Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread Sundance
I heard Mark Bainter said: Look. If you like what redhat and other distros are doing why don't you use those distros? I'm not trying to be mean, it's an honest question. I don't know about Carlos, but here's my own reason. I use Gentoo to save time. All in all, I'm freaking tired of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 RAM

2003-03-30 Thread Sundance
I heard nealbirch said: It's not just kde, I use window maker now ( I do have kde installed thought) and have the same problem with GL. I use a nvidia card, btw IIRC, the NVidia drivers are known to leak memory at every turn. You may want to try to take the X session down, rmmod the NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] avifile black sheep

2003-03-27 Thread Sundance
I heard Francesco Talamona said: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux- gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lartsc Known issue. It's an aRts installation bug. Here's an easy workaround: ln -s /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartsc.so /usr/lib/libartsc.so (As root.) It should fix the

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Sundance
I heard M. Robert Martin said: Anyway, just thought I'd share. Hope it's useful. Rob, this looks great! I hope this will make it to the next GWN! Any empirical comments to make about the compared quality of ps2pdf and Distiller? It might be much easier to slip your solution past the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv

2003-03-23 Thread Sundance
I heard Mike Williams said: That's a nasty workaround, I'd be inclined to check and fix /etc/env.d/49kdelibs-3.1 /etc/env.d/56kdedir-3.1 (or similar), run 'env-update source /etc/profile ldconfig'. Well, I don't remember this helped any in my case (the paths /are/ fine already), but I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound in Quake3 after ALSA

2003-03-17 Thread Sundance
I heard Dhruba Bandopadhyay said: /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp Did you emerge alsa-oss? It's the emulation layer that allows OSS-only apps (such as Quake 3, apparently) to work with /dev/dsp like they're used to doing. -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop the madness.

2003-03-15 Thread Sundance
Just to play. :) I heard Nicholas Hockey said: oh and all of you can flame me if you like but i will never like that bloated, True, but not as much as people who didn't actually look into it will tell you, thanks to its very modular design. non-standard, Untrue.

Re: [gentoo-user] queue overflow

2003-03-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Peter Ruskin said: Mar 14 12:49:20 penguin kernel: _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux % grep -r putnext * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux % Did you compile anything specific into your kernel? Something related to XFS maybe, since it

Re: [gentoo-user] Cache problem, again?

2003-03-12 Thread Sundance
Okay, problem solved. Here's what I ended up doing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % locate gtk+-1.2.10-r10 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 /usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/files/digest-gtk+-1.2.10-r10 /usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/gtk+-1.2.10-r10.ebuild

[gentoo-user] Cache problem, again?

2003-03-11 Thread Sundance
Howdy, gentle penguins and penguinettes, Okay, so I've been having emerge -up issues for a few days now. Here's the matter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - aux_get(): (3) Error in

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound

2003-03-07 Thread Sundance
I heard Alexander Futasz said: That sound chip does indeed not seem to support hardware PCM mixing, which would allow several sounds to be played at the same time, so the mixing has to be done in software. Are you sure? Nope. :) I just don't think I remember it working in Windows, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kdelibs

2003-03-05 Thread Sundance
I heard Joel Wright said: As I said, I have gcc3.2.2 and qt3.1.1 installed. qt3.1.1seems to live in /usr/qt/3/lib (i never had a version of qt prior to 3.1.0 installed). Bah, you're right, it was just me talking out of my a**: Qt 3.1 indeed lives in /usr/qt/3/. Well, I really don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use

2003-03-04 Thread Sundance
I heard Mitch said: does this work also good for writing X (graphical) programs? It works -great-. Check out PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/ -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade ?

2003-02-22 Thread Sundance
I heard raptor said: USE=-qt -kde but still have kde-stuff here.. !! WHY ? Add -arts to your USE variable. HTH, -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]

2003-02-19 Thread Sundance
I heard Phil Barnett said: If I have a room full of several differing servers and I'm and admin, the last thing I want to have to remember in the heat of the moment is how to do something on _this_ machine. Hmm, then I'd say it's pretty much -your- responsibility, not Gentoo's, to add this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Ralf Kessler said: and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...

2003-02-15 Thread Sundance
I heard Jorge Almeida said: I have that version of XFree and also no joy... Okay, so it is weird. There has just been a power outage, and when it went back up, KDM took 30 seconds to load here too. I'm now officially confused. :) Hmm, after some experimentation, it would seem that wiping out

Re: [gentoo-user] What really needs qt-2.3.2-r1?

2003-02-13 Thread Sundance
I heard Paul de Vrieze said: The culprit is unixODBC ... Hmm, question: how did you discover the culprit? Did you check all out all the ebuilds (ouch), or is there a more convenient way? I have a couple of redundant packages installed (libglade 0.17 and 2.0.1, glib 2.2.5 and 1.2.10...), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Where Are COMPLETE stages?!

2003-02-13 Thread Sundance
worry. See below. After extracting these tar balls, it is not located in ANY of the /bin or /sbin directories anywhere in the system. sundance@byblos ~ % wget ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/\ releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 [...] 21:41:21 (51.27 KB/s) - « stage3

Re: [gentoo-user] mother board recommendations

2003-02-07 Thread Sundance
I heard brett holcomb said: Yes, but I don't want to stack the deck against myself by using VIA G. For the records, I've been using a VIA-based MB for over a year without a single problem. It would seem that the KT333 chipsets are a considerable improvement over the previous series.