Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing [TEMP SOLN]

2010-05-16 Thread Roy Wright
On May 16, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Chris Walters wrote: On 5/15/2010 11:06 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Argh. Just have to vent a little. So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check, openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the non-standard packages that includes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-15 Thread Roy Wright
Argh. Just have to vent a little. Bring up a new install on a system whose system disk died and was replaced with an SSD. OS installed no problems. Recovered my RAID5 and LVM JBOD volume (a GIANT THANK YOU to the mdadm and lvm2 folks!). Then first weekly update hits the libpng12 issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: Hi, I've started to

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering

2010-03-16 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Ralph Slooten wrote: Hi all, Has anyone here worked out how to filter out syslog messages using syslog-ng v3? The old syntax doesn't work (well complains bitterly about performance and says to use regex), and no matter what I try I cannot get the new syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Sounds to me as though you haven't set CUPS up right on the machine connected to the printer. You need it to allow other machines on your network to print, and maybe to administer CUPS if you want to move printer administration to another

[gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-08 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, OK, installed KDE 4.4.1 on an older box (BE-2400 4GB ~x86), seems to be working pretty good. But am having trouble trying to figure out the kde way to configure a network (cups on a kubuntu system) printer. From system_settings, Printer Configuration, the Server Settings are all

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-08 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:54 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Roy, without being presumptuous, I would say that using D.E. (Desktop Environment) tools for printing are not the best because of inconsistency in layout and authentication problems. My suggestion is to open up your web browser and use

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: This notebook is nazgul, not because I'm a LOTR fan (which I am) but because it ties in nicely with the BOFH image I've been cultivating for years Thanks for bringing back old memories, it's been almost two decades since I read BOFH. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Roy Wright
Since you already merged it in: # equery depends mysql then unmerge or correct USE flags for dependent apps. To have portage error out instead of merging mysql in the future: # echo dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.mask/I_said_no_mysql HTH, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new; so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Roy Wright
Another thing to try, change compile flag to -J1 (MAKEOPTS=-J1 emerge ...) Last time I built up a system there were a couple of packages that couldn't handle parallel compiles. HTH, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-11 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Yes, I can organize my files to the point where I rarely ever use find. Just because you can't, is not a reason to slow down everybody else's desktop. Is this ignorance or FUD?

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: Hello list, when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs kdelibs compiled with USE=semantic-desktop and cannot be told to not use it. But I do not like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Christian Apeltauer wrote: Hello list, when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote: OK, after reading several articles from the given starting point, I now understand why semantic-desktop wastes so much cpu, memory, and storage (really, if you organize your data

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-24 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: /etc/exports:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:23:11 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi, As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to ~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when it got to xorg-server-1.6.5, it crashed

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary or permanent) the xinerama USE flag. Me or Alan? OP As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you temporarily disable xinerama, then the build

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now emergeing any of them starts with: Error: Unrecognized option:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Spoke too soon...now I'm getting this: ../doltcompile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../ include-DHAVE_ssing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict- aliasing -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CI/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-11 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: So my advice is: pick and branch and stick with your own kind. It's far fewer headaches in the long run. And unstable isn't really unstable, it's untested. There's a difference. Also keep in mind that it's the ebuild that is

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
Unmerged all of x11, then installed xorg-server-1.6.5 and it is working now. One of the issues I hit is that python-3.1.1-r1 can not be installed with the tk use flag due to cyclic dependencies when installing xorg (portage insists on installing python before libX11 so python[tk] fails

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 11:46:50 Roy Wright wrote: One of the issues I hit is that python-3.1.1-r1 can not be installed with the tk use flag due to cyclic dependencies when installing xorg (portage insists on installing python before

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 09 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:31 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Since upgrading to Xorg-x11-7.4-r1 , Xterm Xpdf are very slow to open: Xterm takes c 6 sec to start

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run eselect opengl set nvidia again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember exactly because it went somehow long

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run eselect opengl set nvidia again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old

[gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-08 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that

Re: [gentoo-user] about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:07 AM, hp_sebastian wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How to make eix search an overlay too. The manpage for layman says: You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on http://overlays.gentoo.org by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search

2009-10-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 03 October 2009 20:20:47 Harry Putnam wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries will include overlays

Re: [gentoo-user] Different desktop wallpapers in KDE4?

2009-09-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, I think I saw a statement on this list that it's possible to set a different wallpaper on each desktop in kde-4.3.1, but now I can't find it, and I can't see how to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-29 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 090929 Paul Hartman wrote: What's missing from the 3.x series ? A much longer list of schemas, start root console, search (see above), set window geometry (inside Konsole or when starting it: see my bug list). Starting a root (or any

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

2009-09-26 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 26, 2009, at 3:11 PM, David Juhl wrote: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers? I can't seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot. grep -i dns /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example The short answer is something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Roy Wright
On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is now: [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/ applications] Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wright
emerge --unmerge =x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 The meta package is no longer used. HTH, Roy On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, again, portage's dependencies caculation makes me wonder. This time, emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world tells me quite a few dependencies

[gentoo-user] java lib/ext question

2009-08-24 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm attempting to install the postgis plugin for openjump and it says to copy the driver jar file to {jre}/lib/ext. This does not feel like the correct approach given how the java jdks are installed on gentoo (/ opt/sun-jdk-n.n.n.n). I'd expect any changes within the jdk directory

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-17 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Roy Wright wrote: Went ahead and added the kde-testing overlay. Then moved /etc/ portage/kde and /etc/portage/sets to /tmp. This allowed emerge - uDNav world to not have any stoppers. Using the overlay for the new sets solved the upgrading. The new features

[gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whop! But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( When I installed kde-4.2, I followed the advice of unmasking portage and using sets. Also followed the recommendation to use -kdeprefix. Further I removed kde-3.5 and added a mask on

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-16 Thread Roy Wright
August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 16 August 2009 21:12:30 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:02:50 schrieb Roy Wright: So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be necessary: 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put them in / etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 14, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Mick wrote: * The specific snippet of code: * die Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/ alsa.conf. * The die message: * Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. Have you had such a problem? What's the fix? I have both files

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

2009-08-06 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media? I'm running 3 systems that have media drives for my home theater. What I did was to mount the local volume on /var/media. Then used autofs to mount the nfs shared

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz, placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used ebuild ruby-... digest for

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Oops, sorry for the duplicate post. On Aug 3, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-02 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz, placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used ebuild ruby-... digest for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

2009-08-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:49 AM, ABCD wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the new version. I then downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-23 Thread Roy Wright
kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Summary: Any suggestions for a file merge tool? Details: I'd like to try just actually manually merging bookmarks.html files from different computers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice fails on qt_plugins_3.3rc

2009-07-18 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 18, 2009, at 7:48 PM, James wrote: I have: rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 7 22:50 .keep_x11-libs_qt-3 -rw--- 1 root root0 Dec 30 2008 .qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock -rw--- 1 root root 3.8K Jul 17 08:13 qt_plugins_3.3rc so now I have -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 7 22:50

Re: [gentoo-user] random reboots

2009-07-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 10, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 10 Juli 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: My system reboots at seemingly random times. Usually, this happens during keyboard or mouse input. I have been using kernel 2.6.30-r2. Often this happens when using firefox, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4, dev-python/sip and dependency graph

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote: Hi all, I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now. Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri

2009-07-05 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote: I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created one for libdri.so... I'd be more worried about this than the keysym errors. I have xorg- server-1.6.1.902

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS issues.

2009-07-01 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: Two questions: How do I fix the shutdown sequence to unmount NFS drives before the network is shutdown? How do I tell NFS to simply give-up after X attempts (for other times when the NFS server simply may not be there anymore and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
Turn off colored output. (This option is also passed to portage.) --pretend,-p Do a dry-run. It is recommended to do a dry run first: $ qt-rebuild -p To create a set file: $ qt-rebuild -s -p /etc/portage/sets/qt-rebuild == Copyright Copyright (c) 2009 Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (= 0.7.10

[gentoo-user] finding qt plugins?

2009-06-28 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Use of sed

2009-06-23 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse down a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field separator from / to enable me to search on that character? maybe something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. [snip] What I see on reboot: Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text begins scrolling by and never

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread Roy Wright
On May 31, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: May be, it's not a only Gentoo question, but I want to write and start applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work (as example OOMMF:

Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

2009-05-14 Thread Roy Wright
Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Most KDE4 itself is always responsive, but not the panel. Konqueror, Kontact and such sometimes freeze when I open a new page/mail. In race cases konqueror also freezes while displaying a page, after parts were already rendered. I replaced my media lan's

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-13 Thread Roy Wright
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 If you have openoffice installed, it will need

Re: [gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread Roy Wright
dhk wrote: I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy

[gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get Amarok 2... Personally the change

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-10 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Howdy, I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a functional VLC wouldn't mind posting their USE flags

[gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-09 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a functional VLC wouldn't mind posting their USE flags. TIA, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

2009-04-04 Thread Roy Wright
gigli wrote: I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a while and used their ufw, which was very simple. My needs: Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, mythtv and mysql when

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread Roy Wright
AllenJB wrote: Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. +1 In addition, please keep language clean on this list. +1 Well said.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site

2009-03-20 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site

2009-03-20 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it will work. I think I could create VPN between

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 07 March 2009 09:03:30 Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 07 March 2009 10:12:42 Roy Wright wrote: Yes, no issues with kde 4.2.0. What happened is I'd upgraded to the bad nvidia-drivers-180.35, downgraded to 180.29, then upgraded kde from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. One weird side-effect of the 4.2.1 upgrade is that I lost my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 07 März 2009, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 07 März 2009, Roy Wright wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: which qt version are you using? Wow, that's interesting: qt-3.3.8b-r1 Nothing is masking qt4, and both qt3 and qt4 USE flags are set, but apparently nothing is pulling qt4 in... I was under

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100%. I'm curious if anyone else is seeing something similar? TIA, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. Also check it's not in your module-rebuild list.

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-17 Thread Roy Wright
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Monday 09 February 2009, James wrote: Roy Wright roy at wright.org writes: On my new install using 2.6.28-gentoo-r1, alsa kernel, sound as modules (recommended), [snip...] * enable alsa in the kernel * enable as modules device drivers/sound card support/... [snip...] I

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Under KDE, there's krdc. Supports VNC and you can bookmark connections. I'll second freenx, assuming you have control of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Naga nagatoro at gmail.com writes: In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series kernel or use a live alsa ebuild. Makes sense, but, it's does not work for *26 or *27 kernels: Linux sliver 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #12 SMP Mon Feb 9 13:04:18 EST 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using portage through NFS

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
Chris Lieb wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:58 -0600, Chris Lieb wrote: I don't want to do UnionFS since that requires me to patch the kernel, which is more work than I have the time for. cd /usr/src/linux patch -p1 /path/to/patchfile You must be *really* short of time

[gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I have grub menu of: * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Harry Putnam wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a Windows Installer? *SCNR* Thirty five reboots and several hours Sorry, can't resist

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: I found what I think is the instructions I used before: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing which basically say to emerge debianutils The problem I'm seeing is that make install is including the version

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta but it takes next to no time instead of hours and hasn't build the binary packages without any error messages. What am I missing? --buildpkg only works

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

2008-12-27 Thread Roy Wright
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Gentoo is difficult to install. Also, if it's left un-updated for longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. I guess that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Roy Wright
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused,

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-22 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Excuse me, could you write down your system configuration? Xorg version, Kernel version, Gcc, Nvidia-drivers, Hal version, compiz-fusion version. Basically just a ~x86 system with dual monitors (twinview). royw-gentoo ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask/monolithic # packages

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same

[gentoo-user] preserved lib question

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have some preserved libs that just don't want to go away. I've ran emerge @preserved-rebuild several times to no avail. I think the problem is with portage not recognizing that one of the libraries is symbolically linked to the other. Here they are: !! existing preserved libs:

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-14 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my ~x86, I had to add: ~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11 to

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