[gentoo-user] Multiple architectures for portage CFLAGS?

2009-02-05 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I have encountered a problem maintaining my system using revdep-rebuild. I have both gcc-3.4.6 and gcc-4.3.2 installed on my machine. I mainly use gcc4, but sometimes I need g77 because many people at my laboratory use fortran code that is not compliant with gfortran standards. However,

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1710 (90678-90727)

2009-02-12 Thread daid kahl
hi, after trying many time, i am again trying to install the gentoo on my macbook pro 4.1 . after pessing 2 days with it, still i have some problem: 1. sound not working (tried most of the solutions that available online 2. wifi not working 3. touchpad not working ok (two fingurs scroll

[gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread daid kahl
In vim, you can just select the rectangular region with Ctrl-v, then type I#ESC. This will insert # in each line at the same column. If you want to comment a series of lines m-n , it's quicker to do : :m,ns/^/#/ I saw similar comments in my Google searches, but I am flummoxed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread daid kahl
Is there any way to access the vim buffers from other than vi? Using Konsole, if I want to copy something from vim I have to highlight with the mouse and right click, which is annoying. I really just want a better way to copy from Konsole that doesn't involve right click. At least

[gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-14 Thread daid kahl
I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I also installed Wicd to see if I could avoid the problem that way. The problem seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-14 Thread daid kahl
)On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I Try shutting it down

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-15 Thread daid kahl
2009/2/15 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-15 Thread daid kahl
2009/2/15 Shawn Haggett po...@podgeweb.com daid kahl wrote: 2009/2/15 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com mailto:daid...@gmail.com )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address

[gentoo-user] Re: Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-16 Thread daid kahl
2009/2/14 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I also installed Wicd to see if I could avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-17 Thread daid kahl
2009/2/16 Guillermo Garron guillermo.fed...@gmail.com Hi, I am new to Gentoo, and yes I am also new to compiling kernels. I recently got in to configuring my own kernel (I'm not sure if you're at this level or using other people's .config files); it's a bit lazy and maybe risky not to

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-18 Thread daid kahl
Also, you should avoid using oldconfig except for really minor kernel upgrades. I know this is mentioned in documentation elsewhere, but just a useful reminder. ~daid This has been discussed on this list before. Running make oldconfig works fine. I, and a lot of others, have said

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade

2009-02-18 Thread daid kahl
I'm inclined to sumbit to the expertise of others when choosing kernel compilation options, and so I generally boot a recent liveCD and take a copy of the kernel .config from there (`zcat /proc/config.gz`) System Rescue CD uses a kernel of about the same vintage as the one you're trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/2/19 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:13 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G SSHD with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset;also the ethernet would be nice, it uses the L1e Gigabit chip, another

[gentoo-user] Downgrading from ~x86 to x86

2009-04-20 Thread daid kahl
Hello! I was running the unstable branch of portage primarily for about two years (mostly from user error when I first started), and I finally committed to downgrading to the stable branch last night. I did backups first, and I'm keeping some good logs of any trouble I encounter. So far, gnome

[gentoo-user] Booting a Kernel-2.4 with glibc-2.9?

2009-07-08 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work. Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 kernel does not boot (Fatal error, kernel too old). Fortunately there is a 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting a Kernel-2.4 with glibc-2.9?

2009-07-11 Thread daid kahl
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 17:13:16 daid kahl wrote: Hello, I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work. Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 kernel does

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-12 Thread daid kahl
2009/8/10 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk On 9 Aug 2009, at 08:01, Andrey Vul wrote: I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No

[gentoo-user] Portage doesn't notice all networkmanager dependencies for rebuild

2009-09-09 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I was upgrading (or downgrading technically) from ~x86 to x86. So I didn't update or sync for about 6 months, and then with a few exceptions for ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords I was able to get to stable after emerging ~384 packages. This is not a highly recommended process, but

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-10-01 Thread daid kahl
Change it in Systemsettings. I use konsole-4.3.1 with kde-3.5.10 and after the change it opens firefox for me. What all do you unmask for this? I'm still kicking around 3.5.10, but I wouldn't mind some updated apps, and some of the new Konsole features sound useful (which is ironic, since

Re: [gentoo-user] *WARNING* updating Xorg

2009-10-02 Thread daid kahl
2. The second guide uses a lot of one-shot emerges; could anyone please explain why I'd use a one-shot? ISTM that if a package is on my system, I'd want it routinely updated. If I need it only once, then instruct me to unmerge it after it's done!? The basic idea of --oneshot is to avoid

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

2009-10-02 Thread daid kahl
Seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through just to get a facility that comes out of the box in 3.5. Maybe I'll give it a try anyway, so thanks. Yeah, right? I was thinking of making the switch, but I was convinced there must be infinite tricks hidden. ~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
What editor do you prefer, then? I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts.

Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
Apparently I have bodged the setup somehow on this system. Each time I plug in a flash drive, two Nautilus windows open up. If I plug three USB drives in, six windows open. Any ideas please, to smooth this minor wrinkle? Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot setup acpi

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
I'm trying to setup acpi, but I cannot get it work Hello, I didn't set up acpi for power save yet, but I did do it for getting my laptop to go to sleep on lid close, and it was really easy. Since I imagine this might be a function you also want (and I got it working really easily), you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
... Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or external usb harddrives) to a specified location based on serial number. ... I can either give an overview or dig up the url if anyone likes. I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual automount drives with udev

[gentoo-user] Strange KDE .txt CUPS Settings

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
Hello all, I witnessed some unexpected printing behavior recently. I can't really understand why these results happen, but I solved my specific problems. I'm running KDE 3.5.10, so this might not apply to 4.x (though I'd be interested if someone could test it!). I usually use a2ps to print

[gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?

2009-10-04 Thread daid kahl
Hello all, I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs to play correctly on my laptop, and I found that I after I installed libdvdcss from portage, portage did not think to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc), but that was necessary to get full viewing functionality. In the first case, I wonder if

Re: [gentoo-user] Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in

2009-10-05 Thread daid kahl
I simply can't make any sense of them. Your mailer also used HTML. If you wish to make postings of this kind then I would be grateful if you could place me on your ignore list, and not make such replies to my messages. Sorry. This should be regular text now. How do you find the serial,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?

2009-10-05 Thread daid kahl
I was getting some Japanese-bought DVDs ... to rebuild kaffeine (or mplayer, etc) Nope. What you have to do is to set up the correct use flags for xine-lib (dvd). I think the css USE flag may also be required, at least by some packages. Well, dvd and xine are both in my world file. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage should rebuild kaffeine after libdvdcss installed?

2009-10-05 Thread daid kahl
2009/10/5 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that the devs might have separated the decryption and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread daid kahl
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company I had a Dell laptop a few years back. It was the reason for maybe 2

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I follow the Installation guide of gentoo. I'm in step Does anybody know what should I do ? The first thing I *always* do when installing a fresh Gentoo system and hitting a bug: 1) Google and look at the first page 2) Put the failed package version in /etc/portage/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-08 Thread daid kahl
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly. In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows. Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it. Try it in Linux first and let us know how it goes. I never

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-08 Thread daid kahl
Not really specific to gentoo, except that I want to do this with a Gentoo PC: Is it possible to attach my Gentoo PC 'G' to another PC 'W' (running Windows) via USB, so that G appears to be a removable media to W? I think you need special USB cables with some electronics in the middlle for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-08 Thread daid kahl
Nope, you're just doing it wrong. You're forgetting to do the bit where you pop the key lids off to wash them then forget where to put them back That explains it, I just put the whole keyboard in the dishwasher. That may sound stupid, but it's not as bad as using Cc: on mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/ccache/bin does not exist, big deal?

2009-10-08 Thread daid kahl
I'm emergin system and world after a little while, maybe 4 months, I got directory does not exist /usr/lib/ccache/bin I search a bit, and it seems that ccache accelerate compiling. So it's seems to emerge anyway in a good way. What should I do to kinda make it better ? Just create that

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-14 Thread daid kahl
Who mentioned data loss? Formatting in Windows reduces the risk of Windows complaining about the format. It may not be standards-compliant, but at least is is consistently broken. Sorry I'm a bit late on this, but just a note, in fstab, you should use the option iocharset=utf8, otherwise it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm

2009-10-14 Thread daid kahl
It must be a year or so now with all different kernels.  On boot up kdm fires up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console.  Alt+F7 brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-14 Thread daid kahl
What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4? I did start masking each package separately, but that's far too much work - I'd finish up with an entry for every kde package that has a version 4. Also, kde:4, which seems like the right thing to specify, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to baselayout2 / openrc

2009-10-14 Thread daid kahl
Hi,  for this weekend I planned to migrate to baselayout 2  finally.  On gentoo web I found this: 2.  Migration to OpenRC  Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in  as part of your regular upgrade process by your package manager.  I tried to check this

[gentoo-user] lirc / irkick Minor Security Hole?

2009-10-15 Thread daid kahl
Hello, This is not strictly a Gentoo issue, but since we have a good habit to report upstream bugs and security issues (and I use Gentoo), I wanted to run by a possible security hole to others. When my machine is locked, I can still use an IR remote, running through lirc and programmed through

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem.

2009-10-15 Thread daid kahl
Hi. I tryed install gentoo 10.0 and there was: scanning for ata_piix and istallation stopped. If i switch off the sata disk then installation runs good. I try gentoo 10.1 now and stopped on: Scanning for ehci-hcd...usb core. I switch off usb on motherboard and installation continue. But then

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel iwl3945 problem

2009-10-15 Thread daid kahl
I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the wireless to work correctly.  My wireless is making an association with my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I can't even ping my AP.  TCP/IP works fine on the ethernet adapter. Wireshark (without

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Openmoko Freerunner as USB client

2009-10-18 Thread daid kahl
I think what has really killed Openmoko is the inability to get hold of 3G chips in the low quantities and licensing terms they required. Lack of camera and 3G were the biggest source of this is lame, i was really interested but lacking these i'm not buying a freerunner whinges on the mailing

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

2009-11-04 Thread daid kahl
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 do it either. Is it really possible to do this? You need to create an activity for each desktop and set the wallpaper within

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start on intel iMac

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/6 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca: Hello, I have an intel iMac Core 2 Duo with an ATI radeon HD 2400 XT video card.  I have not been able to get X working. I'm also running on an apple machine (macbook), so I might be able to help. My video card is intel, so my settings won't be exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-07 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/4 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me.  I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. I tried closely comparing the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-08 Thread daid kahl
I tried closely comparing the current working kernel with newly built one. I mean side by side with `make menuconfig' running in both sources. I cannot tell what it is I'm overlooking. Please do not do this.  Instead emerge kccmp to compare kernel configurations!  It is much easier...trust

Re: [gentoo-user] deleted inode referenced

2009-11-08 Thread daid kahl
There are files in  /var  /tmp  which I can't remove: the msg is EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 16388. Can anyone help ? Did you try removing it from a live Linux distro (ie: on a USB stick)? Or if it lets you move it, maybe you can move it to the temporary file

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GMA 4500MHD

2009-11-08 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I'm looking at a Dell Vostro 1720 Laptop with this Intel video chip: Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD Anyone with any experience or comments as to Intel's video offerings, as far as it related to (X)/Gentoo on the laptop are most welcome. The software support

[gentoo-user] Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior. It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. Examples: During console login, the key-combination Shift+2 deletes the whole line, and Shift+3 is a backspace, rather than

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Is there some simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an installed package 2) Display the emerge history?  Such tools would assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an upgrade. Sorry, I am looking at /var/log/emerge.log now. ~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
if has_version ''${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then  eerror Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:  eerror Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction  die aborting to save your system fi I want to do it anyway. I had a circumstance where I also had to downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
I have a 20 inch aluminum imac:  uname -a Linux pyrope 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #9 SMP Sat Nov 14 14:04:55 NST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I'm using the in-kernel alsa drivers.  I have tried compiling into the kernel and as modules.  I cannot get

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
# emerge alsa-util alsa oss Sorry, that should be alsa-oss ~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
# emerge alsa-util alsa oss ...and alsa-utils I should go to sleep...

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread daid kahl
So this is one of those times where why words come back to haunt me?? :-) What I think I shall do first, is downgrade binutils to 1.19.x and rebuild a few apps I've noticed that are affected. I think the odds of success are pretty good. If not, well, a reinstall-rebuild is the certain route

Re: [gentoo-user] USB auto mounting

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager in place and that plugin is enabled. For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in. I am not sure when this stopped working. My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, chroot no help

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com: Hi group, I ran  emerge -avuDN world and came up with blocked packages which I eliminated by  un-merging device-mapper and e2fsprogs-libs. When I rebooted was greeted by a maintenance console and the message libblkid.so.1 cannot open shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
Back on topic now :-) Apparently upstream is aware of this silly behaviour/bug, maybe I should wait a bit and see if they provide a knob to go back to the old behaviour This sounds like a reasonable plan. glibc downgrades aren't supported not only because they are a pain in the rear, but they

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at all. I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here, although much has

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on intel imac [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the model= options for ALC883/888 and ALC882/885, having gleaned from the internet that these are most similar to the 889A.  The possible choices are listed in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt. Several

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues [solved]

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/18 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com: Hello, After some recent updates, my keyboard shows some strange and undesirable behavior.  It is a MacBook (no previous keyboard problems), with US mapping and UTF-8 mode. It appears that the problem is some unholy alliance between hal-0.5.13-r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ... correct? This is rather counterintuitive to me, as my main workstation is far from an embedded or small system (ok, not compared to the 4096-cpu-clusters in http://xkcd.com/619/ , but compared to, for example, my embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread daid kahl
I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work. I found it in /var/log/messages.  It said: Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] /bin contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
This all happened because you didn't read this: pkg_preinst() {        if use make-symlinks [[ ! ${VERY_BRAVE_OR_VERY_DUMB} == yes ]] [[ ${ROOT} == / ]] ; then                ewarn setting USE=make-symlinks and emerging to / is very dangerous.                ewarn it WILL overwrite lots

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, on one of several machines and only occasionally my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU. I have killed some applications but this didn't help unless I killed X itself and restarted it. Is there any way to find out what is

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-25 Thread daid kahl
Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often. A good idea. If for some reason you don't have disk image backups...grab something like system rescue cd, and partimage the whole drive and the restore from it...

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer  works. I checked out dmesg, and it says that (among other things): Check the various hybernation/acpi config files.  There should be the option somewhere in there to stop alsasound when it hybernates and start it

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
2009/11/25 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, on one of several machines and only occasionally my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU. I have killed some applications but this didn't help unless I killed X itself and restarted it. Is there any way to find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
I'm running the 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 kernel, xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 and  x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11 So, this is quite recent. Only killing X itself cures the problem. Of course, I have reemerged x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/ati-drivers and I have run revdep-rebuild. Probably I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-26 Thread daid kahl
This reminds me of a problem we had just recently. Have you got a multi-core CPU ? If yes, read on. If you all think it might be multi-core related, check out a recent post that was syndicated to planet.gentoo:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months

Re: [gentoo-user] OS inaccessable after brief uptime in X

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I keep having a problem where the OS becomes inaccessable after running in X for a while.  I haven't noticed a time pattern yet but it doesn't take long sometimes. I see no problem when starting X and I see nothing in /var/log/messages that gives a clue about what is happening. I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Hi group, When my netbook boots under battery power w/o the ac adapter connected I get this warning msg in the boot  window: 'Skipping fsck due to not being an ac adapter'. Chaos ensues. The warning appears in /etc/init.d/fsck. How do I fix this? Some option in /etc/conf.d/fsck? I did

[gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now. Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Since it takes about 2 hours + to crash out (the *exact* same way), it's also not trivial to try lots of different ideas. I'd read something that

[gentoo-user] Re: OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks like my hopes were dashed. If my eyes needed a screen saver, this would be burned into my retinas. Long answer: The reason for the failure is in the build log, but it is never just above the error message. It is often many 1000s of lines

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
You say Chaos ensues ... in what way? Further errors, failure to boot, file system corruption, or...? The problem isn't likely rooted in the fact that it doesn't run an fsck when the system's booting on battery, but rather that you have some more pressing problem that should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
[about LastPass] I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the Security by bullshit baffles brains Alert. It's ringing right now ;-) Hahahaha. Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock it. Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all PATHS

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
Forgive the top-post, but I would like to say I was very impressed by the analysis of Joerg Schilling. Given the issue appears resolved, I can't help myself: When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo, cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
So I managed to fix the other wonkiness on my system (viz, gcc and emacs not emerging). Turns out, I had been sloppy in putting together my make.conf and used march=prescott when I should have been using march=pentium4. Fixed it, ran emerge -uDNe world. Things emerge now. Really late post on

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
I've been getting the same silly OpenOffice compile error for a couple weeks now.  Nothing I can search up or think of seems to do the trick. Here's the end of the output during compile: 1 module(s):       unoxml need(s) to be rebuilt I had hoped to never ever see this error again, looks

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory.  Now I'm having trouble with kmail.  It seems that the permissions on ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed... How are you mounting the drive? If it's in fstab, do you have the right options set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
[about LastPass] I have an alarm system in my head. It's called the Security by bullshit baffles brains Alert. It's ringing right now ;-) Hahahaha. Just make your doorknob turn the wrong way and you don't have to lock it.  Or you could remap all your system filestructure, remove all

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Right. wrong Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable fsck at boot. There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2  and requires being checked at every boot. Wrong. There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs vs not booting at all, dammit! And I'm not sure about this fewseconds. I suppose a netbook drive is small. But if I'm toying around with kernel configs and

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Success on compiling OOo! I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case. However, I've undone my changes in the ebuild and began compiling again so that I can confirm it fails with only that change. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? I used this fstab entry on the client: 10.0.1.1:/home  /home   nfs     defaults        0       0 Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot. But usually from my experience items in fstab would be mounted before the network is

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
2009/12/1 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com: What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? I used this fstab entry on the client: 10.0.1.1:/home  /home   nfs     defaults        0       0 Using defaults you are auto-mounting at boot.  But usually from my experience items in fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
That's a known issue - it saw a reference to it on b.g.o. last night. That bug report declared it to be a kde integration error. Logic tells me any number of faulty things could do it too). Shouldn't be kde. Unmerged that last month... I'm sure the OOo maintainer will appreciate the

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-11-30 Thread daid kahl
Success on compiling OOo! I'm quite certain it was the ebuild, and that making it use the internal redland and not the system redland was the issue in my case. Bing! Now submitted a bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295268 Regards, daid

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Roy Marples, who is a(the?) openrc developer, roped me into using git to do whatever git is supposed to do and now it's much worse. /dev/sd1 and 2 fail to mount as before PLUS many init services fail to start PLUS it no longer matters if the battery is being used or the ac cord: Chaos ensues,

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Unless you are a developer or trying to get around bugs in portage where the ebuild isn't working, you should need to use git as a Gentoo user. *Shouldn't* need to use git.

Re: [gentoo-user] OO fails with useless 65280 error on unoxml

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Somewhere in this thread was a mention of a failed patch. Where version of patch are you using? If it's 2.6, downgrade it as 2.6 is horribly broken http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of- gnu-patch-2-6 There was some patching things that caught my

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete needs net-libs/ortp ??

2009-12-01 Thread daid kahl
Thanks for letting me know this was blank.  Gmail doesn't send me a copy back so I had no clue.  I thought I had stumped everyone with this one.  O_O I thought maybe you were testing some new super-concise method of asking for help by including all relevant info in the subject line. Hey...less

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
 2  pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. I kindly disagree. ~[arch] is testing for Gentoo ebuild. It's considered stable upstream. This was an upstream bug, not a Gentoo bug. And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck.  If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else.  I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was trying

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that

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