Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-24 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I did an emerge -NuD world, it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof (I brought my 46 LCD TV, PlayStation 3, and in total 5 computers and other electronics).

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 07:24 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: I have a problem compiling binutils. Full build log can be found here http://smash-net.org/temp/build_log.txt I tried tha vanilla flag and diabled zlib as suggested via google search, but neither did

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My excellent adventure)

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 02:06 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-08-09 05:11]: Now epdfview is masked for removal in a few weeks. apvlv is the recommended lightweight alternative. After some screwing around and discovering an obscure bug in the apvlv ebuild, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on buildroot/ARM. raf

[gentoo-user] still problems with nvidia-drivers-295.40 and above

2012-06-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Some time ago I wrote about a problem I have with nvidia-drivers causing X to segfault for versions above 295.20 (including the beta 302.x series) on a ASUS GT520, PCI-e board. Now it's becoming a mess to update the system because 295.20 is no longer in-tree. Rather than fiddling with overlays

[gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end of the build. gcc is 4.6.3, I also tried 4.5.3 with same

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/08/2012 09:29 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jun 8, 2012 1:16 PM, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/08/2012 09:29 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jun 8, 2012 1:16 PM, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/05/2012 01:37 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of a ebuild? I want build inkscape, but i has only mobile connection at moment. Can i build a list which i can then later load in a cybercafe? In the Handbook i found only

[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-10 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I switched to 295.20-r1 and everything

[gentoo-user] X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine. But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 08:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 04:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote: It'd be interesting to understand why I'm getting the segfault with the 295.40, but being a closed driver I suppose there is little I can diagnose. Emerge with --ggdb3, enable core dumps (I forget the particular sysctl, sorry), and open up the core

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 04:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: thanks, but I'd rather keep that as a last option because I have no guarantee of success with the 302.07 driver. There are no guarantees in life. Only wasted time, which in this case amounts to 5-8 minutes for copying/editing and emerging.

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the portage tree and every time thereafter. Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more complex route. Instead, put the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: The change was done in the mythtv overlay (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? I understood that overlay gets updated only when

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The MythTV overlay is not serviced by layman. Instead, it includes a script called from /etc/portage/postsync.d/ to update itself after every emerge --sync. Basically, there are two types

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How difficult would the latter be? If the package just moved from

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How difficult would the latter be? If the package just moved from

[gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
After yesterday's sync I found mythtv's overlay not able to build anymore due to missing dependency: media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers is no longer present in the tree. A quick search shows that it has now become virtual/linuxtv-dvb-headers [1]. I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are

Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

2012-02-12 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/12/2012 12:53 AM, Michael Mol wrote: So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the things I'd like it to do: * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive I don't use many DVD but I think it works for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. You need to use cdrecord -atip to get the layer break value and then use cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-12-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/01/2011 09:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry extras) mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: $ mplayer -dumpstream

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/22/2011 10:40 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Here's an alternative: sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//' Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a garbled command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/' So the main question is: why do you use a non-existing

[gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 11:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? The simplest option

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 03:06 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot un-mount 3 is wrong, you can unmount with pmount, exactly the same as with 1. uam is basically a set of udev rules

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 04:54 P, Neil Bothwick wrote: I thought that pcmanfm, the LXDE file manager, had a context menu option to unmount. Me too, and I think that a long time ago I did have it, but now it's not there. Probably I'd better try on the lxde mailing list. thanks, raf

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 08:34 AM, Dale wrote: I agree tho that checking those BIOS setting is a good start. If that fails, boot a CD or something, chroot in, do a emerge -e system. Maybe make some corrections to the kernel then try booting. Oh, I'd rebuild the input drivers to, mouse and

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 09:23 AM, Dale wrote: You could be right that it is a mobo CPU issue. When you are grasping at straws, just grab all you can. Yep, that's why I wrote about it here, I see very good suggestions on this list. Maybe check if there is a BIOS update available? Might be worth a

[gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On 11/15/2011 08:58 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded decoding with mplayer, or is it just a matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 12:24 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 09:55:55 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start- 75.html Also look at: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/247578

[gentoo-user] Re: swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the MythTv screen

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 08:11 AM, Michael Mol wrote: Play with your BIOS settings. Look for things like legacy USB support. Also, double-check that all the relevant USB drivers (UHCI, EHCI, XHCI, HID, etc) are either built-into the kernel, or are loaded as modules. Consider rebuilding your kernel.

[gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the MythTv screen with no error but does not respond to the USB keyboard

[gentoo-user] multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded decoding with mplayer, or is it just a matter of passing the appropriate 'threads=' on the command line? raffaele

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/26/2011 04:45 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On 10/26/11 09:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: camille ~ # mythbackend 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Unable to read configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the parameters that the kernel support?

2011-10-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/19/2011 11:15 AM, Lavender wrote: How can I find out what parametres the kernel supports when it is in bootstrap? It's documented in the kernel source tree: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/14/2011 05:15 PM, czernitko wrote: AFAIK the biggest disadvantage of crossdev-created toolchain, compared to other cross compilation tools, is that without usage of emulator (like qemu-user) it is not possible to compile things that use in their configure scipts checks that need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/14/2011 01:14 PM, czernitko wrote: Hello! I started playing a little bit with cross compilation for ARM architecture. Using crossdev I created a toolchain for arm-none-linux-gnueabi tuple. Now I'd like to emerge some more packages, but perl constantly refuses to emerge and it is needed

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
No, Billk, you aren't mistaken! Ow Mun Heng, in the tightvnc client (version 1.3dev5) hit F8 to get the menu, which has Send CTRL-ALT-DEL among the other options. From the vncviewer man page: You can use F8 to display a pop-up utility menu. Press F8 twice to pass single F8 to the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: Probably not the case, since lspci detects the 8237 chip, but did you enable the audio chipset in the mobo BIOS? Un, no, how do you do that? Since windoz was never installed, I doubt this has been done... It is motherboard-specific, I can only tell you how I do it on my Asus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Holly Bostick wrote: James schreef: ## ALSA portion ## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 All these entries are commented out, and not replicated later in the file. This can't

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: lspci -v reveals: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 I/O ports at e000 Capabilities:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

2005-06-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:25:20 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rc.conf to use xdm and everything works ok, but I have no sound, I tried command-line and X apps, and none has access to the alsa, oss or esound drivers. It's probably pam. Look as /dev/mixer,

Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? raf Red wrote: luis jure wrote: hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first network at home. i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (still with windows

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
$HOME/.xscreensaver In particular, these two lines should do it: chooseRandomImages: True imageDirectory: ... Or run $ xscreensaver-demo despite the name it is an xscreensaver configuration GUI. raf Qv6 wrote: Hello I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a

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