Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Gunnar Wrobel
Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm ... what are you trying to achieve here? a) /usr/share/js isn't served by any of our standard webserver installs; files you place in here aren't downloadable Yes, sorry :) I already realized that it was a bad idea. b) web-based apps will expect

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
While I agree that it is certainly easier to keep the packages as UPSTREAM bundles them, I'm not convinced that this is always a good idea. If the effort is small, I'd rather patch the package to use the standard libraries and send the patch upstream. Not only because it's simply bad

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
But it is not very hard to avoid to hardwire these libs in your webapp :) This is the only thing I dislike. Mmm ... you'd be surprised, I think, about just how hard it actually is for PHP apps (and how expensive it is too). Another problem to consider is versioning of any shared libraries of

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Gunnar Wrobel
Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it is not very hard to avoid to hardwire these libs in your webapp :) This is the only thing I dislike. Mmm ... you'd be surprised, I think, about just how hard it actually is for PHP apps (and how expensive it is too). Guess I'm missing the

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
Thanks for making me aware of the issue. So let's hope for PHP5... No problem. I wish it was an idea we could implement. Alas, it's something that none of the scripting languages handle well. Even Ruby hasn't learned from the past mistakes in this area. Best regards, Stu --

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Sroka
Stuart Herbert wrote: Thanks for making me aware of the issue. So let's hope for PHP5... No problem. I wish it was an idea we could implement. Alas, it's something that none of the scripting languages handle well. Even Ruby hasn't learned from the past mistakes in this area. Ruby

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hrm ... all the code I've seen uses: require_gem package-name with no sign of version requirements passed around. How does Gems handle the versioning in the background? Best regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Adam Sroka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 February 2006

Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Sroka
Stuart Herbert wrote: Hrm ... all the code I've seen uses: require_gem package-name with no sign of version requirements passed around. How does Gems handle the versioning in the background? Best regards, Stu That code is implicitly saying use the latest version of package-name.

[gentoo-user] What does the use flag gtk for gcc?

2006-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I did a query for packages using the gtk use flag. I found gcc (3.4.4-r1) among these. Why? Baffled Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen settings

2006-02-23 Thread Rajat Gujral
Hi frino , steve i have added defaultdepth 24 to xorg.conf file but it still takes the resolution as 640 x 480 ... I have checked the control panel pheripherals display and there is only 1 resolution availiable nothing else .. Now what shld i do pls help me through it ... Thanx and rgds

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen settings

2006-02-23 Thread Rajat Gujral
hello all, I was just goin thru Xorg.0.log file and i notice that after doing startx some errors are being logged on the system ... I hope if someone know what exactly does this error means then please help me resolve it. Thanx in advance rgds rajat P.S. : Here with attached is the log file

[gentoo-user] amd64/x86

2006-02-23 Thread jarry
Hi, I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their compatibility: If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example precompiled game-binaries, or even some

[gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-02-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
I've been giving LUKS a try. I setup an encrypted partition on an external HD. Running cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/external_hd1 external_hd1 a device file /dev/mapper/external_hd1 is created. I can mount it on /mnt/external_hd1 and it works as expected. Now, guess what happens if I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen settings

2006-02-23 Thread Jerry Eastmanhouser
Well here is the thing...your getting a lot of errors in there with respect to the resolution. I took a snipit that I think is important here. (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00 kHz (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00 Hz (II) I810(0):

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Marton Gabor
Hi! I also have problems with suspend2. I emerged and compiled the latest suspend2-sources, boots fine, hubernates fine. But: I have a Intel HDA(alc880) audio card integrated, and I need to use the realtek audio pack to make it work which compiles alsa-drivers, alsa-utils, etc.(with

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread joaoemanuel1981
IMHO you could just use the rest of the disk (after the /boot [hda1] and swap [hda2]), but if you intend to get a /home (or anything), I usually use 10GB for / just in case (still at 50%, but you never know). I got two 40GB disks however, if I were you (and I'm not, so, you can just

[gentoo-user] Re: Errors compiling various ebuilds

2006-02-23 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Andrew Frink schrieb: On 2/9/06, Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. wrote: I am having problems compiling these ebuilds: dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02 dev-java/xerces-2.7.1 [2.6.2-r2] dev-java/xalan-2.7.0-r1 [2.6.0-r2] app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 [1.1.4-r1]

[gentoo-user] Re: Errors compiling various ebuilds

2006-02-23 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Richard Fish schrieb: On 2/4/06, Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am having problems compiling these ebuilds: dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02 dev-java/xerces-2.7.1 [2.6.2-r2] dev-java/xalan-2.7.0-r1 [2.6.0-r2] app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 [1.1.4-r1]

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread jarry
joaoemanuel1981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do i not understand why needs swap, if have 1GB of RAM? 1. because if you have 200GB disk, cutting 1 or 2GB for swap does not matter 2. because someone told me some apps want to allocate swap no matter how ram you have (I think it was someone from hp-ux

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread John Jolet
There are too damn many myths about swap out there. Like this one: Always configure twice as much swap as you have ram. Why? Why would I need more swap if I increased my ram? You need at least a little bit of swap for peak memory usage. Let's look at real numbers. Say, I am a bit low of ram

Re: [gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Frink
Daveto get tarpit support add the extensions USE flag when you emerge iptablescynyrOn 2/22/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi,I was reading about the TARPIT target in the man iptables documentation, and thought I'd like to give it a try.Unfortunately though, it seemsnot to be supported in

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Uwe Thiem wrote: 3. because it is always better to have too much ram/swap then too little Nnnnot always. There are circumstances when you do not want swap at all. This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. Your example of having a real-time responsive app

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Mike Myers
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:14 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: Hi everybody! I'm having problems with a laptop and the suspend2 patched kernel. It seems like whenever I suspend to ram, and then resume, the video doesn't come back. suspend2-sources? what video card? did

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 23 February 2006 19:25, Uwe Thiem wrote: End of rant. I think you should read this article http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/01/11/why-swap-is-good-even-with-tons-of-ram/ I don't know about you but since I started using an archck kernel, I have always seen my system actually using

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:26, Alexander Kirillov wrote: I already think Gentoo base system requirements are a bit heavy just having python in there. (I'm trying to run gentoo on my WRT54G 1.1; storage over nfs/nbd) It would be completely over-the-top to require Modula 3 support as

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Mike Myers
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/22/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! I'm having problems with a laptop and the suspend2 patched kernel. It seems like whenever I suspend to ram, and then resume, the video doesn't come back. More details please. (video card, which X11

[gentoo-user] Re: puzzled over why xrdb process hangs

2006-02-23 Thread James
Zac Slade krakrjak at volumehost.net writes: quickly running 'top' I find the culprit: krdb. I can kill it off and the sequence completes and the system is fine. But 'eix xrdb' reveals: x11-apps/xrdb Available versions: [M]1.0.1 Installed: none If it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread jarry
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are too damn many myths about swap out there. Like this one: Always configure twice as much swap as you have ram. Why? OT Well, it depends on how swap is handled by system. In linux, your total memory = physical memory + swap (as you wrote) A couple

Re: [gentoo-user] OT How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple years ago I got answer from HP, where they said with hp-ux: total memory = physical memory + (swap - physical memory) This of course is equivalent to: total memory = swap I'm not sure, but I think Windows NT also uses this. So practicaly the will be no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: puzzled over why xrdb process hangs

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 08:48, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: puzzled over why xrdb process hangs': Zac Slade krakrjak at volumehost.net writes: (Actually, me; I was @ his house) If you using the monolithic ebuilds, this binary will be provided by a different

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does wordpress require xterm?

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/22/06, Lance Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some tool that I should be using, or some additional emerge flag, that would help diagnose a problem like this? I tried masking the packages that were being brought in, to see if that would tell me which package had the dependency

[gentoo-user] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1438)

2006-02-23 Thread Jeff
Hey guys. The subject is the lovely error message I'm seeing after trying to get the nVidia drivers up and running on this card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/23/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suspending from X, using the klaptop application. I'm using the vesa driver for an intel video card. The vesa driver is pretty much the driver-of-last-resort. I would _not_ expect proper power management support from this. Try the i810

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/23/06, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is never true. Swap is *always* called for, and for a good reason. No, it isn't. For my single-user laptop with 2G of RAM, I actually prefer that the OOM kill any runaway process that is gobbling up RAM. My laptop disk (even at 7200rpm)

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86

2006-02-23 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/2/23, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: 2006/2/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their compatibility:

Re: [gentoo-user] dchp ebuild needs updated Manifest

2006-02-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:27, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Last night's sync/update: cathy ~ # emerge -uD world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcp-3.0.3-r3 [3.0.3-r2] cathy ~ # emerge -uD world

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Mike Myers
Richard Fish wrote: On 2/23/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suspending from X, using the klaptop application. I'm using the vesa driver for an intel video card. The vesa driver is pretty much the driver-of-last-resort. I would _not_ expect proper power management

Re: [gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] dchp ebuild needs updated Manifest

2006-02-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:34, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:27, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Last night's sync/update: cathy ~ # emerge -uD world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dave Nebinger wrote: You've got 2gb ram, yet you still need swap for hibernation. No, he doesn't. suspend2 could also write the memory to a file when hibernating. That said, I'd find it rather useless to write to a plain normal file, as you need to keep the space available anyway. And with

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2006-02-23 Thread Graham Murray
[rant mode] Many of the gstreamer plugins, but not all of them, have been updated (in ~x86) to 0.8.12. That some of them are still at 0.8.11 is causing an upgrade/download emerge loop. As all of these plugins are built from the same source but with different configure options, would it not be

[gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
ive been wondering this for a while. i know how to deal with masked packages, beit keyword masked or hardmasked, but ive googled and googled, and cant seem to find or figure out how to deal with masked packages that are missing keywords. there is a nice document in the wiki that explains masked

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:24, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86': On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: 2006/2/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, but I'm a little

[gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded dovecot the other day to 1.0.beta3 and I was altering the configuration file trying to get it to work when I discovered something disturbing: our passwords were being trasmitted unencrypted across the Internet! At least now I know it. You can gripe at me all you want, but I've

[gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
Im having a problem with LVM. I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 --- Volume group --- VG Name vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 3 Metadata Sequence No 9 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 5 Open LV 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:07, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Missing Keyword': ive been wondering this for a while. i know how to deal with masked packages, beit keyword masked or hardmasked, but ive googled and googled, and cant seem to find or figure out how

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Mike Myers
Just an update; I unmasked and emerged vbetool-0.3 and it installed and emerged just fine. I configured the /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf script to use it and now it works, but only if I use the hibernate command. If I use kde's klaptop monitor, it doesn't seem to use the hibernate script,

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
Use /etc/portage/package.keywords (with an actual keyword, instead of the default ~ARCH) or your local overlay. what is the actual keyword if it doesnt have one? just add it to my package.keywords file and add the arch to it? i dont see how that would work. However, a missing keyword (like

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan to write: PaperPort 6100 from: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html PaperPort 6100 Parport unsupported Most probably not supported. More details would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:22, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': I'm having a problem with LVM. I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 I have a logical volume inside that I tried to extend It now states 10.91

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
I'm using ext3 -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:41 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:22, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
CR Little wrote: It now states 10.91 GB for LV Size. This lv is mounted to /home when I ran lvextend –L+5.91G /dev/vg/home it extended the lv but when you run df-h it doesn’t show an increased size. Of course not - why should it? Increasing the size of an LV doesn't change the size of the

[gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
Install timezone-data-2006b into /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image/ category sys-libs ./zic -y ./yearistype -d /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image//usr/share/zoneinfo -L /dev/null africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica pacificnew etcetera factory

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Qv6
On Thursday 23 February 2006 02:22 pm, CR Little wrote: I'm having a problem with LVM. I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 --- Volume group --- VG Name vg VG Size 55.91 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE

[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Grant
How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of trying to download it? The only plugins listed in about:plugins are s-shockwave-flash and futuresplash. I do have acroread and gpdf installed. Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those in portage? - Grant --

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 February 2006 00:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: livecd gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo bin/bash chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error Your 32-but kernel can't run the 64-bit bash. You'll have to use a 64-bit kernel (or as 32-bit stage3, and then gradually

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:38, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword': Use /etc/portage/package.keywords (with an actual keyword, instead of the default ~ARCH) or your local overlay. what is the actual keyword if it doesnt have one? just add it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:58, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': I'm using ext3 A: Because it reverses the logical progression of the conversation. Q: Why shouldn't I top post? Aaaanyway, in your case, you've got two options: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': On Thursday 23 February 2006 00:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: livecd gentoo # chroot /mnt/gentoo bin/bash chroot: cannot run

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:27, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration': Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those in portage? kpdf :) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy --

Re: [gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Andrew, Thank you for the tip about TARPIT, the problem is now solved. To complete the fix I downloaded patch-o-matic-ng and the iptables source from netfilter.org: cd /usr/src svn co https://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter/trunk/patch-o-matic-ng svn co

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:27:18 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of trying to download it? The only plugins listed in about:plugins are s-shockwave-flash and futuresplash. I do have acroread and gpdf installed. Turn on USE-Flag nsplugin for

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:40, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': On Thursday 23 February 2006 00:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-23 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:16:35 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It happens as soon as I enter any one of the following lines: tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: prio 2 handle 1 fw flowid 1:20 [...] I then get the error message: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument We have an error

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:44, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan to write: On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan to write: PaperPort 6100 from:

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Alan
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:40:52PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:27, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration': Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those in portage? kpdf :) Or if you're a GNOME

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On 2/23/06 2:22 PM, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having a problem with LVM. I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 I have a logical volume inside that I tried to extend It now states 10.91 GB for LV

[gentoo-user] Trouble with openoffice2 starting up.

2006-02-23 Thread Dennis
I don't use OpenOffice very often. At some point, I seam to have upgraded some dependency that is causing OpenOffice not to work any longer. I was running openoffice-bin. I tried compiling the source to see if that fixed the problem but I still have the same issue. The Initial Screen loads up

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd error and pmu + other error

2006-02-23 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, seeing my /var/log/errors file, i've discovered two entries that i'm not understanding at all: syslog-ng[10359]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty12 cpufreqd: pmu_init : /proc/pmu/info: No such file or directory in my cpufreqd.conf i didn't have any

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: I don't have a kernel module called radeon. I guess that's the problem.. Aah! But that module is provided by x11-base/x11-drm. Maybe you need to add the video_cards_ati USE flag? You are suggesting I move to version udev-084? Only when you have the radeon module and it

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:56, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': Will a 64 bit kernel be able to run a 32 bit bash? A 64-bit kernel will run 32-bit binaries fine... Um, there may be a needed

[gentoo-user] [OT] how to mount IXUS 40?

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi, 'digikam' works fine with this digital Canon camera. Also I can insert an SD-card into a card-reader and mount it as ordinary flash-card. But sometimes it is more handy to mount SD-card directly via camera's USB-port. '/var/log/meassages' fragment is below. Please, point me where to dig in.

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:33, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 15:56, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 64-bit kernel will run 32-bit binaries fine... Um, there may be a needed kernel option though... CONFIG_IA32_EMUL? Anyone? I cannot seem to find any such

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread CR Little
Apparently when I created my first drive pv. I missed something as well I have /dev/sda8-14 which are not set allocatable --- NEW Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda14 VG Name PV Size 8.93 GB Allocatable NO PE Size (KByte) 0 Total PE

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: Do you think this is a bug in the ebuild? No. But maybe it is a bug in the newer version of portage that you use, because here the VIDEO_CARDS=via gets autoconverted to the video_cards_via USE flag. Maybe try

[gentoo-user] Problems with kicker

2006-02-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote and what is about kicker? it can autohide - and if you have koffice installed, you should have covered most of its dependencies. I don't have KOffice on this machine; I was using KOffice as an example of a useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:34 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: Just an update; I unmasked and emerged vbetool-0.3 and it installed and emerged just fine. I configured the /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf script to use it and now it works, but only if I use the hibernate command. If I use kde's

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Kirillov
BSD ports system may not be as complex as Gentoo's and needs more attention to maintain port dependencies but this abuse of make IS REAL FAST. portage is REAL SLOW. So you should install/use cdb, which makes the whole rsync/update process REAL FAST. If you sync regularly it's usually within

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 01:12, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:52, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, it's starting from your i686 config, and trying to use it to assign as many symbols as possible to the new x86_64 kernel. Some of the symbols just won't exist. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Mike Myers
Hey Iain, Thanks for the info! I kinda figured that klaptop did something different. It obviously didn't run the hibernate.conf scripts. I guess I can settle for running hibernate in the console, I mean, that's better than nothing, really. Klaptop and gkrellm at least still give a good

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:39, Alexander Kirillov wrote: BSD ports system may not be as complex as Gentoo's and needs more attention to maintain port dependencies but this abuse of make IS REAL FAST. portage is REAL SLOW. So you should install/use cdb, which makes the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with kicker

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: kicker seems to have problems on my system, to say the least. I don't have the full KDE install, and this is causing problems, even if it doesn't specifically list the full KDE as a dependency. When I right-click on the panel, and

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:16, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': On Friday 24 February 2006 01:12, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:52, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: When you 'make

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error': Try: make ARCH=x86_64 CFLAGS=-m64 Nah, don't. It won't help, the kernel's Makefile doesn't pay attention to CFLAGS, it sets

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-23 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 01:56, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, why don't you give it a go with: make ARCH=x86_64 CC=gcc -m64 menuconfig make ARCH=x86_64 CC=gcc -m64 make ARCH=x86_64 CC=gcc -m64 modules_install make ARCH=x86_64 CC=gcc -m64 install and let me know how it goes. linux #

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:18 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: Thanks for the info! I kinda figured that klaptop did something different. It obviously didn't run the hibernate.conf scripts. I guess I can settle for running hibernate in the console, I mean, that's better than nothing, really. You

[gentoo-user] apache and php

2006-02-23 Thread Nick Smith
i know there has been alot of reconstruction with the php files in gentoo in the past, had alot of problems with one of my old web servers, horde wants php5 everything else doesnt. well ive setup a new server, decided i would install horde right out of the gate and let it pull down what it wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Any auto-hiding panels with a bunch of dependancies?

2006-02-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:55:40PM -0700, Robert Morris wrote You could try pypanel. It has the autohide feature, but I'm not sure that it responds to ALT-TAB. It's been a while since I've used it. Thank you very much. It only pulls in 3 dependancies. It looks to be exactly what I want.

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Frink
Graham,This happend to me on the .8.10 to .8.11 i just masked =gst-*-0.8.10 Cynyr.On 2/23/06, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[rant mode] Many of the gstreamer plugins, but not all of them, have been updated (in ~x86) to 0.8.12. That some of them are still at0.8.11 is causing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Cline
On 2/23/06, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use xpdf, because acroread takes ages to load. For this to work I added xpdf as handler for the application/pdf MIME-type to the list of helper applications. It should be somewhere in the preferences. I can't seem to find this option in

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/23/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Iain, Thanks for the info! I kinda figured that klaptop did something different. It obviously didn't run the hibernate.conf scripts. I guess I can settle for running hibernate in the console, I mean, that's better than nothing, really.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:14, Ernie Schroder wrote: Install timezone-data-2006b into /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image/ category sys-libs ./zic -y ./yearistype -d /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image//usr/share/zoneinfo -L /dev/null africa antarctica asia australasia

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:55 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hm, and you _did_ set up the qdiscs and classes first? OTOH, and I don't know for sure if that's needed before configuring the filters. I do believe that the q-classes are needed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Kirillov wrote: If I got it right here's the link for those interested: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Does this work with recent portage releases? Alexander Skwar -- My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt. George W. Bush February 27,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. Alexander Skwar -- It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ernie Schroder wrote: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 28, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. That's fixed by now, according to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant wrote: I do have acroread and gpdf installed. acroread provides a plugin. You'll just have to set a USE flag. Alexander Skwar -- Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html What more details do you need, and how would I go about getting them for you? This is my first scanner, and I know barely anything about hardware to begin

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
060223 Grant wrote: How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of downloading it? I have in ~/.mailcap : application/pdf; /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kpdf %s Firefox opens PDF's in a new tab for me, so that probably controls it. Incidentally, which PDF viewer do you like best out of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 February 2006 22:38, Nick Smith wrote: Use /etc/portage/package.keywords (with an actual keyword, instead of the default ~ARCH) or your local overlay. what is the actual keyword if it doesnt have one? just add it to my package.keywords file and add the arch to it? i dont see how that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:30 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: I can't seem to find this option in firefox 1.5.0.1 Under Edit - Preferences - Downloads I see Download actions. Clicking on View and Edit Actions shows an entry for some Flash-related files, but nothing for pdf and no option to add a

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