Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 22:41:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2011 22:02:03 pk did opine thusly: Devs get a certain amount of leeway and tolerance from users because of what they do as volunteers. But there's a line somewhere and in my view arbitrarily deciding to obsolete

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 15:41:13 Dale wrote: update your fucking drivers. Seriously, no userspace app does something like this. The driver is broken, KDE touches the broken part and BOOM. Don't blame KDE, blame nvidia. And update the driver. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 04 July 2011 11:48:51 Dale wrote: Hi, Has anyone else had any hard lock ups in KDE? I'm on kde 4.6.4 whichwas released about a month ago. For those not in the know, I'm on amd64and use kde-meta so it is has the kitchen sink installed here. What mine does: It sort of varies but

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 24 June 2011 11:43:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Adam. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: After upgrading xcb, ati driver and rebooting xorg can't read mouse and keyboard anymore. No

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 25 June 2011 17:36:17 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Good evening, Volker! On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 24 June 2011 11:43:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Adam. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:34:09 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com [11-06-21 01:24]: On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

2011-06-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote: So, my question is this. What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys from working? This is on my new amd64 machine. everything that kills the interrupt handler. everything that prevents the kernel from acting on interrupts it received

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 June 2011 08:42:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-13 07:28]: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:57:11 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: john wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:50:18 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

2011-06-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 June 2011 21:01:58 Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! So I did the big KDE 4.6.3 - 4.6.4 upgrade. Stupid me, I did not want to do this yet, but I missed the -a switch to a @system update, and that pulled in kdelibs-4.6.4. After this, konqueror no longer worked, so I did the full

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 June 2011 15:30:12 john wrote: Gents Whenever I insert external USB device my machine locks and I have to do a hard reset (sys req does not even work). I have tried this in a graphical environment and without. Machine boots up fine with USB keyboard and mouse but will not boot

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 June 2011 15:50:18 Dale wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi John, if sysreq does not work after inserting the usbstick then the kernel stops working completly (the sysreq-code of the kernel is not entered), which seems to be that something happening on very low level

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 June 2011 22:30:30 john wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:20:48 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-12 20:52]: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:45:38 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-12 16:36]:

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 23:56:32 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Read the FAQ and Info posted. From the website: If this test fails: it means that the DNS resolver you are using, requires IPv4 to reach the DNS authoritative servers of your favoriate web sites. In the near

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Modules

2011-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 09 June 2011 11:52:42 Ignas Anikevicius wrote: Hello list, I was wondering if it is possible to have a tool with which it would be possible to have external modules installed for _all_ kernel versions in my computer. Now I am using 2.6.38 kernel, but would like to try 2.6.39 and

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:27:45 Dale wrote: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok (0.726s) verwende ipv4 Test mit Dual Stack und grosse Pakete

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 13:59:36 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:27:45 Dale wrote: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06

2011-06-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 05 June 2011 08:01:27 Philip Webb wrote: I installed the latest stable Nvidia driver 270.41.06 X refuses to start with the message API mismatch: the client has the version 270.41.06, but this kernel module has the version 260.19.36. Please make sure that this kernel module

Re: [gentoo-user] Default applications

2011-06-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 05 June 2011 20:54:01 Ignas Anikevicius wrote: Hello list, I am very sorry if it is just a basic question but I failed to get google to help me. Could someone point me how to set up default applications, so automagical applications like skype, firefox and similar would understand

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4 device detection

2011-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 14:10:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011 01:43:54 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote: lördagen den 28 maj 2011 00:54:42 skrev Neil Bothwick: That fails on the broken box with Failed to execute program /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Yepp, thats the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC

2011-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 13:54:27 CJoeB wrote: Hi all. Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install, there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for this, but haven't found

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 11:59:52 kashani wrote: On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 15:46:49 Indi wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:38:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2011 11:59:52 kashani wrote: On 6/4/2011 11:43 AM, Indi wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:11:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 04 June 2011 23:53:50 Mick wrote: ... as mud! This reply of yours (unlike your previous) is shown as a new thread in Knode, not as a threaded reply to Dale's message. :@ PS. I'm responding using Knode and news.gmane.org as an NNTP server, to see what difference this may

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs

2011-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, Stéphane Guedon did opine thusly: anyone use autofs to manage mounting of nfs on a laptop ? Is this mounting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 June 2011 15:52:25 David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: There is a simple rule in computing: NEVER remove user created data That is utter rubbish. Obsolete data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

2011-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 June 2011 22:50:28 Mick wrote: Agreed. I do wish we'd get something open and reasonably well coded to replace flash, I do hope that html5 will do away with it altogether. you can easily block flash. You won't be able to block all that moving add crap in html5. Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

2011-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 June 2011 19:49:40 Indi wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:50:02AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 03 June 2011 22:50:28 Mick wrote: Agreed. I do wish we'd get something open and reasonably well coded to replace flash, I do hope that html5

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 02 June 2011 10:49:44 András Csányi wrote: what is hard about a killall -9 chrome?

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 02 June 2011 11:44:26 András Csányi wrote: On 2 June 2011 11:32, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2011 10:49:44 András Csányi wrote: what is hard about a killall -9 chrome? Nothing. But as far I remember the process called

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 02 June 2011 09:23:47 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world but this is very new for me! I have this fantastic browser called Chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:53:32 David W Noon wrote: On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: On Wednesday 01 June 2011 15:57:58 David W Noon wrote: [snip] I called it an annoyance. Having to clean

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 02 June 2011 21:28:48 David W Noon wrote: On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:26:44 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Now, nearly everybody modifies /etc/updatedb.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 00:26:45 Stroller wrote: On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... Right clicking on Audio Disc gives an eject menu point. YUCK!!! If I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just want my drive's eject button to work. Your Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 June 2011 11:13:48 Adam Carter wrote: On 2 Jun 2011, at 15:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: What exactly is your problem with me? You really have to ask? If you think I'm a juvenile wanker, a jerk or someone in possession of a miniscule penis, then come right out and say

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 15:57:58 David W Noon wrote: On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:20:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:26:43 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I'll trim my earlier quote down to the salient statement.

Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 14:25:50 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In /etc/portage/package.use I have # Need these or for some games gnome-extra/gnome-games clutter opengl But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Cfg-update has such a logic. It looks for user changes, If there are decisions to make at all and previous decisions. Ihatethespellcheckerofmyphone. Am 31.05.2011 08:49 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:08 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] What has Sabayon to do with Gentoo?

2011-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, all. Sabayon Linux is said to be derived from Gentoo. Yet, reading reviews of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see any similarity between G and S; S is a binary distribution, doesn't have portage, and doesn't look like

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 30 May 2011 17:06:01 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice good switch where you can tag the vlans? Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 28 May 2011 13:10:09 Tanstaafl wrote: After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my own question... I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become one)...

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 localization

2011-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote: Maxim Vorontsov writes: 27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а): Maxim Vorontsov writes: No, for me all works fine. Probably another problem that only I have. BTW, German language is of course set in

Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance

2011-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 26 May 2011 00:40:21 Alex Schuster wrote: Paul Hartman writes: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I can't remember the last time my swap was used at all. I have 12G of RAM, but in my prior system with 8G it was the same. Only in a rare

Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance

2011-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote: So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But the average transfer rate is 550K/s.

Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance

2011-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 10:31:19 Paul Hartman wrote: When I move the swap to a slow SD card instead (2MB/sec transfer rate), even in that slow device, swapoff on the eMMC swap partition with ~500M in-use takes about 2 or 3 minutes at most with the data being swapped slowly into the SD card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 08:46:48 Indi wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:31:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote No, I think you need to get real. It's 2011, what did you expect? Here's what I don't expect. I run a tight

Re: [gentoo-user] Recently reduced video/render performance

2011-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 16:59:13 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! Since updating to mplayer and KDE to current stable (media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20101114 and kde-4.6), I notice two performance regressions: 1. The system can no longer handle videos with VGA resolution or higher at 25

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two binaries on two different system

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; On the old 66GB disk; # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v winpartition.gz Then after swapping

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:40:30 Mick wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; On the old 66GB disk; # dd if=/dev/sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 08:27:42 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/10/2011 02:36:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys-process/atop shows current CPU freqency I use it to check

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 16:34:53 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/10/2011 02:44:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 08:27:42 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/10/2011 02:36:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys-process/atop shows current CPU freqency I use it to check the effect of sys-power/powernowd why are you using powernowd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 07 May 2011 08:51:51 Dale wrote: Hi, It seems KDE 4.6.3 has hit the tree. Ran into a little problem tho. Here is the problem: Emerging (1 of 178) kde-base/kgamma-4.6.3 * kdegraphics-4.6.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Package:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 07 May 2011 09:36:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yeah, skipfirst did not work on all on this kde update *mad* had to edit kgamma ebuild, to recreate the manifest for all kdeedu packages and to set the -bittorrent flag for kget So the manifest is bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 07 May 2011 11:54:45 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 07 May 2011 09:36:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: me. Then again, what do I know. Care to elaborate on how you fixed this? Maybe a cat /root/.bash_history would shed some light. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 07 May 2011 16:36:14 Richard Cox wrote: On 05/07/2011 01:59 PM, billyd wrote: On Saturday, May 07, 2011 11:54:45 AM Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 07 May 2011 09:36:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: me. Then again, what do I know. Care

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 19:53:21 Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to please let this nfs mount work just this one last time and I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL or UDEV...

2011-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 01 May 2011 13:43:18 Carlos Sura wrote: Hello, I just have one question, reciently I read in a forum that HAL might be deprecated on Gentoo, so, I started using UDEV: hal and udev are unrelated. USE= -hal udev But, then I have this problem, updating xorg-server won't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 01 May 2011 15:21:04 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 30 April 2011 19:53:21 Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 14:57:27 Albert Hopkins wrote: Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D dead man walking :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 21:56:19 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.04.2011 21:12, schrieb Thanasis: on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D ...all except spam ... Seems like Gentoo Infra reacts a tad faster

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 22:18:12 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.04.2011 22:09, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Saturday 30 April 2011 21:56:19 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.04.2011 21:12, schrieb Thanasis: on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: Perhaps a bit too public

Re: [gentoo-user] Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

2011-04-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 13:03:59 walt wrote: There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). The major problem is with libstartup-notification, which relies on a function defined in xcb-util-0.3.6 and no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update [correction]

2011-04-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 13:46:01 walt wrote: On 04/26/2011 01:03 PM, walt wrote: There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). Oops, my bad. x11-libs/xcb-util has just been split into several packages with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update [correction]

2011-04-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 14:26:23 walt wrote: On 04/27/2011 12:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 26 April 2011 13:46:01 walt wrote: On 04/26/2011 01:03 PM, walt wrote: There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 24 April 2011 01:07:57 luis jure wrote: i've been trying to install a recent version of media-sound/lilypond (music typesetting software) for some time, but it always fails with this message: /usr/lib64/libz.so: invalid ELF header Could not find the zlib library which is needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!

2011-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 23 April 2011 22:21:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Saturday 23 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: OK. I managed to get the problem fixed, basically by trying everything, though I don't really understand what I did. This was my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:14:14 Gregory Fontenele wrote: want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe switch it to just a shift key? And I really *do* like the idea of

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 20:46:40 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis). For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;) Is there any way to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg crashes

2011-04-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 09:58:39 Mike Bean wrote: Not sure what's going on, hopefully it's a configuration mistake of some kind. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it's intermittent. My xlog is at http://pastebin.com/9jsJE8mw Not really sure how to debug it, all advice is appreciated well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 17:00:41 Albert Hopkins wrote: .. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: good thing that apic has nothing to do with memory at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 08:09:04 walt wrote: I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe-flash becomes quite slow.

2011-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 22:35:39 Einux wrote: Adobe-flash becomes quite slow in my laptop after I updated world(or maybe I reconfigured kernel options) several days ago. I've made a lot of modifications, so I'm not sure exactly which action leads to the malfunction of adobe-flash. adobe flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 29 March 2011 11:55:59 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Monday 28 of March 2011 22:17:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: it is just he use flag 'spell'. kdelibs need it. Maybe more packages. Just turn it on globally, if it isn't enabled already. Now is working after adding globally flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:02:17 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: Hello, what I need to install or set to enable spellchecker in KDE (in kwrite, kate, kile, kmail)? I set LINGUAS=en and I install enchant, aspell, aspell-en, but this didn't work in these applications, so what to do elese to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:38:51 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Monday 28 of March 2011 20:22:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: systemsettings 'local' or 'regional' or whatever it is called in your language. 'Regionales' in german. Spell check enable it. Thank you, I did make

Re: [gentoo-user] Spellchecker in KDE

2011-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 22:10:30 Andrzej Styczeń wrote: On Monday 28 of March 2011 21:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you do have turned on the spell use flag? Which and where ? Maybe I missed it ? Thank you in advance. it is just he use flag 'spell'. kdelibs need it. Maybe more packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent modification time in the future

2011-03-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 01:14:05 Alexey Mishustin wrote: Hello, I performed the system update today (emerge -uND @world), and now I get errors One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf has a modification time in the future! at boot. If I do touch /tmp/tmp.file find /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent modification time in the future

2011-03-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 01:41:39 Alexey Mishustin wrote: 28 марта 2011 г., 1:22:27, Volker Armin Hemmann пишет: On Monday 28 March 2011 01:14:05 Alexey Mishustin wrote: Hello, I performed the system update today (emerge -uND @world), and now I get errors One of the files in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 25 March 2011 07:51:13 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 22:07:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: And if you don't care about

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 15:38:02 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:50:14 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:27:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: But considering that the thread is all about what is the best filesystem?, that too is to be expected. The very title belies a lack of understanding - the best filesystem for

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. Knowing nothing about barriers I tried to find some info and came accross

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 21 March 2011 20:32:22 Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 15 March 2011 15:26:44 James wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. H, I've been contemplating btrfs on some new installs with

Re: [gentoo-user] terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:37:46 Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. I just saw on the mythtv list about the sector size problem these drives have where they have poor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 22:38:02 James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: since I changed that f*er for a 880GA-UD3H OK, how's the 7.1 audio output? Is it analog or digital audio output that you have set up and used. Do you like it? james I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 22:38:02 James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: since I changed that f*er for a 880GA-UD3H OK, how's the 7.1 audio output? Is it analog or digital audio output that you have set up and used. Do you like it? james I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:21:46 james wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102902 OK usb3 will work 3x charge won't. All those nifty tools won't work. The bios fan control is ok - could be better

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote: On 1/3/2011, at 7:12pm, Michael Orlitzky wrote: ... Combine with GNU Screen to achieve what you want. Not screen. He's never used screen before, therefore he has no reason not to use tmux. $ eix -I tmux [I] app-misc/tmux

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: mobo and Ati video

2011-03-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 15:23:38 James wrote: Hello, I was not certain that this posting is OT, so I labeled it that way, to keep everyone happy by default. I've been scrounging newegg to build a fast (AMD_ATI) workstation that is also cost effect (much thanks to Dale). I'm a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 25 February 2011 18:24:50 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: let memtest86 run - for 12h. increase ram voltage - a bit. Like 0.01V. get a different psu. 12 hours? you are right. 24h is better.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:14:57 Roger Cahn wrote: Thank you Volker for your answer. dmesg and kernel config would be much more helpfull. dmesg | grep cdrom and grep sr0 didn't give any answer complete dmesg would be nice nonetheless. * SCSI CDROM support [*] Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 16:55:26 Roger Cahn wrote: complete dmesg would be nice nonetheless. But in dmesg there are 1106 lines! Would you like I send all or only a part of them? * SCSI CDROM support [*] Enable vendor-specificextensions(forSCSICDROM)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:45:53 Roger Cahn wrote: and dmesg says what? Because threre are many lines (1106) you can get it at this adress: http://dl.free.fr/eaWeJr0WB I hope it will work! 497 lines. Could you please: increase the buffer and turn off usb debugging?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 26 February 2011 13:03:00 Roger Cahn wrote: Hi, Since I have installed kernel amd64 I have nomore cdrom and sr0 in /dev Here is my emerge --info: which is useless. dmesg and kernel config would be much more helpfull. Especially the scsi part of kernel config. Stuff like cdrom

Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 25 February 2011 18:24:50 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: let memtest86 run - for 12h. increase ram voltage - a bit. Like 0.01V. get a different psu. 12 hours? you are right. 24h is better.

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