling up, via urlview, FF on VT2 with a web page from a mail URL. Up to some time recently, Firefox only switched VT the first time I did this, now it does it every time, annoyingly. I would like to make FF stick to a

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:36:44PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It does not happen here. I'm on KDE 3.5.10. I'm using Gnome. I guess that the KDE's feature your are talking about is a duplicate feature with a Firefox one. I don't think Firefox has any focus

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH client at work, I don't want a

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble with portage

2009-01-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Graham Murray wrote: AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk writes: First of all, a tip: If a portage upgrade is available, do emerge portage first. New versions of portage often have new or improved features - in this case portage 2.1.6 includes, among other things, the ability to automatically

[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version

2009-06-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/13/2009 05:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so sorry to bang on it some more. I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the answers but finding now that I don't really understand it. Or am doing the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to know the fonts inside various font packages

2009-06-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/14/2009 12:52 AM, rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How can user learn the exact fonts contained in the various font package offered in portage without actually installing them? Either by visiting the homepage of the package, or by fetching it (emerge --fetchonly) and then examining the

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/14/2009 03:04 AM, walt wrote: Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click go. Yes, if gentoo ever disappears (God forbid) I would probably go back to Ubuntu because the Synaptics front end isn't

[gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/15/2009 03:30 PM, Mick wrote: 2009/6/15 Florian Philippli...@f_philipp.fastmail.net: Mick schrieb: Hi All, Trying to view a web page I produced some yonks ago, which at that the time would utilise the Adobe SVG plugin to render a gantt chart. The header of the file went like this:

[gentoo-user] openoffice-3.1.0: nsplugin USE flag does nothing?

2009-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I enabled the nsplugin USE flag in OOo 3.1.0 and re-emerged. Curiously, nothing changed. There's no plugin listed in Firefox (3.0.11). Am I missing something obvious? I'm on AMD64. OOo has been emerged with following USE flags: bash-completion dbus gtk linguas_en linguas_en_US nsplugin

[gentoo-user] emerge -K complains about -fPIC

2009-06-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I prepared some binary packages (with quickpkg) in order to have a quicker downgrade path just before emerging some beta software. The beta software didn't work as expected so I simply unmerged it and emerged to old ones with emerge -K. This works fine, but produces this warning: * Your

[gentoo-user] Re: Why still no firefox 3.0.11 for amd64

2009-06-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/20/2009 10:04 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, did somebody forget to remove the ~? Yep, you. echo =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.11 /etc/portage/package.keywords ;-)

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dependency ?

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/23/2009 11:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff (3.8.2-r6) today. I got the error messages !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE: +objc) [...] So, why the

[gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/23/2009 05:40 PM, James wrote: [...] So entries in package.keywords should just have the ~ in front of them? No point in using other boolean operations in the package.keywords file? There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you want to do. ~: This version

[gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/23/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrealncat arcor.de writes: There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you want to do. snip Ok got it. Now how do I unmask the version of: app-arch/xz-utils Available versions: ** By

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5? I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing what I was just using: [...] Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in /var/db/pkg.

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever? I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me. As a last attempt at damage control, try the full update anyway. Remove fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS and replace it with

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that has EVER run on this machine. Today I run eix-sync and emerge xorg-x11

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/25/2009 03:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carteradam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; - Radeon driver (module is

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/25/2009 04:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote: What VIDEO_DEVICES setting might one use to get this driver called up? Either ati or radeon and check that it installs Open Source? So you want the radeon/ati driver, the package name is xf86-video-ati, so I guess that means you want ati in

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/25/2009 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I thought emerge xf86-video-ati, then swapping Driver flgrx to Driver radeon in xorg.conf was all that is required?? No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked

[gentoo-user] Re: To be mesa or not to be mesa...

2009-06-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/25/2009 05:51 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, short question: I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2)) with the nvidia drivers. Do I need mesa to be installed (I am heavily using OpenGL with Blender...) You only need mesa if portage tells you so. In

[gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 12:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: As far as the bug report went it just didn't click for me. Disappointing that after something like 10 months no one has fixed the ebuild. The latter ebuilds are fixed. They're still ~arch, but I recommend you use them because the latter driver

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 12:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Trying to upgrade to qt 4.5.2: kde4 wants qt3support for qt-core: x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support) (dependency required by x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kteatime-4.2.4 [installed])

[gentoo-user] Re: mesa build failure

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 01:30 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/28/2009 12:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: As far as the bug report went it just didn't click for me. Disappointing that after something like 10 months no one has fixed the

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 01:32 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:23:38 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/28/2009 12:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Trying to upgrade to qt 4.5.2: kde4 wants qt3support for qt-core: x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support) (dependency required

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 01:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:41:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I got that too, but portage (I'm on 2.1.6.13) has automatically resolved all blocks. Are you using Paludis? If yes, uninstall all packages that are to be upgraded and install them

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 03:35 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 03:05:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/28/2009 01:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:41:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I got that too, but portage (I'm on 2.1.6.13) has automatically resolved all blocks

[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support conflict

2009-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 04:12 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 04:55:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... Thanks, Portage has resolved conflicts, I'm on 4.5.2 now. It seems like qt3support flags deletion doesn't work for me. Now, after upgrading, I have tried to comment out those flags

[gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 08:54 PM, Roger Mason wrote: [...] I followed the info presented at the end of the installation Did you read the Gentoo documentation about upgrading GCC? If not, now's the time :)

[gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 11:06 PM, James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f .ebuild; done (The above command is just one line, in case your mail/news

[gentoo-user] Re: list of emerged programs?

2009-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/28/2009 11:19 PM, Justin wrote: James wrote: All, Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? -j genlop -l qlop -l Or that :P :P :P

[gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2009 08:21 AM, Dale wrote: Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should

[gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2009 08:04 AM, Roy Wright wrote: On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages

[gentoo-user] Re: make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j2

2009-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/02/2009 04:20 PM, David Relson wrote: I've had trouble building dev-util/duma and discovered this morning that -j2 was the culprit. duma's build compiles and runs createconf.c in order to create duma_config.h which is needed by dumapp.cpp. With -j2, the cpp compilation is starting before

[gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/02/2009 06:17 PM, Doug Hunley wrote: I noticed that my 'emerge world' wants to replace python 2.6.2 with python 3.1 (I run ~x86). Nope, it does not :) It only wants to install it alongside 2.6.x, not replace it. Is it safe to do so or will portage (and everything else) freak out?

[gentoo-user] Re: make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j2

2009-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/02/2009 08:37 PM, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:23:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:20:37 -0400, David Relson wrote: I've had trouble building dev-util/duma and discovered this morning that -j2 was the culprit. duma's build compiles and runs createconf.c

[gentoo-user] Re: make.conf MAKEOPTS=-j2

2009-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/2009 03:11 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote Note that by doing so you will be using -j1 for every future version of duma. That means, if the problem gets fixed, you'll still be using -j1. Actually, I put -j1 into my

[gentoo-user] Re: Yahoo Messenger replacement

2009-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/2009 06:19 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi guys, I've recently needed to communicate with some people using Yahoo Messenger. It's not ideal but i'm unable to migrate them to something more open. I've got it working fine on my windows machine at work, but unfortunately I'm unable to get it

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