[gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. Maxim Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your

[gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, $eix kde gives: ... * kde-base/kde Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 Installed: 3.5.2 Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE - merge this to pull in all non-developer kde-base/* packages ... And

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, $eix kde gives: ... * kde-base/kde Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 Installed: 3.5.2 Homepage:http

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schrieb: Hi group, $eix kde gives: did you do an update-eix? yes kde-4 ist masked. THink thats why it doesn show up. What does ls /usr/portage/kde-base/ says? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /usr/portage/kde-base/ akregator

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 before going any farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with it. Want my package.keywords and package.unmask files. Assuming a question. Yes, I'd like to see them.

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - play soxio: Failed reading `-': unknown file type and without the hyphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
compile it, run it like ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - This works, sort of. Sounds like a dentist drill going in an out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out | aplay -t raw -f cdr Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Big Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
compile it, run it like ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. OK, got it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ sox -t nul /dev/null sine.wav synth 10.0 sine 440.0 | aplay sine.wav Playing WAVE 'sine.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2452.html -- Yeah, I found that. It's going into the queue. gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
#EXTM3U #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 82.4 Hz;164.8 Hz;247.2 Hz;329.6 Hz tone://82.407;164.814;247.221;329.628 #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 110.0 Hz;220.0 Hz;330.0 Hz;440.0 Hz tone://110.000;220.000;330.000;440.000 #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 146.8 Hz;293.7 Hz;440.5 Hz;587.3 Hz

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I http://www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/elex $ gcc -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c tonegen.c:56:31: machine/soundcard.h: No such file or directory tonegen.c: In function `main': tonegen.c:172: error: `SNDCTL_DSP_GETFMTS'

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in audacious-plugins Seems to be a different file than www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c -mw Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
something like this should do it: gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c Yup. Thanks Iain. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 before going any farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with it. Want my package.keywords and package.unmask files. Ok, I copied over your files. Ran #update-eix and #eix-sync. Then #emerge autounmask and ran #autounmask

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:20:48PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: speaker-test 0.0.8 Hum, that is rather old. Try upgrading alsa? The stable, unless you are on mips, is at least 1.0.14 Do you mean alsa-utils. Here's alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
That's not the split method. Since you chose the split packages you need: kde-base/kde-meta:kde-4 d'oh! Add that version to package.keywords. Stable users will need ~arch keywords for a few dependencies of KDE 4. Ok, I ran #emerge -avD kde-base/kde-meta:kde-4 eight times and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
Q: You said I could install KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0, but they block each other! This is my ideal. Having to ditch kde while I emerge 700M over an eight mile phone line(~70 hours, not including compile times)is way too long unless I can do it incrementally over several nights AND keep my desktop for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
The above keeps coming up over and over. So, I'll have to leave it here until I get more info. -mw more info: I ran # autounmask kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0 again and this time these blocks appeared. [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-esd (is blocking media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r1) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
Not sure if that's what you want, but speaker-test from alsa-utils can generate sine waves, pink and white noise. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ speaker-test -t 2 speaker-test 0.0.8 Playback device is plughw:0,0 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Sine wave rate is 440.Hz But it's

[gentoo-user] alsa-utils speaker-test question

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, speaker-test runs but makes no sound: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/elex $ speaker-test -t 2 speaker-test 0.0.8 Playback device is plughw:0,0 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Sine wave rate is 440.Hz Unless I do this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/elex $ speaker-test -c2

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-25 Thread maxim wexler
Which is rather pointless given that the KDE docs provides example package.{keywords,unmask} files... http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml Thanks for this. The link from kde.org goes to a page dated Dec 11 2007 which doesn't mention v4.0. I did what it said using the

[gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After running emerge -uD alsa-utils I ran revdep-rebuild and was greeted by page after page of this ... broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkabc_newexchange.so.1.0.0 (requires libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0 libexpat.so.0

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!FIXED?

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
Do I really have to unmerge kde-env and then emerge 119M just to get my sound card back? No, this brings the tunes: localhost elex # fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: heathen 28869 F...m artsd heathen

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
Oops, it seems that you haven't updated in a while Long while good time to 'emerge --update --deep world'. Yow! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pvuD world Just the blocks: ... [blocks B ] dev-java/java-config-1.3 (is blocking dev-java/java-config-wrapper-0.14) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
So start updating. Your box is almost hopelessly outdated. I knew it would catch up with me eventually. But my connection is so slow I've just been emerging packages and installing from tarballs as required and ignoring the big updates. Now I'm in a big hole. -uD world gives: ... Total: 353

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
so what, start the update in one terminal, start -fu in another one. That way the packages are downloaded, while others compile. No time wasted. Stuck. One last blocker can't be removed: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) Total: 351

Re: [gentoo-user] audio gone!

2008-01-26 Thread maxim wexler
--- Couldn't find 'eselect' to unmerge. No packages selected for removal by unmerge FWIW from emerge.log 1201417088: === Unmerging... (app-admin/eselect-1.0.2) 1201417089: unmerge success: app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 1201417089: *** exiting successfully. 1201417089: *** terminating.

Re: [gentoo-user] Depgraph failure WAS audio gone!

2008-01-27 Thread maxim wexler
--- Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: ... [blocks B ] =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3) emerge --unmerge eselect-opengl eselect emerge --oneshot eselect eselect

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up after overdue -uD world

2008-01-27 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Well I went ahead and applied Willie's suggestion for eselect to foomatic, which I don't use anyway and this time emerge -uD world looks like a go. There's one 'Fetch Restriction' but a little wiki tell's me this will be taken care of in due course. Thank's to Iain suggestion to fetch

[gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build

2008-01-28 Thread maxim wexler
/portage/dev-perl:IO-Socket-SSL-1.12:20080128-214330.log'. * * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 132 info files. * IMPORTANT: 34 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build

2008-01-28 Thread maxim wexler
Read this guide carefully and follow it to the letter: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml deeper and deeper... It is safe to remove the older GCC version at this time. If you feel the need, please issue the following command (as usual, substitute =sys-devel/gcc-3.4* with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build

2008-01-28 Thread maxim wexler
gcc-config is set to use 3.4.6, which you have just removed. Run gcc-config to fix this. Done. But -uD world still barfs at the same place: ERROR: dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 failed. * Call stack: *ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile *ebuild.sh, line 1039:

Re: [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Would somebody look over the following and suggest a fix? I *did* try 'USE=build but got same error, same place. Emerging (24 of 235) dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 to / waiting for lock on /usr/portage/distfiles/.locks/.IO-Socket-SSL

Re: [gentoo-user] leapfrogging versions

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202459 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Bingo! And awaay we go! Thanks Volker

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: Unable to build FIXED

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote: Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this one. I'm sure that you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but don't know off hand what it takes to do it. (I am sure that the forums are full of

[gentoo-user] pam upgrade issue

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Now emerge -uD world barfs at pam-0.99 and directs me to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml Here, among other things, it says to edit certain files, but it doesn't say which ones? Unless it means all of the ones under /etc/pam.d/ I checked several of them and

[gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, The gentoo pam-0.99 update guide says something like it's safe to remove /etc/pam.d/*. It should say you _must_ remove /etc/pam.d/*. So that hurdle was cleared emerge -uD world continued then this: ... groupadd: PAM authentication failed * * ERROR: net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.9.8 failed.

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
Did you log out and back in again first? Well, I just did and now I can't log back on. I enter my user name, hit enter and it doesn't even ask for my password, just says login incorrect, repeats that two times and says my three chances are up. PAM was emerged but maybe it wasn't activated, or

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the docs page on the upgrade to pam-0.99 is complete, I updated severala machines no problem with it. So you must have muffed the instructions. Next time, read the whole page. While I was waiting I went back to the page and decided I

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-30 Thread maxim wexler
--- Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-emerge shadow and you should be able to login. Yup, thanks! After that you'll need to reinstall services like sshd that have files in /etc/pam.d/ they seem to have started But now, startx fails: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 45: startkde:

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: startkde is not in your $PATH. It's normal location is /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde Either use an explicit full path to the binary or update your PATH Actually, startkde doe not exist on my machine. Probably cause I'm in the midst of upgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
I'd be more worried why you don't have a /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r5/modules.dep. never have $ls /lib/modules 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 Look into your /etc/modules.d/ and modprobe.conf and see what's there. it's fixed Maxim, I've been watching your posts for

[gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, 7 more pkgs to fetch -- 42 more to compile Thanks to everyone's help I'm starting to get the hang of it. There's been a lot of die messages but I've been able to overcome them, sometimes on my own! But here's a tangle I can't sort out: Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
nazgul / # eix ^pam | grep sys-auth Hmm, on my machine the top of the list says that there is an invalid line in package.keywords: =kde-base/kde-passwd-4.0.0:kde-4 You have a operator but we can't find a version-part I think that was part of a list someone lent me. But this is the first that I

Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
If it's any consolation, I knwo what this feels like. I too have done emerge world on a box that hadn't seen the internet for almost a year. That was painful too :-) I'm always online but my bandwidth is so narrow downloading anything takes over the entire stream -- can't even answer

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-01-31 Thread maxim wexler
What does 'emerge -p qt' say? I think it lists the use flags. I think the 'threads' use flag should be something else. I guess I wasn't clear. emerge -p qt doesn't mention 'threads' so I added it: USE=threads emerge -v qt. According to the HOWTO or wiki or ? USE=threads is legit. And portage

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
Did qca-tls emerge properly yet? No, but this bit is new: Configuring qca-tls ... Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 development utilities. You may download them either from

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/qt3to4 ?

2008-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Anybody familiar with qt3to4? From doctrolltech.com/4.0/porting4.html To port code from Qt 3 to Qt 4: 1. Briefly read the porting notes below to get an idea of what to expect. They must mean up to number 6. because this page is certainly not brief 2. Be sure that your

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/qt3to4 ?

2008-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
This sounds like a tool for developers who use the Qt libraries to develop applications - if they've developed their app against Qt3, and they want to port it to Qt4, this is the steps they would take with their application source code in order to do so. Yah, I'm just trying to emerge -uD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler writes: Configuring qca-tls ... Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail Unable to find Qt mkspecs. Please set QTDIR manually. Perhaps you need to install Qt 3 development utilities. You may download

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle FIXED

2008-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
I would emerge Qt-3. You may continue your world update with emerge --resume afterwards. That did it! Seven days, one hour and 28 minutes after I started, -uD world is complete! mw Looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mateusz Mierzwinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Total: 246 packages (201 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 38 new, 6 in new slots), Size of downloads: 1,047,420 kB Man, those must be tiny packages. I just completed -uD world which took 351 packages totalling ~800M Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
Don't forget: etc-update, revdep-rebuild tools. HTH. Rumen At the end of an emerge process I saw two recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It seems pretty significant with 100+ updates pending. Do you recall the full name? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
modules-update if you have out-of-tree kernel modules env-update follwed by '. /etc/profile/ to avoid the hassle of logging out and back in just to update the environment possibly conf-update which does the same thing as etc-update, just with a much nicer ui that is easier to see

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread maxim wexler
Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he Now that I've thought about it more I recall it didn't specify a command, what it said was something like there are n files in /etc that have changed then something like see man emerge for further

[gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the group had? Oh, and

[gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but it's just a run of the mill, noisy, substandard unit. No SATA, no PCI-E

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd if=partition-to-be-copied of=partition-to-be-copied-to bs=varies mw

[gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-01 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Notice in the following portage has nothing to say about blockers following a warning from revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an earlier version of python but without the -u switch is content to re-emerge the newer package which I already have on my system. This was all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
well, I buyed hardware over 40 times on ebay - and I was always a very satisfied costumer. From mainboards, cpus to tapedrives and libs, I always got the right stuff. Me too. This has been my first experience of outright fraud. I've been shipped the wrong stuff or broken stuff but the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
From what you've told us it's possible that the seller didn't look inside the box and assumed it was a new PSU, after their spouse tidied the old one up into an empty box. Certainly, I always keep packaging in case I need to make a warranty return, and in the case that a PC is

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want to make a backup (just in case): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 [

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
The best format for line drawings is a vector format like svg. With a vector format the image can be scaled to any size and still stay sharp. Can it be viewed by someone who only has Explorer? A bitmap with lossless compression like png is tolerable. Please don't use jpeg. It uses

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
python. So you *should* be able to unmerge the old one. If something does break... then file a bug at b.g.o. It want's to grab both of them. How do I move 2.4.4.r6 to the protected column? Or should I? Is this a good place to use the operator? localhost heathen # emerge -pC python These

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
quickpkg =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 done then run python-updater localhost heathen # python-updater * Can't determine any previous Python version(s). Now do emerge -avuND world ... [blocks B ] app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 (is blocking app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2) ... So, localhost heathen #

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
Are you using kde-4.0.x or why do you have kde-3.5.7. Tried to update to kde-4.0.x near the end of January. This was after almost two years of not updating anything. This led to a emerge -uD world which took about a week over my string-and-can modem. Many, many failure to build errors kept me

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion--FIXED

2008-03-03 Thread maxim wexler
Now do emerge -avuND world to make sure everything is up to date followed by emerge -av --depclean and revdep-rebuild ... Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Amen. Be a

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-03 Thread maxim wexler
Been working with xcircuit. It saves in PS but can be made into a jpeg which looked just as sharp as the original. If you zoom into that jpeg fat enough you will see pixillation. I don't think this will be the case with the postscript file, which is indeed a vector (or

[gentoo-user] [OT] firefox fonts

2008-03-04 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, 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 and side bar.

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

2008-03-06 Thread maxim wexler
- menu bar and side bar. Nothing in customize toolbar about changing font size. To change the fonts of firefox itself, you could use gtk-chtheme. No need. The next time I rebooted my old fonts were back. mw

[gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that I'm not alone. Can somebody recommend a

[gentoo-user] (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected

2008-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I get this error when I attempt startx. I have a legacy AGP Rage128, ATI card and the driver is compiled into the kernel to allow for the framebuffer. So far I've emerged vf86-video-ati and then, in desperation, xf86-video-vga without success. I don't see anything else under

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected-RESOLVED?

2008-04-11 Thread maxim wexler
, but why it doesn't crash the server is beyond me. --- maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I get this error when I attempt startx. I have a legacy AGP Rage128, ATI card and the driver is compiled into the kernel to allow for the framebuffer. So far I've emerged vf86-video

[gentoo-user] [OT] Strange crash while setting up new box

2008-04-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I've never seen this before: I needed a new mobo but I wanted to keep the cpu so I got another socket 754, an AsRock K8Upgrade-N3, which has a 939 option. I also got a new video card to go with it, a GeForce FX5500. I also got a new PS, an Enermax 400 Liberty. So I put it together

[gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-15 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, For AsRock K8-N3 mobo: From lspci: 00:06.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2) But there doesn't seem to be any kernel option covering this. It's not forcedeth, that one doesn't work. Anybody using one of these ethernet devices successfully? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-15 Thread maxim wexler
OK, by a process of elimination, I've decided I need to configure and install mii.ko to get my ethernet working. Also, just noticed this little bit: udev: renamed eth0 to eth1. Why did it do that? --- maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, For AsRock K8-N3 mobo: From lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:57:43 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Also, just noticed this little bit: udev: renamed eth0 to eth1. Why did it do that? Because you have a udev rule to do this? Take a look in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:54:53 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Also, just noticed this little bit: udev: renamed eth0 to eth1. Why did it do that? Because you have a udev rule to do this? Take a look in /etc/udev/rules.d/70

Re: [gentoo-user] you have cruft in /proc remove it

2008-04-17 Thread maxim wexler
Here's a useful discussioin: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-254197-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-findcruft-start-50.html --- Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anybody know where the message you have cruft in /proc remove it comes from and what to do about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] you have cruft in /proc remove it

2008-04-17 Thread maxim wexler
First: Don't top post! Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see at a glance which is the original and which the reply. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.

Re: [gentoo-user] ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

2008-04-18 Thread maxim wexler
Yes, but then udev sees that eth0 is already allocated to another card so makes this one eth1. Just delete the file as mentioned previously to have udev forget about the old card and start again with eth0. What file? Cause now I'm getting this: localhost heathen # dmesg|grep eth0

Re: Top posting (Was Re: [gentoo-user] you have cruft in /proc remove it)

2008-04-18 Thread maxim wexler
--- Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schrieb: First: Don't top post! Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see at a glance which is the original and which the reply. Irrelevant! I answered you below, what happens when you answer again

[gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux

2008-05-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. Maxim Be a better friend, newshound, and

[gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season. I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there. What can the group recommend? I only need something that will give me about a minute's head

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Tue, 5/13/08, PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 4:51 AM Arthur Britto wrote: You likely want more than a minute. Most likely, you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. been following this page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_APCUPSD Kernel seems to have all the right stuff... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv apcupsd These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation

2008-05-16 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Fri, 5/16/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:21 PM On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler

[gentoo-user] apcaccess test fails

2008-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, according to the manual, setting NETSERVER on and NISPORT to 3551 in apcupsd.conf should allow me to run apcaccess test. However, this is what I get: localhost heathen # apcaccess test FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 326 Unknown command test LOCKFILE is set to /var/lock as per

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Sun, 5/25/08, Sebastian Magri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sebastian Magri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 1:49 AM 2008/5/25 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On

[gentoo-user] [OT] installing firefox 3 from tarball

2008-06-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, digg.com announces this is firefox download day, so I got the tarball and unwrapped in my home dir. According to this http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options I'm supposed to make a .mozconfig file first then, not sure, run ./mozconfig? It doesn't say. Doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-23 Thread maxim wexler
Which will destroy your flash device in as little as a couple of months (voice of experience here), and it probably the reason the option was removed. Ulp! Here's my line from fstab: /dev/sdb1 /usbauto noauto,user,rw,exec,sync0 0 Copied from a forum

Re: [gentoo-user] boot error

2007-07-23 Thread maxim wexler
--- James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have several new portables to install. On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic installation (no X, KDE ) The installation ran to completion. The installation process declared itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-11 Thread maxim wexler
--- Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Some people I know use gentoo and have no idea packages.gentoo.org even exist. That's true. I am one of this people. Yeah, what's the deal? I've been syncin' and 'mergin', no

[gentoo-user] OT-hacking vim syntax highlighting

2007-08-11 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I'm not happy with the highlighting scheme for assembler files in vim(non X). I've tried all the *asm.vim files in the syntax dir but they all suck. When you google dot vim the dot part is ignored. Supposedly, the *.vim files can be edited. But how? Anybody got a link to a faq? The

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-20 Thread maxim wexler
--- purple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason automounting on a new gentoo install with KDE don't work.. i tried numerous forums but didnt found the right answer, even tried ivman and autofs but neither of'em don't work as i expect them too. hal-0.5.9.1-r1, dbus-1.0.2-r2,

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-21 Thread maxim wexler
--- purple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/fstab: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 noatime,data=journal 0 1 /dev/hdb5noneswap sw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread maxim wexler
pardon me if you've already tried this: does the LiveCD/InstallCD boot? And can you mount the usb stick then? Then you can probe the hardware using the LiveCD/InstallCD tools, cat /proc/..., lsusb, dmesg etc to get some clues. Leastwise you'll know that it's not a hardware problem. Maxim ---

[gentoo-user] Is this drive toast?

2007-09-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just noticed this in dmesg: snip hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError

[gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-24 Thread maxim wexler
Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS to boot from the 2nd drive. And updating grub and fstab, of course. mw

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