Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Emerge

2006-09-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > 3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for about 6 > months. > > However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently, the > build will crap out and I'll get something like the following. Any idea > why this happens? Are they happening

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pointer in Xorg?

2006-09-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jeff Grant wrote: > Can you change it on the fly? As in, I'm using Gnome - but it's mouse > config doesn't have the boring core pointer as an option - and I like > the boring core pointer. Not for running apps, but any new apps you start will use the change. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.1 profile and use flag changes

2006-09-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Fish wrote: > However, for the next gcc-upgrade cycle, I plan to ask (as a userrep) > that the gcc compilation bugs not be closed until the fixes actually > make it to stable. That way at least the stabilization bug will > continue to reflect just how broken the tree might get if it is pus

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make esearch run agains overlay too

2006-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I make esearch scan my overlay too? The esearch man page > makes no mention of overlay, and none of the options appear to allow > directing esearch to a separate portage. eix is smart enough to do this, and it's nearly a drop-in replacement. Thanks, Donnie s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies

2006-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
don wrote: > I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. > I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. > > However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list > here. > > Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the ve

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.28.8 - How to get DRM support?

2006-09-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: > With these ATI drivers what is the proper way to configure the > kernel? I've tried it with kernel DRI support on and off. Is there > some other setting required to make this work? Try kernel DRM off, kernel AGP as modules. I think ATI finally stopped distributing its own ag

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

2006-09-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It > has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all > kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. > > I'm using the "ati" driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos > d

Re: [gentoo-user] xorgcfg doesn't work: "Couldn't get keyboard"

2006-09-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-o-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-1" to > type FontStruct > X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) > Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) > Serial number of failed request: 817 > Curr

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: > Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red > indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit. I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get rid of it. > > KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log > in and run 'startx' and here are the errors

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage

2006-08-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in portage at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the devs would be all over this like #ff on rice. It has support for Xorg 7.1 finally! Isn't that something we've all been anxiously wait

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3

2006-08-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pupeno wrote: On Tuesday 29 August 2006 05:24, Donnie Berkholz wrote: You may need to modify the ebuild. Try adding something like this near the top: PYTHON_SLOT_VERSION="2.3" That's used by distutils.eclass, which mysql-python inherits. Ouch! Is that the only way ? modifying

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3

2006-08-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I am developing some software that needs to be tested against Python 2.3. So my Gentoo box has both, Python 2.4 and 2.3. Now, I need to have some Python packages available for both (or at least, for 2.3), for example: mysql-python. How do I achieve that ? You may need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Neither klibc nor splashutils will emerge

2006-08-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > Any ideas at all, please? Tried bugs.gentoo.org? If you don't find it there yet, file a new bug. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many X modules pulled in

2006-08-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is > indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly, > doesn't it? If so, whence does that dependency come from (it's obviously > not on the DEPEND or RDEPEND variables)? > > Please help me --

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware player screen resolution

2006-08-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just started using a VM built some time ago. It has just VGA screen resolution and colors (ugh!). Are there video drivers I could put in there (for Win 98 SE) that would give me something like the real estate of my modern screen? Or should I start over looking for a

Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.

2006-08-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Samuel Baldwin wrote: I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
darren kirby wrote: I just realized my Gentoo has no 'at' I searched but couldn't find as google will not consider less than 3 char words and equery only works on installed apps. Web interface to portage didn't reveal it either. Where the heck is at at? I would think it was one of the coreu

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pete Pardoe wrote: > Hi All > > Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is producing the > following error. I have tried putting it in package.keywords with the > following ~x86, ~* and * and none of them worked. Any advice? > > ~~~

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > OK. And about NFS? Is still the best one for file share proposes? What > about CIFS? NFSv3 over TCP is pretty solid, but if you're in a mixed Windows-Linux environment you might want to look into CIFS. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?

2006-08-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postf

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client

2006-08-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. A lot of people use xchat for GUI, it's gtk2-based. KDE has a couple of pretty good ones, too. If you want always-on IRC, the usual answer is to run irssi in a screen session on

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --deep world installs unwanted packages

2006-08-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > I ran that command and they showed up in the list, among other things. > How would I go about fixing that??? If you installed gnome, they both will get pulled in as they're an official part of gnome as distributed by upstream. You may look into package.provided (see the p

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- >> I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. > > Couldn't find anything. Perhaps you've got some pointer ? No, I don't, or I would have given it to you. Instead, I told you where to loo

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I don't want to have an Xserver at all, so it doesn't anyting. It requires Xvfb to build and install correctly, at least up until 2.10. If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem

2006-08-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm just installing some X applications on an headless machine and I'd like to have only the xlib client libs, no server stuff. The problem is: the non-deterministic dependencies to the X libs get resolved badly - it always wants to install the Xserver. Lack o

Re: [gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Steve Dibb wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:45 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: >> >>> A few devs have setup an unofficial Gentoo project, a planet feed of >>> blogs of Gentoo users. The site is available online right now at >>> http://larrythecow.org/ >>> >>> The idea is simple -- w

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Justin R Findlay wrote: > Ideally a fully documented card is what I want. That is why I've been > following the open graphics project. Your best bet right now is to buy something with Intel integrated graphics. Intel's hired X developers to work on a fully open-source driver, and it also contract

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Fish wrote: > I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered > driver works. Pretty well on anything but the newest games, on which it tends to work OK. > ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux > support. This hasn't been true for at lea

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

2006-08-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pete Pardoe wrote: > I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back > but I > now have a problem that has me stumped. You filed a bug for the failure, right? Monolithic X won't be around forever ... > When I do an emerge -puD world > there are a whole slew of packages th

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alexander Skwar wrote: Justin R Findlay schrieb: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a profile!! Right, but I still don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables

2006-08-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: > I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this > scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo > place of preference to launch my scipt after the gentoo runscipt > '/etc/init.d/iptables' is finished running? > > Is their a way t

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 060801 John J. Foster wrote: In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? 'echo $DISPLAY' returns ':0' from Konsole,

Re: [gentoo-user] Foomatic should be added to the Gentoo Printing doc

2006-07-31 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: I followed this guide to set up printing: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml but it didn't start working until I emerged foomatic. The guide doesn't mention foomatic whatsoever. My printer is a Brother HL-2040 laser. The latest cups ebuild will force you to install

Re: [gentoo-user] New Hardware...

2006-07-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jerry McBride wrote: Howdy, I'm gearing up for a new hardware purchase and I find that I need a little help figuring out "what is" and "what isn't" linux compatible. The days of pci, agp video and socket A hardware are slowly coming to a close and I'm itching to try something new. Does any

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Any reason you can't use gcc's Fortran compiler? I would be happy to, I didn't know there was one. Is there any docs that explain how to the gcc fortran complier? USE=fortran emerge gcc If you're on gcc4, it's gfortran and is Fortran95 (and older) compatible. If

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-07-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Hello all, I am trying to install Fortran for a school project my wife is working on. Any reason you can't use gcc's Fortran compiler? Are there any installation instructions better than the following ones?: 1) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117452 -

Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers

2006-07-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Stefán István wrote: > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 USE="bitmap-fonts dlloader ipv6 > nls opengl pam truetype-fonts type1-fonts xv -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -dmx > -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -minimal -mmx* -nocxx -sdk -sse* -static > -xp

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts <-> FireFox <-> X11 ?

2006-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: > Did you emerge the font set that was in the xorg-x11-7 upgrade HOWTO? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg > > # emerge -DuNav font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi > font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \ > font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-type1 \ > fon

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: > I wanted to know if I leave the kernel and ati-driver package alone > but upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0 will it work? Does xorg-x11-7+ force any > specific kernel requirement? With X.Org 7.0, you will need to install an ati-drivers package that supports modular X. I did a quick gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-18 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Cliff Wells wrote: > I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've > ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on > RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that > I'm aware of, but I'd hardly call it "sucking". I'm too

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Great, I knew there must be a solution for this issue. Thanks for > interpreting the man page for me ;) Perhaps it could be more clear what > "site-specific overrides" means but now I know. Thanks again. Could you suggest wording that would make it more clear to you? There's

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X upgrade

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so > (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 > > That's where it stops. I've ssh-ed in and tried to kill X (which is >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg v7.0 trying to load modules that I'm not

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Trenton Adams wrote: > # grep -e EE -e WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log >(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module v4l > (EE) Failed to load module "v4l" (module does not exist, 0) > (II) Load

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > My last email didn't seem to make it to the list, I hope this isn't a > duplicate. > > I've converted 4 machines to modular X, and one is having an issue. > My laptop (Thinkpad T43) is getting the following error when I start X: > > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. > > I am testing various settings in the xorg.conf file. Some settings change > the performance of X, > others break X all together. > > Some setting not only break X but also corrupt all of the command line

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jacob Klitmøller wrote: > However when I try to emerge gnome I get > > [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) > > or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc > /portage/package.mask is of no use since both is required. I have also >

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile question

2006-07-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Tony, > Some ebuilds filter out MAKEOPTS="-jX" because the makefile(?) is not > written correctly to compile with more than one concurrent compile > process. According to the OOo ebuild, -jX is not filtered, so that is > not the case. Also, you may have checked the CPU usage w

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Steve Brenneis wrote: > Actually, none of that was my problem. The problem was solved by > commenting out the ModulePath statement in xorg.conf. Now I just have to > figure out what may have gotten broken by doing that. I think I'll just > unmerge everything (in Xorg) and start over. Nothing shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

2006-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo wrote: > After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the > following error from startx: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) wit

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7 emerge fails on libXt dependencies unmet

2006-07-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > Sorry this is a little long but it's mostly cut and paste stuff. > Using the instructions here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg > > I am at the point of emerging xorg-x11-7. It fails pretty much > immediately with this message: > > checking for pkg-conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading X

2006-07-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pablo Antonio wrote: > Hello, > I don't know if this was asked previously or someone had the > same problem I'm about to talk about. If that is the case, please > redirect me to some place where I can find the answer. > > I tried to upgrade to modular X religiously following the "Migrating t

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning

2006-07-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12. > It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but > im not sure. Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me > to appropriate reading so I can protect myself. h

Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0

2006-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Hi List! > > I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable. > However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I > haven't found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm > turning to the list now. > > > My main problem is th

Re: [gentoo-user] : virtual Windows solution...

2006-07-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Peter Ruskin wrote: > The free vmware-player will unfortunately refuse to work if you have > more than one processor. > > Win4LinPro works pretty well (win4lin.com), is cheaper than vmware, > but nonetheless pricy. > > Parallels Workstation (parallels.com) is much more reasonably > priced, but

Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > What I meant is "secure" ftp. > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. > > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hardened: setuid

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: > Donnie Berkholz gentoo.org> writes: >> Have you tried checking which (if any) packages own these files? Have >> you built anything yourself outside of portage that could have installed >> them? > > Well I used --tree and it revealed nothing. --tree?

Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I notice that some of the fonts you mention are keyword masked (at > least on x86). For example font-bitstream-* (except for -vera) and > font-ibm-type1. Are these fonts less tested? Would you recommend > unmasking all of them? Would you want me to file a bug asking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Donnie Berkholz: >> darren kirby wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I just completed upgrading to Xorg 7.0 and it went fine, however, I seem >>> to be missing "Courier 10 pitch" which was the only monospaced font t

Re: [gentoo-user] Update system

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Juliano Morais Barbosa wrote: > skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11 > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l > d: > > cannot find -lX11 > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Hm, I'd bet it's that problem that comes up with r

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
James wrote: > Hello > > I was performing a routine security audit using: > > find / -user root -perm -4000 -print > > which found these peculiar files: > > /usr/athena/bin/su > /usr/athena/bin/otp > /usr/athena/bin/rcp > /usr/athena/bin/rsh > /usr/athena/bin/rlogin > > > upon greater inspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
darren kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > I just completed upgrading to Xorg 7.0 and it went fine, however, I seem to > be > missing "Courier 10 pitch" which was the only monospaced font that looks > decent on my screen. When I started X all my monospaced fonts were set as > courier which looks ter

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/fonts/TTF doesn't exist

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/default, removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/encodings, removing from > list! > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local, removing from list! You probably don't have fonts sitting in

Re: [gentoo-user] XKB docs

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Peter Ruskin wrote: > You aren't the only one. While trying to fix my perceived problem I > searched through the documentation provided by xorg-docs. All I > got was a headache. I wish there were a user-friendly doc that > explained all those config options like XkbOptions, XkbLayout, etc. H

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/fonts/TTF doesn't exist

2006-07-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Fish wrote: > Just make sure that every directory produced by this command has a > FontPath entry: > find /usr/share/fonts/* -type d I wouldn't worry too much about this anyhow, only really old apps use FontPath entries. Most new ones use fontconfig, which searches /usr/share/fonts/ recurs

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Cláudio Henrique wrote: > hi, there, > I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line in > xorg.conf telling it to use "us_intl" as my kbd layout, but it seems > to be ignoring it. > as a consequence, I have to execute "setxkbmap us_intl" every time I > enter Gnome. I also tried ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg login rights

2006-07-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > Other than the status of the Xorg the two machines are pretty much set > up identical. Could someone please explain why this message is now > coming up in chkrootkit and if there is something I need to change in > my settings? In modular X, we've enhanced the xdm init script to run

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John Blinka wrote: > Symbol fbCloseScreen from module > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! See how all your nvidia driver ends with .o instead of .so? That means you didn't build the drivers with USE=dlloader (which is now set by default). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: > Hi there! > > I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this > computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit > older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is > supported by new versions). So my question is where c

Re: [gentoo-user] "nvidia-drivers" ebuild?

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alan E. Davis wrote: > I haven't noticed this ebuild before. I am seeing a new ebuild in > > /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers > > Can someone explain this? I can only hope this is the end of a long > and troubling issue with xorg and nvidia-kernel. I fear not, > however: (I am r

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I ensure all fontpaths are loaded?

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Walter Dnes wrote: > The subject says it all. As part of the Xorg7 update I emerged some > font groups. How do I find all the directories and include them > xorg.conf? ls /usr/share/fonts/ -- all Gentoo font packages install there. Add each dir to xorg.conf as another FontPath directive. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Lord Sauron wrote: > My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish > things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. > This NEVER happened in Debian. Yeah, emerge should probably start caching this info for faster searches. emerge overall though got a pre

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from X to a VT

2006-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Statux wrote: > I don't know if this has been asked yet/recently, but I've noticed that > I cannot use the ctrl+alt+F? sequence to pop out of X since my upgrade > to xorg 7.0. I'm assuming that ctrl+alt+backspace won't kill the server > either. This usually means your XKB is broken. First, make s

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

2006-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
fire-eyes wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in getting my ATI X300 (r300 or r370, conflicting info out > there), which is a PCIe card, working with DRI with open source drivers. I am > using xorg-x11-7.1 . > > Any ideas? I am specifically looking for ways of doing this not including > messing w

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 --> xorg-7.0 --> 6.8 --> 7.0 impossible?

2006-07-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > Would 'emerge -eK world' be OK so I don't have to recompile? As long as you created the packages before downgrading to monolithic (6.x). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 --> xorg-7.0 --> 6.8 --> 7.0 impossible?

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > I had some trouble upgrading to xorg-x11-7.0 due to a mouse issue so I > downgraded back to xorg-x11-6.8 via the -K emerge option. Now I'm > trying to get back to 7.0 to test the fix and I can't seem to do it. > After unmerging 6.8, 7.0 emerges just fine without or without the -K >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-xcursors in xfce4

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > It looks like modular xorg installs gentoo-xcursors by default. How > can I give them a try in xfce4? To do it on the system level, create /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/ and drop an index.theme file in there: $ cat /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the > errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried > compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and > 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server does not build on amd64

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > compiling xorg-server fails on my amd64 complaining about something > not defined in a glxXXX header file. VIDEO_CARDS is set to nvidia and > nv. > > Anybody had similar problems? Try updating your emul-xlibs package to 7.0. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon > unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. > Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it > that way. Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces

2006-07-06 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Molle Bestefich wrote: > Unfortunately, the spurious xorg-x11-6.9 package just shows at the top > of the tree: > Calculating world dependencies... done! > [blocks B ] >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking > sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14) > [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking >

Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Fish wrote: > Just want to give a big public "Thank You" to spyderous for hanging > out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the > modular-X upgrade. I've been trying to do the same on the forums, for those of you around there. Hope it's made this somewhat difficu

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > On 05/07/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If there are apps you use that you need stabilized, please file a bug >> requesting this. We haven't stabilized everything because we're trying >> to get an idea of what people actually us

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications > (e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged the > monolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta. So, I > thought of trying emerging them individually. However, they seem to > be

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-05 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John J. Foster wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> John J. Foster wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: >>>> Warning: Cannot convert string >>>> "-b&h-lucida-me

Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!

2006-07-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John J. Foster wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: >> OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error: >> >> Warning: Cannot convert string >> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type >> FontStruct >> >> followed by abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg modules problem

2006-07-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I've gone through the big Xorg update, copied back my old > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, changed the rgb path in line with a previous post > because it gave me an error and now it fails like so: > == > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module doe

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > To get oprofile going, build the kernel module (it's included in the > main kernel, just enable it -- CONFIG_PROFILING in Instrumentation), run > `make vmlinux` in /usr/src/linux, emerge oprofile, then run this little > script like this: > ./oprof

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Dale wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # eselect set opengl nvidia >> !!! Error: Can't load module set >> exiting. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Bah, I just gave you the command in the wrong order. `eselect opengl set nvidia` was the right one. Need to tell it which module, before the action to use from th

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Dale wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: >> Do you have a dri section in xorg.conf? Something like: >> >> Section "dri" >>Group "graphics" >>Mode 0660 >> EndSection >> >> -Richard > Added that and now I get a error in my screen saver thingy. It goes > something like this: > >> The speci

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org is b0rked - BadIdChoice

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Bruno Lustosa wrote: > I *just* found out what was wrong. > The bozo package was libX11. To merge the old version I had to merge > the old xproto though. > This was very very hard to find out. Perhaps someone ought to add > libX11 to that mask list so that people who want to stick to xorg-7.0 > doe

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Dale wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # glxinfo | grep direct >> direct rendering: No >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > Any ideas? Thanks for the help. Try this: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org is b0rked - BadIdChoice

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Bruno Lustosa wrote: > The program 'gnome-panel' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'. Try rebuilding renderproto, libXrender, xorg-server, and whatever apps die. Thanks, Donnie signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Dale wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: >> Did you try "eselect opengl nvidia"? >> >> -Richard > > Regretfully, yes. Still no go. I even made sure it was actually using > it too. I selected a NON-OpenGL screen saver and now the CPU doesn't go > nuts. Do you have direct rendering working? `glxinfo |

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alexander Skwar wrote: > confcache is gone from portage. No, it's not. It's in package.mask. I guess you need a new search tool. =) Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: >>> glxclient.h:257: error: syntax error before "GLXContextTag" >>> glxclient.h:257: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union >>> glxclient.h:401: error: syntax error before '}' token >>> clientattrib.c: In function `do_enable_disable': >> Is there something shortl

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Graham Murray wrote: > Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal > of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages > which it caused to be installed. Heard of emerge --depclean? Use it with care, though. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: O

Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout

2006-07-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 23:33, domenica 2 luglio 2006, Donnie Berkholz ha scritto: > >>> So the lv3 stuff works something like this: >>> >>> alt+; then letter gives right accented letter >>> alt+[ then letter gives umlauted letter >>> alt+] th

Re: [gentoo-user] modular xorg + hardened gcc = no go?

2006-07-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Grant wrote: > I'm upgrading to the modular xorg and I've run into: > > * xorg-server does not work with hardened gcc specs. Switch to vanilla > gcc specs to emerge xorg-server. > !!! ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 failed. > > I have USE="hardened" in make.conf but I'm remerging gcc with >

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: >> On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff. >>> >>> You can grab a list of all modula

Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout

2006-07-02 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 21:26, domenica 2 luglio 2006, Donnie Berkholz ha scritto: >>> Luigi Pinna wrote: >>>> Option "XkbRules" "xorg" >>>> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >>>> Option "Xkb

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