Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 07 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > >> > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to > >> > read info? > >> > >> You appear to be taking a po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Dale
Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]: > >> This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD, >> boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it >> install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]: > > This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD, > boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it > install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL > your software is already

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-06 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/2/6 Dirk Heinrichs : > Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:10:34 schrieb Chris Lieb: > >> I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge >> @kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away >> that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progr

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple architectures for portage CFLAGS?

2009-02-06 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daid kahl wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile libinstrudeo 0.1.4 on ~x86

2009-02-06 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > 2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: >> Dear guys, >> >> Here is a snippet from the compile problem: >> >> isdffmpegexporter.cpp: In member function 'virtual void >> ISDFFmpegExporter::cleanup()': >> isdffmpege

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Good luck! In case you can't get it working reliably, Newegg has an > 8gb CF card for $19.99 & free shipping :) Oops, never mind that part, I see you're in AU not US. My mistake! I am an American after all, sometimes we forget other countries

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of > photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the > backup...) but fortunately I was able to use a program to recover about > 170 photos.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read >> > info? >> >> You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the >> discussion. >> >> I know y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Dirk Heinrichs writes: >> >>> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: >>> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer >>> What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? >>> >>> *SCNR* >>> >> >> Thirty five reboots and several ho

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: I found what I think is the instructions I used before: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing which basically say to emerge debianutils The problem I'm seeing is that "make install" is including the version n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Harry Putnam wrote: Dirk Heinrichs writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? *SCNR* Thirty five reboots and several hours Sorry, can't resist as I am currently setti

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I > have grub menu of: > > * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) > * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) > * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... so I created a file: dd if=/dev/urandom of=Desktop/random.img bs=1024 count=500960 It has just occurred to me: In the UK you can be imprisoned for failing to provide an encryption key corresponding to this file. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I have grub menu of: * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > >> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: >> >>> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer >> >> What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? >> >> *SCNR* >> > > Thirty five reboots and sever

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: > >> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer > > What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? > > *SCNR* > Thirty five reboots and several hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read > > info? > > You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the > discussion. > > I know you are not incapable of installing emacs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: > Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? *SCNR* Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read > info? You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the discussion. I know you are not incapable of installing emacs and we both know you can read info without it quite well. S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]: > > Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI > installer ;) > No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read the documentation, bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read info?

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards writes: >> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee >> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. > > Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're > largely correct. There is entirely to much made of RMS. I don't know him personally and just a tiny bit

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing a bash

2009-02-06 Thread Dan Wallis
On 05/02/2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Hey guys.. random Linux question. > > If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to > is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing > it? Take a look at app-misc/screen. Although you do need to reme

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > >> for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled > >> to use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > >> for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to >> use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an >> IA64 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Frank Schwidom (schwi...@gmx.net) [06.02.09 19:43]: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote: > > I want to handle html-files like UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 files. > ??? Where, why, whatfor? I still not get it. -vv More context: Any specific app, any special purpose and what's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread b.n.
Frank Schwidom ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote: >> Frank Schwidom wrote: >>> Hi, >>> im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is >>> there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create >>> such a package, and how? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 2/6/09, Stroller wrote: > > > > On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote: > >> ... > >> Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially > >> solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Schwidom
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote: > Frank Schwidom wrote: >> Hi, >> im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is >> there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create >> such a package, and how? >> Regards > What exactly are you tr

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for AMD790GX/SB750

2009-02-06 Thread Yannick Mortier
2009/2/6 Dale : > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > If you are booted off a Gentoo CD and possibly others as well, lspci -v > can be a real good friend. It will tell you what drivers are being used > for what. Then just find those in the kernel config and enable those. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:10:34 schrieb Chris Lieb: > I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge > @kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away > that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my > emerge -u... world.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/6/09, Stroller wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote: >> ... >> Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially >> solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie >> mistakes. > > Have you run revdep-rebuild? Yes to revdep-rebuild -i and eme

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Drive Install

2009-02-06 Thread James
sean myfairpoint.net> writes: > Once you go through the steps instructed here, > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml cool > Can the live CD install be altered to work just like a normal Gentoo system? > I have managed to get my hands on a 16GB flash drive, and am thinking of > trying it o

[gentoo-user] Re: Using portage through NFS

2009-02-06 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > I have read the guide on gentoo-wiki about setting up portage to work > over NFS[0] and have it mostly working. I have two issues that I would > like to work out: > > 1) I use sync-eix to update portage and my overlays (via layman

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage wrote: >>> I'd wager to think that if we did use HTML, we'd simply argue >>> about the order of it's presentation or use of bold and >>> underlines. >>> >> >> And let's not forget Flashing Text! (shudder). >> >> > Oh no, it's 1999's geocities all over again!

[gentoo-user] Re: testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread James
Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > Does that mean my memory card is good to go, or should I use some other > method of bad sector detection? Hello Iain, Hard to tell. Even repeated memory tests may/maynot find your gremlin, i.e. bad memory. Also, just because it failed once, does not me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Saphirus Sage
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage wrote: > > > Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on > just about anything, searched and either split into chapters > or presented as a single page. > The cynic in me says that it's because

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage wrote: Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single page. >>> >>> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee >>> invented HTML, not Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for AMD790GX/SB750

2009-02-06 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with > AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets? > > Especially what to specify for > > SATA > Audio > network device > > > Many thanks for a hint or pointer. > Helmut. > > If you are booted off a Gentoo CD and possibl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Saphirus Sage
On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if you don't know what y

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote: ... Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie mistakes. Have you run revdep-rebuild? Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 Feb 2009, at 13:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single page. AIUI info pages are compiled from Texinfo source and thus can be automagically produ

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread AllenJB
Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi, im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create such a package, and how? Regards What exactly are you trying to do? LANG usually specifies the language you want software to

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 Konsole Title

2009-02-06 Thread Chris Lieb
I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge @kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my emerge -u... world. In fact, it only showed the user name and directory that I was cu

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know > exactly what you are looking for, you are lost. And you can > never sure in which part they hid the information you are > looking for. Oh - and the navigation? A nightmare. Exaclty! > I p

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 06 February 2009 12:36:37 Arttu V. wrote: > Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially > solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie > mistakes. Well, you did ask |-) I think I'd start by looking for -C assignment in kxkb. A quick way to

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if >> > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them ov

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more >> complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten >> it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if > > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over > > > quickly. > > > > The kde ioslave for info

[gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi, im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create such a package, and how? Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/6/09, Sebastian Günther wrote: > Some application does not capture ctrl+c, which is normaly the interupt > shortcut in bash. So it surely is passed down to bash which intrupts > startx, since it is the active job. > > I bet it won't happen with any Xsession started from any *dm. Thanks for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if > > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over > > > quickly. > > > > The kde ioslave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over > > quickly. > > The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you > move aroun

Re: [gentoo-user] Using portage through NFS

2009-02-06 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:16:36 -0600 Chris Lieb wrote: > 1) I use sync-eix to update portage and my overlays (via layman). I > want the client to still be able to run sync-eix, but have it only run > `emerge --metadata` (no `emerge --sync` or `layman --sync ALL`). What > do I need to change in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Arttu V. (arttu...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 13:37]: > Hello, > > > For example, KOrganizer edit menus still show shortcuts for copy, > paste, etc as ctrl+something (ctrl+c for copy). However, when I'm > adding a new event or todo and press ctrl+c to copy some text around > -- boom, X closes itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2009 14:36:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what > > you are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part > > they hid the information y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 06 February 2009 14:36:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what > you are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part > they hid the information you are looking for. Oh - and  the navigation? A > nightma

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config for AMD790GX/SB750

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with > AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets? > > Especially what to specify for > > SATA AHCI. Please set ahci mode in bios. > Audio repends on the chip used. Probably a hda realtek. In th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote: > for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to > use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an > IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the > kernel, or modul

[gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Arttu V.
Hello, I'm currently googling around for some insight into an extremely annoying feature (or a bug?) which appeared with KDE 4.2, and/or the xorg-server upgrade to 1.5.3-r2 that I did along with the kde upgrade. The problem reveals itself when I press ctrl+c in some KDE applications and that it tu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more > > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten > > it unless you take features off from bash

[gentoo-user] Wacom Serial Digitizer ll UD-0608-R, Help

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have the above tablet and have been trying to get it working with Gentoo. The problem seems to be that the kernel driver is USB and all instructions I can find seem to concentrate on the USB versions of Wacom products. I am using: Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop,

[gentoo-user] kernel config for AMD790GX/SB750

2009-02-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets? Especially what to specify for SATA Audio network device Many thanks for a hint or pointer. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen,

[gentoo-user] Partially solved: Cannot compile libinstrudeo 0.1.4 on ~x86

2009-02-06 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.09-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: > 2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: > > > > Ok, this was the easy part. I deleted the & at the code, but new compile > problem appears. > > Does anybody knows, how to compile this stuff without

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile libinstrudeo 0.1.4 on ~x86

2009-02-06 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: > Dear guys, > > Here is a snippet from the compile problem: > > isdffmpegexporter.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void > ISDFFmpegExporter::cleanup()’: > isdffmpegexporter.cpp:208: error: cannot convert ‘ByteIOContext**’ to > ‘

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile libinstrudeo 0.1.4 on ~x86

2009-02-06 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Dear guys, After a long time, I try to use again screenkast + libinstrudeo. Ages before I did use it but nowadays (about in the last 6 months or more) I cannot compile libinstrudeo because there are some compiling problem. These packages are in the sunrise overlay. So, I guess there is a proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:11:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > If Grandma can easily use Google to find new shortcake recipes (an > entirely reasonable thing for Grandma to do in this day and age), then > it is not unreasonable for savvy users to have a look at the man page > and say > > "Oh look, thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 06 February 2009 10:57:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:46:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Man pages are mostly written as reference documents. Like technical > > specs, they tend to list the capabilities of the app without giving the > > "bigger picture overview" as tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people >> who don't >> read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something >> does not >> w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:46:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Man pages are mostly written as reference documents. Like technical > specs, they tend to list the capabilities of the app without giving the > "bigger picture overview" as that is assumed to be known. That's right,they tend to assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten > it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very powerful > shell. > > Same goes for my ot

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Dirk Uys wrote: > Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. > > I am currently waiting for "emerge -DuvaNe systemsettings" to finish, > Ill keep the list up to date on my success. > > Regards > Dirk > Even re-emerging half of my system didn't resolve the problem. I