Re: [gentoo-user] direct rendering only works with root???

2006-07-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 16:51 -0700, Ow Mun Heng a écrit : On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 01:43 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:44 -0400, John J. Foster a écrit : Check your xorg.conf for the following: Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection but

[gentoo-user] amd64-hardened breaks upon glibc emerge

2006-07-07 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi everyone! I've been trying to install hardened-amd64 non-multilib Gentoo on my new box, but I keep hitting bug #122274 (comment #2) or something similar. I fetch the latest stage3 and portage snapshot, chroot into this environment, 'emerge --sync', 'emerge portage', 'emerge -C pam-shadow',

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: For example: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-~x86 emerge -Dvp world will show you every ~x86 package you have installed, and what the stable version is. Doing that shows nothing for me. But renaming the package.keywords file shows about a hundred lines of downgrades (mostly KDE).

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peter Ruskin wrote: keycode 35 = bracketright braceright rightarrow emdash Ah, emdash! Thanks — now I can finally type it directly. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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[gentoo-user] OT: KDE schema setting

2006-07-07 Thread James
Hello, How does one make the default color (settings --schema) in a KDE terminal default to 'white on black' instead of 'linux colors'? I need to set this behavior so 'white on black' so I do not have to manually configure the schema each time I fire up a new konsole session. Once I manually

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: KDE schema setting

2006-07-07 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, 7 July 2006 23:26, James wrote: Hello, How does one make the default color (settings --schema) in a KDE terminal default to 'white on black' instead of 'linux colors'? I need to set this behavior so 'white on black' so I do not have to manually configure the schema each time I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: KDE schema setting

2006-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:56:33 + (UTC), James wrote: How does one make the default color (settings --schema) in a KDE terminal default to 'white on black' instead of 'linux colors'? I need to set this behavior so 'white on black' so I do not have to manually configure the schema each

Re: [gentoo-user] linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-07 Thread Mike Markowski
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 20:09 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward What more needs doing? Search through either gentoo-wiki or gentoo.org. IIRC there are step by step instructions on doing this. Great, thanks. For anyone else looking, I

[gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ?

2006-07-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, my DVD-burner is able to read/write DVDRAMs. On the Gentoo-Wiki I found some description how to use pktsetup to write to CD+/-RW. But this seems not to work for DVDRAM. I would be very happy for any hint for the correct handling of DVDRAMs. I am using Linux Kernel 2.6.17.3 (vanilla

[gentoo-user] portal package?

2006-07-07 Thread Mark
Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation on a web portal package that runs on Gentoo (x86)/Apache/PHP/MySQL. The idea is to be able to provide outside companies a secure logon that when they log in, files they need to download are waiting for them in their portal. I'm trying to find it as turn-key

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-07 Thread A. R.
So, I assume that eth1 would be replaced by wlan0 in the commands above, correct? Yes, that is true. Therefore if you create a bash script with those commands it would look like the following (I understand that you do not use encryption, so I omitted the key setting) #!/bin/bash

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

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
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 option. Trying

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: KDE schema setting

2006-07-07 Thread James
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck dystopianray at gmail.com writes: How does one make the default color (settings --schema) in a KDE terminal default to 'white on black' instead of 'linux colors'? Select the schema you want to use and then go to 'Settings - Save as Default' and it'll become the

Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ?

2006-07-07 Thread Graham Murray
Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would be very happy for any hint for the correct handling of DVDRAMs. I am using Linux Kernel 2.6.17.3 (vanilla source). Just use DVDRAM as though it is a removable hard disk. With the DVDRAM in the drive, you can format it with mkfs, mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-07 Thread Devon Miller
An option for ports that don't need to be open constantly (like 80 443) is to use net-misc/knockd.Portknocking allows a port to be opened on demand in response to a series of attempted port opens.There's a wiki page on it here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Port_Knocking.Note, if he is on the

[gentoo-user] Re: linux router setup - howto?

2006-07-07 Thread James
Mike Markowski mm at UDel.Edu writes: Can anyone point me to a howto or advice for the following? On my gentoo box I have: I'd like to use this box as a router so that any wireless traffic through the WAP is routed appropriately between ppp0 and eth0. Hello Mike, Setting up a router,

[gentoo-user] vsftpd: not chrooting local users...

2006-07-07 Thread Jarry
Hi, Despite of having chroot_local_users=YES in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf local users are actually not chrooted after they log in to ftp-server! When I log in (from other computer, but using login/passwd for a real account I have on that server), I am just in my home dir, but whenever I want, I

Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ?

2006-07-07 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVDRAM: How ? Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:45:08 +0100 I heard of better NOT to use DVDRAN as a harddisk, since it has a limited lifetime (limited write cycles) and normal filesystems does not care about how often a certain block is

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64-hardened breaks upon glibc emerge

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Roman Zilka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: library, but after the upgrade of glibc it shows up in /usr/lib. The only solution I could make up was to move everything from /usr/lib to /usr/lib64, symlink /usr/lib - /usr/lib64 and then start emerging Actually seems like bug #133547, in which

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

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would 'emerge -eK world' be OK so I don't have to recompile? You mean emerge -eK xorg-x11? Yeah, that should be allright... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-~x86 emerge -Dvp world Doing that shows nothing for me. But renaming the package.keywords file shows about a hundred lines of downgrades (mostly KDE). This is with using Portage 2.1-r1. Is it a newer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't have just one main.c, I have 20+ different apps, each with their own main.c, which I don't maintain, for which I'd have to issue Ah, ok, sorry, I missed that part. So, can I ask /why/ you need the process name in this class?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel output to ttyS1 [solved]

2006-07-07 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 06. Jul 2006, 22:51:54 +0200 schrieb Jure Varlec: On Thursday 06 July 2006 20:20, Bertram Scharpf wrote: However, the kernel messages while booting get lost. The Grub configuration is: serial --unit=1 --speed=9600 ... kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-myone

[gentoo-user] video problem

2006-07-07 Thread Strake
hi all, I have a problem with my pc's video. Every couple of minutes, seemingly randomly, parts of the screen go blank or psychadelic. I have posted a partial screenshot here: http://switchmagazine.net/snap.jpg or http://switchmagazine.net/snap.png I am running Gentoo Base System

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] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-07-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/13/06, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Looks like I'll be masking =evolution-2.6.0 /rant http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking the

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:11, znx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow': On 27/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open to debate. I'd think it's

[gentoo-user] YaKuake Quake terminal emulator

2006-07-07 Thread Daevid Vincent
This thing is awesome! It's in portage (~ masked), so just emerge and run. Press F12 to have it drop down. Use the little down arrow on the far right to configure. Or right click and configure the konsole preferences. It's so incredibly useful (and not to mention slick as shit). Plus as a bonus,

Re: [gentoo-user] video problem

2006-07-07 Thread Quag7
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 17:27 +, Strake wrote: hi all, I have a problem with my pc's video. Every couple of minutes, seemingly randomly, parts of the screen go blank or psychadelic. I have posted a partial screenshot here: http://switchmagazine.net/snap.jpg or

[gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful distro. The first thing that I'd change is etc-update

[gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hello, guys! Situation: 1) Unclean shutdown 2) Boot 3) Kernel tries to mount / 4) xfs recovery starts 5) In the same time (before recovery is finished) kernel tries to start init, fails and panics. If I take the HDD and mount it (not as /) on another machine, there is no problem. The recovery

[gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have read the helpful gentoo-wiki entry. I am looking for recommendations/experiences. Would I perceive any difference between them? In

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Friday 07 July 2006 21:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have read the helpful gentoo-wiki entry. I am looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-~x86 emerge -Dvp world Doing that shows nothing for me. But renaming the package.keywords file shows about a hundred lines of downgrades (mostly KDE). This is with using

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread David Miller
I would try booting off a live cd that has the xfs utils on it. That way you can get your drive sorted out without worrying about your OS getting in the way.--DavidOn 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, guys!Situation:1) Unclean shutdown2) Boot3) Kernel tries to mount /4) xfs

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, guys! Situation: 1) Unclean shutdown 2) Boot 3) Kernel tries to mount / 4) xfs recovery starts 5) In the same time (before recovery is finished) kernel tries to start init, fails and panics. Hmm, I don't see this with my system. I'm

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

2006-07-07 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful distro. The first thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. But I don't have ~x86 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, just in the package.keywords file for a series of packages. So that won't work for me. Hrm, seems the USE environment var will override package.use (see USE_ORDER in make.conf), but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 July 2006 18:14, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't have just one main.c, I have 20+ different apps, each with their own main.c, which I don't maintain, for which I'd have to issue Ah, ok, sorry, I missed that part. So, can I ask /why/

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

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
David Miller wrote: I would try booting off a live cd that has the xfs utils on it. That way you can get your drive sorted out without worrying about your OS getting in the way. Interesting approach. This is exactly a workaround. If there is no straight solution I may finally find myself

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: Hmm, I don't see this with my system. I'm pretty sure that the mount() system call should not be returning before the recovery is finished. What kernel and baselayout versions are you using? -Richard === kernel: 2.6.16-ck12 #3 PREEMPT (ck-sources)

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

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thing that I'd change is etc-update or dispatch-conf. I'd suggest to create some kind of tool like dpkg-reconfigure in Debian. I don't know anything about dpkg-reconfigure, so I can't really comment on this. But one

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

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/7/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thing that I'd change is etc-update or dispatch-conf. I'd suggest to create some kind of tool like dpkg-reconfigure in Debian. I don't know anything about

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

2006-07-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that emerge is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma !!)... if someone

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

2006-07-07 Thread dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:12:13 -0400, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thing that I'd change is etc-update or dispatch-conf. I'd suggest to create some kind of tool like dpkg-reconfigure in Debian. I don't

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

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
Would 'emerge -eK world' be OK so I don't have to recompile? You mean emerge -eK xorg-x11? Yeah, that should be allright... -Richard That is what I meant and xorg-x11-7.0 is working great now. It's so fast! Thanks! - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-07 Thread leszek
Le vendredi 07 juillet 2006 à 14:12 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : Hmm, looks like a new version of python was installed. You should run python-updater to make sure all python modules are rebuilt. Do you want to do that now? The problem with this is that it break for users who put emerge in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about: getenv( _ ); Well, that is set by bash before it exec's anything, so that should work, provided the program[s] are always exec'd by bash and not by something else. It would be nicer if _ was set by the kernel, or even glibc. -Richard

[gentoo-user] tun/tap - ifconfig tun0 - device not found

2006-07-07 Thread Claudinei Matos
Hi guys,I'm trying to use tun/tap to assign some ip to my server (since I'll need it to my LVS solution) and I think it's a trivial task to put tun to work, but I'm trying in 3 different machines (with 2 different kernels) and in both they when I try to ifconfig tun0 I get the follow message:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone mentioned that /proc is deprecated for 2.6? is this correct? Is there a /sys alternative to /proc/self/status? Oh, I don't think /proc itself is deprecated. After all, ps, pstree, top and so on still use it. And it is not mentioned

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

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
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 [Icon Theme]

[gentoo-user] Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server, but /etc/init.d/cupsd start WARNING: cupsd has already been started

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Waeber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have read the helpful gentoo-wiki entry. I'm currently using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
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 two 'Driver'

Re: [gentoo-user] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the same kernel on my desktop and never had this problem.However I have to say there's a big difference between the desktop and the problematic PC. While the PC has a plain setup - only 1 hdd with only 1 partition (hda1), the desktop has its

Re: [gentoo-user] histappend shell option

2006-07-07 Thread Trenton Adams
On 7/5/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Where would I suggest a standard shell option to be incorporated into /etc/bash/bashrc? bugs.gentoo.org would be the appropriate place. File it as an enhacement request. I can't

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

2006-07-07 Thread Mick
On 07/07/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (EE) Failed to load the module synaptics (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input matching 'synaptics' Hmm, what does xset -q | grep Modules report? It should be /usr/lib/xorg/modules. Does synaptics_drv.so exist in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input? You

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server, but

[gentoo-user] genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 -- Digest verification failed

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Does anyone have any recommendation about what do I need to do to get genpatches to download correctly? Any suggestions? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Downloading http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 --14:51:51--

[gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe

2006-07-07 Thread fire-eyes
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 with overlays, that is a major

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

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
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] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: --snip It is far more likely that you could break python (and thus portage) from a mishandled gcc or glibc update. But there is already a recovery option available in this case; if you have buildpkg in your FEATURES, you will already have a backup copy of

Re: [gentoo-user] genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 -- Digest verification failed

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any recommendation about what do I need to do to get genpatches to download correctly? Usually when you get digest failures, you can: 1. What a while, then emerge --sync again. (may update the manifest) 2. Try a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:15:18 +0200 Rick van Hattem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 21:39, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: --snip I use dm-crypt on all my filesystems, so a very similar situation: my initramfs first mounts my root filesystem, and then chroot's into it. The mount call from userspace is likely the difference. A way out of the topic, but its a question that I want to ask. What

Re: [gentoo-user] genpatches-2.6.16-14.base.tar.bz2 -- Digest verification failed

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
Usually when you get digest failures, you can: 1. What a while, then emerge --sync again. (may update the manifest) 2. Try a different mirror. (may get a file that matches the manifest) 3. ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12.ebuild digest This

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 with

[gentoo-user] Switching from X to a VT

2006-07-07 Thread Statux
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. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -- Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-07 Thread Grant
(EE) Failed to load the module synaptics (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No input matching 'synaptics' Hmm, what does xset -q | grep Modules report? It should be /usr/lib/xorg/modules. Does synaptics_drv.so exist in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input? You might also try: USE=-dllloader emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:19:01 +0200 Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000 or the G7. I have read the helpful gentoo-wiki

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

2006-07-07 Thread Thomas Kear
xorg.conf options relating to that: (ServerFlags section) Option DontVTSwitch boolean This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Fn sequence (where Fn refers to one of the numbered function keys). That sequence is normally used to switch to another virtual terminal on operating systems

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-07 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look at udev now. They are essential, you want them. From

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 sure

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] xfs recovery + kernel panic

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A way out of the topic, but its a question that I want to ask. What is the performance hit of using encrypted file system? I hate laptops, but you never know ;-) Not so bad. I really don't notice any real performance problem using it, certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: synaptics_drv.so was not there so I emerged synaptics without dlloader and it appeared. Then I emerged synaptics with dlloader it was still there. Is that a protected directory? Nope. Odd. Oh well, as long as it's working... -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:19:01 +0200 Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000

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

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, correct me if I'm wrong but it think it's not quite true. I *think* if you have buildpkg in your FEATURES, you will get binary packages in your $PKGDIR with the new, updated versions. But previous versions are not deleted until you do an

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

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least in my laptop the devices still work like they did before. I only got one problem right now: xorg does not start, if the mouse is inside the xorg.conf (using evdev driver) but not attached. but perhaps this is my fault. Do you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

2006-07-07 Thread Colleen Beamer
Okay, I'm totally confused now and don't know what to do!On 7/7/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really recommend you use wpa_supplicant as IMO it is far easier to configure and supports more access methods than iwconfig.Since your wireless card is clearly detected it should be

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

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

2006-07-07 Thread Statux
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 17:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

2006-07-07 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy, I've got a fun little project to install portage on RHEL 4. Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow me to put Gentoo, so I figured I'd do the best I can and put portage :) So I pulled the tar ball, and put the binaries where they go and such. I set my profile up,

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

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/7/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, correct me if I'm wrong but it think it's not quite true. I *think* if you have buildpkg in your FEATURES, you will get binary packages in your $PKGDIR with the new, updated versions. But previous versions are not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:54:25 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, how is the mobility for the G7/MX1000? Do they come with bulky cradles that one would have to carry around? I believe both have a cradle. However, I already own a tiny trivial mouse for trips. The G7/MX1000 would

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

2006-07-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
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 . r370 is the chipset on the card, r300 is the (experimental) DRI driver that would be supporting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and I never seem to have the time. So I'm in continual crisis mode. Details (questions) below: On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage on RHEL4?

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Barlow wrote: exist!) Could someone guide me in the right direction? Anyone know what the e commands are and how to get them? Anyone know of a guide that I haven't found that talks about how to install portage on a general linux system?

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

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: The DRI functionality is still experimental. Some functions (specular lighting in particular) don't behave exactly as expected. For example, a couple of XScreensaver hacks don't work quite right for me. Still a darn sight better than

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

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. emerge/portage has lots of room for improvement. Lots of

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

2006-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that emerge is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone commits portage

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

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/7/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge/portage has lots of room for improvement. Lots of the code is quite messy and it has been largely neglected because most people simply refuse to do much work on such a mess. However, since I've joined the project, I've been doing doing

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

2006-07-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Richard Fish wrote: How about googleearth? Have you tried it? -Richard Haven't, sorry. May do when I get a moment though. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
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? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca --

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers ebuild?

2006-07-07 Thread Alan E. Davis
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 running with ~amd64) |

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:54:25 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, how is the mobility for the G7/MX1000? Do they come with bulky cradles that one would have to carry around? I believe both have a cradle. However, I already own

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