Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other problems were cleared up, and this avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just keeps

Re: [gentoo-user] strange block issue

2008-10-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Robert Bridge wrote: Try masking virtual/jre-1.6 Also, it might be worth checking if the jdictrayapi has be included in the Java 6 jdk, which would account for the block. You are right, I guess the software could not work with jre 1.5. I replaced my JRE 1.6 with JRE 1.5, but still hit a

[gentoo-user] Portage and fetch restrictions

2008-10-12 Thread Dale
Hi, I noticed that portage stops when it runs into a package like java that has a fetch restriction. I use the -f option a lot and it used to keep fetching then print at the end that a file was not downloaded. Is this a bug or is there a reason for this? I sort of liked the old fashioned way.

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other problems were cleared up, and this

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and fetch restrictions

2008-10-12 Thread Graham Murray
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that portage stops when it runs into a package like java that has a fetch restriction. I use the -f option a lot and it used to keep fetching then print at the end that a file was not downloaded. Is this a bug or is there a reason for this? I sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:52:52 Dale wrote: I used to use supermount too.  Switching for me was pretty easy tho.  I had some compatibility issues between versions of hal and ivman once but nothing really major, just annoying as usual. I guess I'm one of those, if it works, just use it.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My research into nvidia's docs leads me to believe that TwinView is designed to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and present one giant X screen, with a funky API

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-12 Thread Andrey Vul
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are blocking. I have run emerge -e system

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 10:25:51 Andrey Vul wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: Almost perpetually, the following packages or their

[gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and fetch restrictions

2008-10-12 Thread Dale
Graham Murray wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that portage stops when it runs into a package like java that has a fetch restriction. I use the -f option a lot and it used to keep fetching then print at the end that a file was not downloaded. Is this a bug or is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

2008-10-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:52:52 Dale wrote: I used to use supermount too. Switching for me was pretty easy tho. I had some compatibility issues between versions of hal and ivman once but nothing really major, just annoying as usual. I guess I'm one of those, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Erik Hahn: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the console. It's just hidden behind the X server. Maybe you can reproduce the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the VTs) I've tried,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the console. It's just hidden behind the X server. Maybe you can reproduce the problem working without X (If

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-12 Thread Grant
Hey Grant, I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm opening a case with asus for repairs...). First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-12, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cons: * You can't drag a window from one display to the other. This is pretty much a requirement for how I like to do things at work Two displays is probably not an option for you. The rest of your pros and cons either suit me just

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread YoYo siska
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:34:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, My notebook has this graphics hardware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo xdpyinfo | grep -A4 'screen

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacements for ivman

2008-10-12 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: How have you got it set up and how long has it been that way? Experienced any brokenness while it's been in use? Basically, I just emerged it and restarted KDE. It just worked. I don't recall changing anything as far as configs go. It has been

[gentoo-user] Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-12 Thread Adam Carter
Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter that uses the pl2303 driver, and have [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.wine/dosdevices $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adam users 12 May 9 04:08 com1 - /dev/ttyUSB0 But it doesnt appear to work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Grant Edwards wrote: [snip] There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two monitors. [snip] Pros: * Mouse movement and focus still act like one large display. * Each display can have it's own set of virtual

[gentoo-user] Fail to build eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3 cause of missing gjar

2008-10-12 Thread SOrCErEr
I try to use eclipse, so I emerged eclipse-sdk. But it failed while building eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3. The error message is like below. * * ERROR: dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3769: Called die * The specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, My notebook has this graphics hardware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) I have a Quadro FX 1600M, using nvidia-drivers... I also have a second LCD monitor at work, a

[gentoo-user] {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-12 Thread Grant
I've got my Philips SPC900NC webcam taking videos with the streamer command from the xawtv package, but I'd like to use a program to record videos based on motion detection. zoneminder looks good but seems difficult to set up and would be overkill. motion looks about right, but segfaults for me