Re: [gentoo-user] @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:09:34 + (UTC), James wrote: > 'autounmask kde-4.2' did not work. So autounmask does not understand sets. Either append the set file to package.keywords cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with xorg-server-1.5.2, hal and synaptics on a Samsung NC10

2009-03-09 Thread Dragos Petre
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Daniel Pielmeier < daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/6 Dragos Petre : > > > > Thanks, Daniel! Just tried it - commented out altogether the synaptics > > section in the 10-x11-input.fdi section but I get exactly the same > result. > > Anybody other id

Re: [gentoo-user] @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:09:34 + (UTC), James wrote: > > 'autounmask kde-4.2' did not work. > > So autounmask does not understand sets. Either append the set file to > package.keywords > > cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4 directory

2009-03-09 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2009/3/5 Evgeniy Bushkov : > > He already told us that he unmerged python. > > If you have successfully migrated to python 2.5 you should normally be > able to remove this directory as this are probably leftovers from the > old install wher

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4 directory

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:56:22 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > The only remaining contents was two broken symlinks in the > site-packages directory. I proceeded and manually removed the > directory. I'm not expecting any problems, was just wondering why > portage didn't remove this empty directories for me?

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > 'autounmask kde-4.2' did not work. > So autounmask does not understand sets. Either append the set file to > package.keywords Ok, On my next 4.2.x kde install, I'll try this approach with autounmask. > cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread James
Robin Atwood attglobal.net> writes: > Another approach is: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~*" emerge -pv --columns @kde-4.2 | awk '{ print $4 " ~*" }' > > kde4 > which worked for me. (You will have to top'n'tail the output a bit.) OK, This is an interesting approach. So if I use a very restricted subset

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

2009-03-09 Thread Grant
>> Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to >> plug-and-play with one of those modems.  Do you remember the names of >> the kernel modules?  I've never used PPP software before.  Can you >> recommend a package? > > You need usbserial and the Novatel modems use the option

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp connection problem

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 17:20, Moshe Kamensky wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to help my father install gentoo on a new computer (I am > across the ocean). We have a problem with the internet connection. He > has an adsl account. He runs pppoe-start, and it says that he is > connected. ifconfig shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Grant wrote: >>> Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to >>> plug-and-play with one of those modems. Do you remember the names of >>> the kernel modules? I've never used PPP software before. Can you >>> recommend a package? >> >> You

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local > network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I > might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and > bzip2. How will rsync interact with those

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I get the feeling we're all hacking our own install semantics here for kde-4.2. I find the -meta packages very helpful. Instead of pulling in all of KDE (with tons of stuff I don't need), I simply emerged those: kde-base/ark kde-base/kate kde-ba

[gentoo-user] openvz-sources & Athlon64/X2 -> kernel panic !

2009-03-09 Thread Jarry
Hi, does anyone have openvz-sources kernel working with athlon64/x2 ? I downloaded last stable sources, configured (I did not change a lot from default config), compiled, installed. But whenever I boot, I get kernel panic. Messages are scrolled up very fast, but I captured something with my video

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-09 Thread Hung Dang
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and bzip2. How will rsync

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: >> cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords >> Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a copy of the sets >> file in there (or a symlink to the sets file). This is the more >> managea

[gentoo-user] Broken binary and revdep-rebuild doesn't find it.

2009-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
rea...@gentoo ~ $ ldd /usr/lib64/NX/bin/* | grep "not found" libXcomp.so.3 => not found libXcompext.so.3 => not found libXcompshad.so.3 => not found libXcomp.so.3 => not found So today's update of glibc seems to have broken those binaries. However, running revdep-

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-09 Thread Saphirus Sage
Hung Dang wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: >> >>> I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local >>> network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I >>> might be able to save some time and space if I incorpora

[gentoo-user] Re: ppp connection problem

2009-03-09 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Daniel da Veiga [09/03/09 12:33]: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 17:20, Moshe Kamensky > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to help my father install gentoo on a new computer (I am > > across the ocean). We have a problem with the internet connection. He > > has an adsl account. He runs pppoe-start,

[gentoo-user] Re: ppp connection problem

2009-03-09 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Mike Kazantsev [09/03/09 06:15]: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:20:32 -0400 > Moshe Kamensky wrote: > > > We called the ISP, and from their side it seems that he is connected, > > and everything is fine. I don't know where else to look. The log > > messages showed in the beginning messages of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ppp connection problem

2009-03-09 Thread Dale
Moshe Kamensky wrote: > > > Thanks. As far as I understand, the should be the name > of a file in /etc/ppp/peers? If so, this is probably something he should > create. > > That can be created using pppconfig if I recall correctly. I also noticed pppoe-setup in case that may be of interest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:33 + (UTC), James wrote: > > cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > > Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a copy of the sets > > file in there (or a symlink to the sets file). This is the more > > manageable option. > Interes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ppp connection problem

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 19:06, Moshe Kamensky wrote: > * Daniel da Veiga [09/03/09 12:33]: >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 17:20, Moshe Kamensky >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am trying to help my father install gentoo on a new computer (I am >> > across the ocean). We have a problem with the internet

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > James wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I get the feeling we're all hacking our own > > install semantics here for kde-4.2. > > I find the -meta packages very helpful. Instead of pulling in all of > KDE (with tons of stuff I don't need), I simply em

[gentoo-user] Re: @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > The Gentoo approach has always been to handle package.keywords yourself, > autounmask is an unofficial utility. I hope there will be the facility to > add a set to the file in future. good to know. > It's always been like that (well, for a very long time

[gentoo-user] Nokia/TrollTech's Qt Eclipse Plug-in

2009-03-09 Thread BRM
Does anyone have an e-build for the Nokia/TrollTech Qt Eclipse Plug-in? http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/eclipse-integration TIA, Ben

[gentoo-user] LTSP 5 on Gentoo

2009-03-09 Thread Joseph
Is anybody running LTSP 5 on Gentoo? I know it is possible to install it but not without a pain :-/ I was able to find this documentation but I think it is out of date: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/LTSP -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7

Re: [gentoo-user] netcard interface with alias

2009-03-09 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 3/2/09 4:10 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 7 networks behind a machine with 5 network's device. Now, this machine running debian, but i'll upgrade too gentoo. How i can create a eth0:1, for example, using /etc/conf.d/net? Thanks -BEGIN PGP S