Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 01:48:43 Dale wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? huh? This was sent to -dev too. It referenced this bug on that list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:36:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? Nothing, as long as it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Then it helps to be able to log in to a console prompt and do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-06 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-05, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does he speak for all of you ? --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 --- lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in OSS-QM. we arent interested.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 04 July 2010 10:02:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: I thought the World Cup finished last weekend :( What world cup? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:38:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 10:02:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: I thought the World Cup finished last weekend :( What world cup? The football competition where england, france and italy all got their asses handed to them recently :-) I hear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/4/2010 10:05 PM, walt wrote: On 07/04/2010 06:38 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, * library imports should _always_ happen via pkg-config (dont use .la files) +1 (Am I allowed +100?) If so, allow me to +1billion

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages I found something related to

[gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. Putting some echo statements into configure

Re: [gentoo-user] installing app-emulation/wine-1.1.44

2010-07-06 Thread Petri Rosenström
Hi this bug report seems to be same as your problem http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283860 . In the comments suggestions are to not to use USE flag mp3 or to manually install app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs. Last comments say (2010-01-05) that it will still fail. dunno. Petri

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Eray Aslan
On 06.07.2010 18:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then Wild guess (since you did not mention which ebuild): quote the variable and try again, i.e. something like - if test

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. Putting some

[gentoo-user] Re: CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the depth of what's captured by dmesg so

[gentoo-user] Re: Any recent LVM changes?

2010-07-06 Thread walt
On 07/05/2010 12:24 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have two backup drives which use LVM partitions and groups. I also have LVM partitions and groups on my main system. When I try even vgscan on the backup disks, I get weird errors. Read errors, can't find the vg groups, can't write ... sort

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/06/10 19:34:29, Alex Schuster wrote: Helmut Jarausch writes: I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-06 Thread Christopher Swift
On 6 July 2010 12:14, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:38:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 10:02:37 Neil Bothwick wrote: I thought the World Cup finished last weekend :( What world cup? The football competition where england, france and

Re: [gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm trying to

[gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-06 Thread Crístian Viana
hi, when I was trying to emerge the newest libvirt ebuild, the following error appeared on configure: checking for VirtualBox XPCOMC location... not found configure: error: VirtualBox XPCOMC is required for the VirtualBox driver what do I need to install to make it work? I'm emerging with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:40:06AM -0500, Dale wrote Grant Edwards wrote: As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work. In that off chance, use the SysRq

[gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-06 Thread Grant
I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is nearly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-uvc

2010-07-06 Thread James Wall
On 7/1/2010 6:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:35:39PM +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/07/2010 05:17 AM, Grant wrote: I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-06 Thread Grant
I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding.  It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playing Blu-Ray rips via mplayer is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote: I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't