Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Justin wrote: Is there a way to use 7zip for decompression with emerge? Can this top-posting stop, please? Interleave, and snip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: It sb possible using regular expressions in (G)Vim, It somebody...? It soundboard...? It antimony...? Ah, it should be... Why not type the few extra characters and save multiple readers a search through their abbreviations list? Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: chown -R user: ~user What does the ~ make it do different? Change user only for those files that have a different one. No. The ~ prefixed to a user name means the home dir of that user as it is listed

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with FONTS under X

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS=-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -mtune=nocona CXXFLAGS=-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -mtune=nocona Recompile your entire system with -O2, and see if the problem persists. If it persists, show the full output of emerge --info. By

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

2008-03-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: Following a major upgrade I noticed that all my fonts had shrunk drastically. I was able to enlarge all of them, KDE, the desktop, consoles etc except the menu bar and drop down menus in firefox. I can increase the font size in the window no problem but not the menu bar

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 169.09-r1 problem [SOLVED]

2008-03-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Amar Cosic wrote: It seems X isn't starting :( . What to do ? First: stop top-posting. Second: snip irrelevant parts of the mail you are replying to. Third: stop sending an additional HTML version of your mail. About your problem, I have no idea, sorry. Benno --

[gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes no difference. Can anyone either confirm or contradict this strange

Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Since upgrading to KDE-3.5.9, pasting multiple lines into Kwrite leaves the cursor at the end of the first pasted line, instead of at the end of the pasted text. Using mouse middle click, Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert makes

Re: [gentoo-user] -Os = Nono?

2007-07-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mike Edenfield wrote: More importantly, -O2 seems to be the typical optimization setting, and almost all free software packages are built and tested and generally supported, for whatever that means in an open-source world, under -O2. If you report a bug in a package and you use -Os, the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I used to have more inputs/outputs to play with in alsamixer, but now all I have are Master, PCM, CD, Mic, Mic Boos, IEC958, and IEC958P. I used to have for instance Front Mic, You might need to pass a different model option during modprobe. First check with 'aplay -l'

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Alsa (mic) to work with my Intel HDA board

2007-07-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I did notice something, I had the gnome volume control open also and when I recorded it toggles the audio capture from Capture, if I untoggle it while I'm recording, it works, the mic's input is recorded. Sounds like a misconfiguration somewhere. Or like a bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? If you have no problems, then just stick with ISO-8859-15. But switching to UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Hmm... Your email uses UTF-8, but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. How come? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gary Artim wrote: * IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. localhost gary # find /etc -iname '._cfg*' /etc/mutt/._cfg_Muttrc.dist /etc/mutt/._cfg_mime.types.dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: It features an Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 video chip. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. The G33 and friends are listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: 070810 Alexander Skwar wrote: You wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré). Notice the letters é. This looks quite a lot like UTF-8 to me. In your header, you are saying, that you don't use UTF-8, though. I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (as now). [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: 070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: This suggests you are using a UTF-8 locale. In /etc/locale.gen I have en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 Well, that just shows which locales you have available, not which one you are actually using on the console (whether VT

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. Thanks. Good to know. And within a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: purslow: system locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=POSIX You will have to use a UTF-8 locale if you want mutt/gvim to be able to handle anything beyond ASCII. When setting a POSIX locale, I also get this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit When using a UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean that this is the vim encoding and any new file will be saved with this encoding? No, scriptencoding is just the encoding of /etc/vim/vimrc. File encoding is handled by 'fileencodings' further down. - If I open a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: 070813 Philip Webb wrote: I now have (via a line in .bashrc ): LANG= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ... snip ... LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Ideally LANG should be set and LC_ALL unset. The individual LC_* variables will take their value from LANG when LC_ALL is unset. This

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: :set encoding encoding=latin1 I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1 No. To see what encoding a file has, you could use 'file'. Run 'file thefileyouedited', and it should say UTF-8 Unicode

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: Or, I leave Vim encoding alone and run export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 and Vim will use that. Did I get this right? Precisely. But why don't you just try it and see how it behaves? PS. What I am not entirely sure about is where is the locale set for my system? When it's not set

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. Huh? How is this machine able to boot then? Here /boot isn't a separate partition, but just a subdir of /, which is mounted without notail, and has been so for years. # mount | grep / /dev/hda9 on / type

Re: [gentoo-user] how list all emerged portages?

2007-08-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Xihong Yin wrote: How do I list all emerged portages? # emerge portage-utils # qlop --list sys-apps/portage Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no shorewall

2007-08-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: Meanwhile, I ended up by selecting all modules in my former config, even those that are plainly irrelevant (according to the help in menuconfig) and shorewall now starts OK. I just wish I were any wiser, which I'm not. Sure you are. You've learned that shorewall sets up

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Matthias Fechner wrote: Installed versions: 3.1_p17(22:37:52 09/04/07)(-afs -bashlogger nls -vanilla) 3.2_p17(21:23:37 09/04/07) Hmm? You have two bashes installed? Please show us the output of 'qlop -ul bash' (qlop is from portage-utils). And paste the

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: USE= -X -gtk -gnome -kde -xpm -gpm -alsa -qt -java -ipv6 -berkdb -gdbm -pdo -pdo-external -posix -cgi -force-cgi-redirect cli apache2 ctype fastbuild ftp gd hash iconv mysql nls pcre pic reflection session simplexml soap sockets spl ssl sqlite tokenizer truetype xml

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: I update de portage, You did what exactly? Did you run 'emerge --sync' or 'emerge -a portage'? [ebuild N] virtual/mysql-5.0 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.2.3-r3 [5.1.4] USE=-fastbuild* -filter% -ftp* -hash* -imap* -json% -ldap-sasl% -pic* -snmp* -sockets*

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Matthias Fechner wrote: ---snip--- Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 app-shells/bash-3.1_p16 Tue Apr 17 21:43:38 2007 app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 Tue Sep 4 22:37:57 2007 app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 ---snip--- Please don't snip anything, show the full output. app-shells/bash: 3.1_p17, 3.2_p17 Do

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGE USE PHP additional options problem

2007-09-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Pablo Murillo wrote: If I USE -mysql the PHP won't have support for mysql ? Precisely. If sqlite is not enough and you need mysql, then yiou will have to uninstall qmail and install ssmtp instead. Or file a bug in Gentoo's bugzilla against mysql, that it should be able to cope with qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Paste

2007-09-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Korthrun wrote: I've done some tweaking of my xorg.conf, .xbindkeysrc and .Xmodmap to get my logitech mx1000 working. The forums/wiki helped a lot with this. You're not saying which forums or wiki. :) The https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MX1000Mouse page suggests that the following may be

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: 5) I did the step: zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from the CD you booted from), not the configuration you may have had earlier on the system you chrooted into. Did you tweak

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from the CD you booted from), not the configuration you may have had earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: So what I thought was some residual problem with screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really the problem after all. It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you blanked the first few gigabytes of the disk with 'dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daevid Vincent wrote: I wonder what am I hanging on to Gentoo for (since my first install in 2004). I REALLY love the theory behind it. I REALLY think/thought it has potential. I REALLY love the customization. So ask yourself what customizations you made in Gentoo that you can't make in

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: Now, I'm on the road to being up and running again. Good to hear your ordeal is over. What I would be most interested in seeing is a diff between the config of the working 2.6.21 and the failing 2.6.22. If on the current system both kernels have been installed, both

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Paste

2007-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Korthrun wrote: Since making these changes I've lost my middleclick to paste functionality, Since you're not posting any more, did you succeed in getting the middle button working again? Maybe I'll just set the box on fire tonight. Or may we conclude that you gave in to the temptation?

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems. Could you give an example? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I have a sound problem with my dell1400 laptop: I have no sound from the speakers in the laptop but I can have sound from headphones after I insert them. Card: HDA Intel │ Chip: SigmaTel STAC9228

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: On 10/19/07, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3238 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2923 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2901 The network here is very slow

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: Unrecognised deviceID 29c2 backtrace ... ... /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so ... (provided by pkg 'mesa') What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? And what is in the Section Device of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: 071029 Benno Schulenberg wrote: What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? 'mesa-progs-6.5.2' (latest available). Get the one from testing, 7.0.1. But what you need is media-libs/mesa; mesa-progs is just glxinfo/glxgears. 'xf86-video-i810-2.1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: I updated to the latest versions 7.0.1 7.0.1 2.1.1 rebooted there is no change: X crashes as soon as 'glxinfo' starts with the same error message unrecognised deviceID 29c2 while using /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so . What kernel version are you running? Try updating to

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: The kernel is 2.6.22-r8 : I will try 2.6.23 tomorrow. No need, sorry, I was pointing you in the wrong direction. Kernel 2.6.22 already knows about 29c2 for i915. I checked the wiki paragraph the subdir it refers to the modules are already built 'lsmod' shows them

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Sullivan wrote: # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 is not set This should be switched on. # CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 is not set And if you use IPv6, then this one too. But if you don't absolutely need IPv6, better switch all support for it off, just because it is less confusing that way.

Re: [gentoo-user] python bug on gentoo with webbrowser module

2007-11-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: import webbrowser webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') Works fine for me, opens the site in Firefox. What version of Python? What's in your webbrowser._browsers? Python 2.4.4 (#1, Nov 9 2007, 16:26:42) webbrowser._browsers {'kfm': [class webbrowser.Konqueror at

[gentoo-user] bookmarks invisible in Firefox fullscreen

2007-12-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there -- because it is possible to select for example the last entry with Up and Enter -- but it is

Re: [gentoo-user] bookmarks invisible in Firefox fullscreen

2007-12-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there -- because it is possible to select for example

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel wrote: $ eix cdrtools Installed versions: 2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07) Uninstall this. Install cdrkit instead. Then try K3b again. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Mmmh, so you think it could be software after all? No, if the light on the firewall and on the NIC itself don't come on when you plug in the ethernet cable, the card isn't working. When a different slot doesn't work either, it seems something on your PCI bus is dead.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Yes, I have a PCI sound card and it definitely works. My Oggs are still playing. :-) Does the soundcard also work in the slots that you tried the NICs in? (If the soundcard doesn't work there, don't try the NIC in the original slot of the soundcard, unless you're

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I'm starting to wonder if I have two broken NICs after all. Do they work when you plug them into your firewall box? If they do, then it can really be only the cable. Are you certain that you're not using a cross-over cable when you need a straight one, or the other way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Furthermore stage 1 is completely unsupported and for a very good reason. Which good reason, Bo? You seem to know it, so maybe give a link somewhere; don't make us guess or search. Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot shutdown KDE

2005-12-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
C. Beamer wrote: and 4 configuration files related to kde were updated. The files were: klipperrc, ksslcalist, kdmrc, and libkleopatrarc. Ah, kdmrc... Don't do that. :) Press 2 when that one comes along. So, in a nutshell, I still cannot shutdown or reboot when I select these from the

Re: [gentoo-user] son of can't mount vfat part.

2005-12-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
maxim wexler wrote: I created a fat32, ID 'b' partition w/fdisk. Formatted w/ mkdosfs -F 32 Please show the output of cfdisk or parted. But can't be mounted in gentoo: unknown filesytem type 'vfat'. In fact the same error occurs w/ -t vfat, -t auto or no specified fs at all. Then you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Two boots?

2005-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the first boot attempt stops near the time the clock service is run. Then the machine reboots itself, and the boot process succeeds. The same happens to me, exactly at the same point. Could it be that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor Startup Issue

2005-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
C. Beamer wrote: Today, I updated my desktop system and recompiled a new kernel. Afterwards I re-emerged alsa-driver and ati-drivers. The update solved an issue with not being able to turn off or reboot the computer when I selected either from the menu on KDE logout. Hmm... what things did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: Most of the reported problems with testing packages seem to be from people running mixed stable/testing systems. Just a hunch, or do you keep numbers? If everyone ran stable, how stable would it be with no testing? If everyone ran either full stable or full testing, how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:11:30 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: If everyone ran either full stable or full testing, how are problems that occur when one the testing packages makes it to stable going to be detected? By the ones running stable. :( So, mixed systems

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: But ping -c 4 google.com sends traffic to 192.168.123.254 port 53 each time, even if only 30 seconds apart. This was confirmed by running tcpdump -n dst port 53 in another console and watching the output. Same thing here. But apparently ping somehow bypasses the cache,

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apparently ping somehow bypasses the cache, because when doing several wgets on a single domain, only the first time a DNS query is sent out. Interesting. It doesn't happen on my system. Even stranger, a 'ping

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

2006-01-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ernie Schroder wrote: This is just too wierd! I've done all the maintainance steps everyone has suggested, probably several times by now, but kmail still refuses to send email. What's in your .kde/share/config/kmailrc under the [Transport x] headers? kio (KDirWatch): WARNING:

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED

2006-01-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ernie Schroder wrote: would be interesting to find what caused the problems in the first place. Well, you do keep backups, don't you? :) Then diff an old .kde dir with your current one. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119146 Is there any chance that Gentoo developers could commit this fix to the portage, even though it is still in SVN? Unlikely: search bugs.gentoo.org for similar kde bugs and you'll see they get marked UPST (upstream). Normally only

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alan E. Davis wrote: But one glaring deficiency keeps hitting me in the face---you can't do links with them. With Konq you can: hold Ctrl+Shift while dragging and dropping a file. (But that's only symlinks, and surely you wish to do hard links too. :) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ian wrote: But there are still a few things in /usr/kde/3.5 Dirs: env, share, shutdown What should I do? Throw the whole 3.5 dir away. (Tar it up first, if you wish to play it safe.) Also clean out any *kde*3.5 files from /etc/env.d and run env-update.sh. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thiago Lüttig wrote: hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238 ) That bug is not about kdegraphics but about revdep-rebuild. Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. How? What commands do you give? Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ian wrote: What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop konsole kcontrol right? No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, at least here it did. Also, you won't need kcontrol if you don't want to adjust anything. But don't you want kmail and konqueror? Benno

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). That was it!!! That was the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? As seen from the debug output, hwclock works fine without it. But maybe some other programs have some use for it, I don't know, here it is off. I am also using HPET in my kernel. Can I use both these features? Do they clash with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces scan codes. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. Please give us one example. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ralph K wrote: I recently installed xorg 7.0 on my system and I get the following errors when using 'startx' or 'Xorg -configure': Wth module glx - 'undefined symbol' glCallList With module via_drv - 'undefined symbol' drmCommandWrite To get the newer via driver to load, I've had to add

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. Does anybody know what could be causing this? A miscompiled KMail? Did you recompile it recently? Or kdelibs maybe? With

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load GLcore' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an awkward location on the keyboard. On my keyboard the normal Delete key produces keycode 111, and the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I add the Load GLcore I get a undefined symbol for __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in libglx.so) Without (or without) Load GLcore I get a failure on Load glx from and undefined symbol glCallList which is provided in libGLcore.so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with the message is delivered blank? If you configure KMail and set the Default send method as

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-02-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was working fine. [...] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4 [2.12.0] -debug +doc +ssl -static 661 kB If you run 'emerge -pet abiword', you'll see

Re: [gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?

2006-02-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Kjorling wrote: How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, preferably only for my own account? See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like: xmodmap -e keycode 240 = a A space Return Put the required xmodmap command in your .bashrc. Benno --

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-02-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: I did the revdep-rebuild and found some other problems, but didn't seem to be a problem with orbit. Not with orbit directly; you did rebuild libbonobo? A manual install of orbit 2.12.0 Ouch. Such things shouldn't be necessary. Better flee forward: echo app-office/abiword

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

2006-02-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Kjorling wrote: I am having some trouble with X11 DRI on my AMD64 system. It works fine the first time after a reboot (I have xdm in the default runlevel so get a graphical login) but after logging off and back on, all I get is software rendering. Seeing that here too sometimes. It

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...

2006-02-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jarry wrote: Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: CPU:0 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP:0060:[c0148ee0]Not tainted VLI Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-gentoo-r1) Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bogo Mipps wrote: Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now can't emerge either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version (5.3.0-r1) and needless to say have lost all coreutils tools which doesn't help. Yours is a up-to-date system and you have busybox installed? Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: here's the output of 'equery files coreutils': Hmm... equery behaves different when its output is redirected. Here's a list without any of the duplicates (symlinks) in /usr/bin. /bin/basename /bin/cat /bin/chgrp /bin/chmod /bin/chown /bin/chroot /bin/cksum /bin/comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Franta wrote: I've reduced the troubles I have to udev right now. Everything works fine if I start the system, create the devices manually and work as usual. Why not set RC_DEVICES to static in /etc/conf.d/rc then and be done with it? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bogo Mipps wrote: Thanks guys - will start with this one, in the hope that someone out there will take pity. No no, don't take pity. This is too good a chance to see busybox in action. :) Please report back how you are getting along. Start with these: busybox ln -s busybox /bin/ln ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bogo Mipps wrote: Yes, it's up-to-date and busybox is installed.  Never had the occasion to use it, but this could be the time. Yes! :) What's the fun in taking binaries from others when you have busybox aboard, and it is there exactly for this purpose. If you don't like trial and error,

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bogo Mipps wrote: /bin/install -c 'cp' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install: unable to open /bin/install -c 'vdir' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir' install: unable to open Hrrm... No idea why it's doing that... On a secondary gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: here too it keeps failing at different places all the time. This is a bug in busybox 1.00, it's fixed in busybox-1.1.0. On my primary partition I've emerged the newer version, copied it to the other partition, and did the 'ebuild install' again: it worked flawlessly

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

2006-02-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bogo Mipps wrote: /bin/install -c 'cp' '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install: unable to open `/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp': No such file or directory Ahrrr! We were _so_ close... All it would have taken to get around this was 'rm

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-02-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: I emerged libbonobo, and bonobo. Didn't help anything. You do use --oneshot when re-emerging something. It doesn't matter for now, but it keeps your dependencies from getting tangled up later on. All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -p -v

Re: [gentoo-user] console dispaly

2006-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hogar The Horrible wrote: Since I have inslalled gentoo I have a problem. My X works fine but I have problems with consoles. [...] I have a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop Amilo pro v2000. I have integrated GPU : VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: In my /usr/portage there were files concerning gcc-4.02 (and even gcc-4.1.beta*). But they were silently ignored. Of course. First emerge eix. Then run 'eix -e gcc'. You will see: ... *4.0.2-r3 *4.1.0_beta20060203 From 'man eix' you will learn what the *

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Spellchecking Disabled?

2006-02-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: For some reason when I reply or create a new message in Kmail the dynamic spellchecking is disabled. Ctrl+N, Alt+O, A. (New Message, Options, Auto.Spell. -- it remembers the setting.) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

2006-02-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. I've even tried touching it but it remains empty. After touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. From 'man ntpd': ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.

2006-02-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: hddtemp /dev/hda for example /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C # hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 22 C This doesn't look right, as system temperature is shown as 29°C. At startup hddtemp reported 12 C, while room temperature is 17°C. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

2006-02-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: cc1: out of memory allocating 8579592 bytes after a total of 7716864 bytes Swap not enabled? Also, emerge --info output would be helpful. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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