[gentoo-user] Xinerama and Xrandr

2010-03-07 Thread Dan Johansson
I have been playing with my X-configuration this weekend and I can not really get it to work the way I like. My desktop box has two Nvidia cards installed with one monitor connected to each. On to of that I am running KDE (v 4.3.5 at the moment). # lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-03-07 Thread Damian
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Sonntag 14 Februar 2010 16:48:00 schrieb Stroller: Is it possible that you Dirk are using different versions of baselayout? Yes, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 06 March 2010 19:28:22 Tanstaafl wrote: I have multiple kernels installed, and can choose which one to boot from from the grub boot screen. I always keep the previous 2 or 3 versions 'just in case' (never needed to boot from one though)... Me too, except that I keep only one known

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 02:21:39 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: Tomorrow I will have a go at the fglrx. This is doing my head in ... fglrx won't have any influence on your INPUT DRIVER based

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.31-r6 - where is hot-pluggable device support for udev?

2010-03-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Tanstaafl schrieb: Hello, The Gentoo udev guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) says specifically to make sure that: 'General setup --- [*] Support for hot-pluggable devices' is enabled, but I didn't have this option available (the others were already enabled) when I

Re: [gentoo-user] [almost SOLVED] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:59:10 you wrote: I already did, but just in case, here is my latest effort, along with the Xorg.0.log. I am not (yet) convinced that this is a HAL problem. Good news! I seem to have solved it somehow ... it started showing up after I configured the framebuffer

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 11:09:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 02:21:39 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 07 März 2010, Mick wrote: Tomorrow I will have a go at

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:39:05 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-06 1:53 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010 01:30:38 Tanstaafl wrote: So, again, does anyone know if the new version of lvm2 (with integrated device-mapper) will work ok on the 2.6.23 kernel, or is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] [almost SOLVED] Can't get Xorg going on Radeon HD R730 4670

2010-03-07 Thread pk
On 2010-03-07 18:53, Mick wrote: Good news! I seem to have solved it somehow ... it started showing up after I configured the framebuffer for the VTs. Could this be related? Is it now using the fb to render X, or the radeon driver? How can I tell? (glxgears is 4 times slower than

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-07 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: You are going to have to switch sometime, the day will come when baselayout-2 goes stable. Seeing as you plan a large update anyway, which will have downtime, this would be an ideal opportunity. Is baselayout 2 in the tarball yet? This would be a good time for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54:31 -0600, Dale wrote: You are going to have to switch sometime, the day will come when baselayout-2 goes stable. Seeing as you plan a large update anyway, which will have downtime, this would be an ideal opportunity. Is baselayout 2 in the tarball yet? Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-07 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54:31 -0600, Dale wrote: You are going to have to switch sometime, the day will come when baselayout-2 goes stable. Seeing as you plan a large update anyway, which will have downtime, this would be an ideal opportunity. Is baselayout

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and sound card [SOLVED?]

2010-03-07 Thread Dmitry Makovey
For completeness here's what I have ended up with: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf : alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss options snd cards_limit=4 slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-hda-intel,snd-usb-audio alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0

[gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: operation not permitted. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have ownership changed via chown

[gentoo-user] A curious qmail bug in the aftermath of openssl-0.9.8m

2010-03-07 Thread felix
Interesting Saturday morning. I did an upgrade, nothing spectacular, except qmail-smtpd stopped receiving email, instead leaving this line in the log for every connection attempt: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: failed to map segment from shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have ownership

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
Discovered something: if the usb flash drive is mounted with nautilus, there is no problem with permissions. If mounted from within console, and mounted to /mnt/disk, issues with permissions begin.