Re: [gentoo-user] Is there any games base on openCL?

2010-08-25 Thread Blackdream W
Sorry..I don't know how to describe it clearly, with my poor English... 2010/8/26 Volker Armin Hemmann > On Wednesday 25 August 2010, Blackdream W wrote: > > I install the ati-drivers-10.7.1 just now,this version it seem support > > openCL 1.1. > > > > Any games base on it? > > > > Thanks. > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim < > ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> wrote: > >> Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: >> >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >>> ASUS VH242H, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/25/2010 03:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had more or less the opposite case -- a running daemon that was marked as stopped. Not exactly, because it was xdm marked as stopped, and kdm that was running. This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. Please acce

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep kde, etc) just starts another one. I finally figured out that I have to find the 'kdm'

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: Yep, but... just from a glance at their bug tracker and their commits list... they made quite a few changes to the Yahoo plugin's handling of avatars and such in January that're in 4.4... so their go-to answer on Yahoo avatar related issues seems to be "Try it on 4.4, then co

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Some more: > > Don't depend on some arb version number of libs. Nothing worse than being > forced to use some lib 4 versions behind current when current actually works > just fine ACK. But most times, that IMHO comes from incompatible API (or ABI) changes. Perhaps I s

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: > > I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, >> instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. > > "xdm" is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the > package x11-apps/xdm. Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display manager, provided

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mick wrote: > > On 25 August 2010 15:38, Paul Hartman > > > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Mick > wrote: > >>> On 25 August 2010 15:17, Paul Hartman > >>> > > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it > somehow. I know this effect, this happens from time to time. At the moment it is working fine, but I got used to killall kdm when the init script did not work. It did not bother me too much, so I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman wrote: > > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > >> control the display manager. My problem has been that going to > /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > > control the display manager. My problem has been that going to > /etc/init.d > > and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:30 on Wednesday 25 August 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: > > Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD > > monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. > > Why? Granted, LCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

2010-08-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 10:54:23 Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 > > > > > > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may h

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there any games base on openCL?

2010-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 August 2010, Blackdream W wrote: > I install the ati-drivers-10.7.1 just now,this version it seem support > openCL 1.1. > > Any games base on it? > > Thanks. games can not be based on opencl. Games might be able to use opencl to speed up certain kinds of calculations. But you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 17:39:15 Maciej Grela wrote: > 2010/8/25 Peter Humphrey : > > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: > >> Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an > >> LCD monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. > > > > Why? Granted, LCD panels

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/8/25 Peter Humphrey : > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: > >> Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD >> monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. > > Why? Granted, LCD panels are made up of discreet pixels, but so are > CRTs: the dots are depo

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/8/25 Peter Humphrey : > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: > >> Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD >> monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. > > Why? Granted, LCD panels are made up of discreet pixels, but so are > CRTs: the dots are depo

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: > Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD > monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. Why? Granted, LCD panels are made up of discreet pixels, but so are CRTs: the dots are deposited in trios, each illuminated thr

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:38, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Mick wrote: >>> On 25 August 2010 15:17, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I found the specs with Hsync and VSync

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Mick
On 25 August 2010 15:38, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 25 August 2010 15:17, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention the clock speed.

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention the >>> clock speed.  I guess I'll just have to fool with it until it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Mick
On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to >> control the display manager.  My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d >> and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Mick
On 25 August 2010 15:17, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention the >> clock speed.  I guess I'll just have to fool with it until it works or >> catches fire. > > That basically describe

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > control the display manager. My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d > and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. > Manually killing kde (ps -ef | g

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention the > clock speed.  I guess I'll just have to fool with it until it works or > catches fire. That basically describes the way I've done my X monitor settings for the past

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 03:17 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: > On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >> A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows >> you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're >> uncertain about a package name. The search w

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM, BRM wrote: > - Original Message > >> Joshua Murphy wrote: >> > Well, glancing at the GET request it's making  there, as well as the >> > API google points me to when I look it  up... >> > >> >  http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e462

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message > Joshua Murphy wrote: > > Well, glancing at the GET request it's making there, as well as the > > API google points me to when I look it up... > > > > http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e4628 > > > > You're right that it's after an image from

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:40 -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Yes, that is the way to solve the blocking. But even after masking > vmware-player, I have trouble getting vmware-workstation-7.1.1.282343 > installed. > > How can mware-workstation-7.1.1.282343 depend on vmware-modules-238, > and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread Blackdream W
Just type this in ur terminal : sudo sed -i 's/vmware-modules-238/vmware-modules-238.1/' /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-7.1.1.282343.ebuild && sudo ebuild /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-7.1.1.282343.ebuild ma

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:02:17AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 08:58 -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > Here is the reason of your problem. Try to mask vmware-player > > > > That does not seem to be enough. > > > > Looking at the ebuilds, I have found the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/24/2010 5:46 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In other words, "-bin" is not a magic string you append to package names. As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both 64

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:44 -0400, James wrote: > Albert, > > Thanks for the response. > > "dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive > instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer > put on the drive. But what I'm saying is... you "wipe" the partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 08:58 -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > Here is the reason of your problem. Try to mask vmware-player > > That does not seem to be enough. > > Looking at the ebuilds, I have found the following: > > > > # grep > vmware-modules > /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulatio

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 03:23:13PM +0400, d.fedo...@timeweb.ru wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I am having some trouble installing vmware-workstation from the vmware > > overlay: > > > > > > # emerge -avt vmware-workstation > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > > > Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread d . fedorov
> Hello. > > I am having some trouble installing vmware-workstation from the vmware > overlay: > > > # emerge -avt vmware-workstation > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N f ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-7.1.1.282

[gentoo-user] trouble emerging vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay

2010-08-25 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
Hello. I am having some trouble installing vmware-workstation from the vmware overlay: # emerge -avt vmware-workstation These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N f ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-7.1.1.282343 USE="vmware-t

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread dhk
On 08/24/2010 08:07 PM, Dale wrote: > dhk wrote: >> On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > >> Yah,

[gentoo-user] CHOST on Cygwin?

2010-08-25 Thread Al
Hello, I try to setup Gentoo Prefix on Cygwin. Cygwin is a POSIX layer on windows. That means that the environment is POSIX but the binaries are COFF instead of ELF AFAIK. Now I wonder which CHOST to set in this case. What does it describe, the environment or the file format? Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: Well, glancing at the GET request it's making there, as well as the API google points me to when I look it up... http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e4628 You're right that it's after an image from their profile, but the cause of the failure appears to

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Mick writes: > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 > > > > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have > > set up and p*sses me off. o_O > > > > As soon as KDE starts

[gentoo-user] why is the gentoo-arm maillist stop?

2010-08-25 Thread doherty pete
why is the gentoo-arm maillist stop? -- pete_doherty

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Dale wrote: > BRM wrote: >> >> Wireshark will show you the raw packet data, and decode only a little of >> it - >> enough to identify the general protocol, senders, etc. >> So to understand the packet, you will need to understand the application >> layer >> protoc