Re: [gentoo-user] sann-find-scanner can't find my scanner

2007-07-21 Thread Dale
Xihong Yin wrote: > Hi, > > I first followed the gentoo wiki on how to install USB scanner. After > emerge hotplug, sane-backends, and xsane. I don't have the configure > file, "/etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap". What the problem? > > Then I searched the Gentoo forum. I found another USB scanner ho

[gentoo-user] sann-find-scanner can't find my scanner

2007-07-21 Thread Xihong Yin
Hi, I first followed the gentoo wiki on how to install USB scanner. After emerge hotplug, sane-backends, and xsane. I don't have the configure file, "/etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap". What the problem? Then I searched the Gentoo forum. I found another USB scanner howto. So I did all steps requi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-21 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that > a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't > find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different > these days, but the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread icephere
Thank you very much! My box does not have libstdc++-v3, and it is a "Compatibility package for running binaries linked against a pre gcc 3.4 libstdc++" Best, ice On Jul 21, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Remy Blank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: icephere ha scritt

[gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > icephere ha scritto: >> When I remove "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by >> emerge anymore... weird > > Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible. - From the ati-drivers ebuild, you can s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread b.n.
icephere ha scritto: When I remove "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by emerge anymore... weird Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread icephere
When I remove "fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by emerge anymore... weird ice On Jul 21, 2007, at 2:39 PM, icephere wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to install xorg-server on a thinkpad T42. The system has gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1) already. But every time

[gentoo-user] why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

2007-07-21 Thread icephere
Hi Guys, I am trying to install xorg-server on a thinkpad T42. The system has gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1) already. But every time I want to emerge xorg-server, the emerge asks to install gcc-3.3.6. I don't understand why the xorg-server needs an old gcc while the new one is alr

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:11:53 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean that > > echo "dev-java/blackdown-jre" >> /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask > echo "dev-java/blackdown-jdk" >> /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask > echo "dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin" >> /etc/make

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove > app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config > [ Search

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:52:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: >> Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 16:41 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> > I notice that I have the nsplugin use flag UNset. use.desc says >> > >> > nsplugin - Builds plugins for N

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:39:48 pm Willie Wong wrote: > I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is > meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. > > It would certainly be annoying to need to hav

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

2007-07-21 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:15, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Big thanks Dirk > It seems vfat doesn't have a "sync" mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know. That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash disk and I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/20/07, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there! Any idea why emerge --depclean wants to remove app-shells/bash-completion-config? It it needed by some installed packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ --> equery depends app-shells/bash-completion-config [ Searching for packages depending

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

2007-07-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy: > Can I precisely recognize usb stick and usb hard drive ? Note that the last > is exactly external usb hard drive, not a usb stick. Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > Can I disable write-cache on vfat,ntsf-3g? I

[gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-21 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
Hi I'm trying to learn how to write udev rules for auto-naming usb sticks and usb hard drives. I have several problems that I can't solve: Can I precisely recognize usb stick and usb hard drive ? Note that the last is exactly external usb hard drive, not a usb stick. Can I disable write-cache

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 21 July 2007 11:47, Herbert Laubner wrote: > Here the lines with warnings from /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or > directory) > (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) > found Under Device section in you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Herbert Laubner
Here the lines with warnings from /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled (WW) LoadModule:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 21 July 2007 10:38, Herbert Laubner wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to Gentoo. > I finally managed to set up xorg on my system, fluxbox is running, > but whenever I want to terminate the X-Server, the screen is not > receiving any signal anymore. The only chance to get a commandline > bac

[gentoo-user] Problem shutting down X-server

2007-07-21 Thread Herbert Laubner
Hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I finally managed to set up xorg on my system, fluxbox is running, but whenever I want to terminate the X-Server, the screen is not receiving any signal anymore. The only chance to get a commandline back or to get the server running again is to restart the pc.