Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo with ZIMBRA

2010-12-07 Thread Marcus Wanner
español. Sorry, I don't think anyone here speaks Spanish... Marcus Wanner

[gentoo-user] The story of a successful move from ~x86 back to x86.

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
, it's just not very pretty. Thanks for your advice way back when; it seems to have worked out in the end. Any opinions on what I did right/shouldn't have done the way I did? Marcus Wanner Here's my detailed log of all the commands I ran/changes I made, in chronological order, for those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
in, has anyone considered taking the component mounts off a really old case and building a new one? I mean, you can use whatever material you want, and it would take probably less time than shopping endlessly for a cheap pre-made one... Marcus Wanner

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-31 Thread Marcus Wanner
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. People say this from time to time, yet I have been running

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the wrong contents because they had been written to but not actually flushed to the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-28 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/28/2009 3:40 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Thats why I think removing gnome (or kde) is a good idea - replace with a lightweight desktop so you still have the required functionality. it is for emergency use after all. I find that building from scratch is usually less of a problem than

[gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-27 Thread Marcus Wanner
When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched to ~x86 because I was tired of using versions of apps from 6 months ago... Too make a long story

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile kvm

2009-12-24 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember. i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said to have been masked, so i unmasked it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-23 Thread Marcus Wanner
It tends to be caused by crashes in which the session is not saved and the session manager has a hard time restoring it, so it doesn't start the panel and other stuff. Usually, starting the panel manually or logging out with out saving the session and then back in again will fix it. Glad you

Re: [gentoo-user] No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-22 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/20/2009 4:45 PM, nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I had to hardreboot my laptop was totaly unresponsive to any input. Now that I have rebooted I can login with kdm but after that I have no desktop. I can open applications with krunner (alt+f2) but thats it. All the applications looks okay.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-22 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/21/2009 7:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On which topic, is there a make of USB stick that is more-or-less guaranteed to boot on any system? I haven't found one yet. Some will boot on this box, some on that one, but none on any of them. Well, first you need a box that supports booting

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/19/2009 10:27 AM, Dale wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: If I want to freeze my nvidia-drivers because any upgrade will abandon my hardware, masking out newer versions doesn't seem to be enough as it will also offer to downgrade once that version is no longer in the portage tree. Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 8:58 PM, Grant wrote: I used unetbootin to install Damn Small Linux on the 512MB bootable USB key, and I'm booted into it. /dev/sda is my HD, and I'm running: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda The USB LED is blinking rapidly, but the HD LED is showing no activity. Is there any way to

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/19/2009 12:37 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: My package mask file reads =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-97.00 Because I have a GEForce 3 from goodness knows when and need 96.x. When something had ABI updates and the video driver was part of them, the driver was updated to the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 4:32 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by default. But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do things really go obsolete

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 10:40 AM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote: Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a file at the same time) instead of wget. I tried to do this setting the parameter FETCHCOMMAND in my make.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use puf instead of wget

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 1:38 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote: Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a file at the same time) instead of wget. You got it backwards.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 6:05 PM, Grant wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or what ever) After reading over all the info here, I think I'm going to go with dd since the data isn't too sensitive. I created a 9.1_Live_x64 USB key with unetbootin, but the laptop won't boot to it. I have another

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/18/2009 7:39 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: Try passing a rootdelay option to the kernel to allow the kernels USB probe to complete before it tries to mount the USB device. e.g. kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/usbhdd rootdelay=30 in grub 30 seconds is a bit much, IMHO. USB probes in my

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote: chicane ~ # shred test/ shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/ shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgraded gcc 4.1.2 to 4.3.4; dosemu 1.4.0 won't emerge

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/16/2009 11:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo (Dell D530) USE=-X -debug -gpm -svga. The last step of the gcc upgrade is emerge -eav world. dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to

[gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing wrong? Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device corresponding to my floppy

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Willie Wong writes: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers - Block devices - Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] GLX module not loaded...

2009-12-16 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/16/2009 2:54 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:32:41AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am still haveing one EE in my Xorg.0.log which says the following: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that

Re: [gentoo-user] GLX module not loaded...

2009-12-16 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/16/2009 1:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org [09-12-16 19:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: I did by hand and now I have another problem: (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: dri (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote: I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my system still does not have sound. what have i missed? unmute? t To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 10:23 AM, Skippy wrote: Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and write it as wav files: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would be handy if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 12:29 AM, daid kahl wrote: You can just set this up in ~/.xinitrc then. exec startxfce4 (that's actually startxfce)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/14/2009 2:21 PM, Stroller wrote: Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap has a large filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 12:07 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: unmute? To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer is special that way

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/14/2009 10:29 AM, GerhardosG wrote: Hi , My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/12/2009 2:42 PM, Dale wrote: And some would also argue that cycling power on and off is actually bad for the rig as well. Keeping things at a constant temp is better than fluctuating temps. The old expanding and contracting of material argument. Sort of strange that computers that run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote: Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up. Where I come from, we use | less :p Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. Please post the actual error messages. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports

Re: [gentoo-user] how to know which driver a device is using?

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/1/2009 7:59 PM, Xi Shen wrote: Hi, when i start my system from gentoo live dvd, all my hardware works fine. but if i want to have a small system, so i removed many drivers when i am compiling my own system. the result is some times, i do not know which driver should i choose for my

Re: [gentoo-user] tunneling or redirect attack?

2009-12-01 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/1/2009 10:07 AM, laurent wrote: Hi, Is it a common thing, or really easy to do, to redirect the content from a server to another one? Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all data travelling there?? Thanks for information. Laurent And this is relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-01 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com writes: As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case? Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of several

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 8:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote: I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks quite usable now, though it wasn't a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey 2.0 and certain sites not working.

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 4:05 AM, Dale wrote: I think that's a bug with your email client, you should try using the latest version...

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 8:21 PM, daid kahl wrote: When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo, cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some update) it has stopped working with the behaviour I have described above. This is every single story of Gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-28 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/28/2009 5:03 PM, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 28 November 2009 05:50:42 »Q« wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:57:54 +0200 Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: [about LastPass] What I find incredible is that

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-28 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/28/2009 3:18 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Several comments about answers here. First, to Marcus Wanner, yes, the first two eclipse packages work for 3.5, but they AREN'T eclipse, they are plugins for eclipse (plugins for what I really want). The 3rd is eclipse-sdk, the only one you don't cover

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 2:21 AM, Mick wrote: I guess you may need to moprobe -r driver before you hibernate and see if that works? Yes, but only if not programs are using the module. Now, I have a script which shuts down alsasound, unloads and reloads the module, and then starts alsasound. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 12:55 PM, David Relson wrote: Alternatively, one can use the autounmask command, for example: autounmask dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.5.1 On my AMD64 system, which has /etc/portage/package.keywords (as a directory, rather than a file) autounmask generated file:

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-26 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/26/2009 5:02 AM, daid kahl wrote: After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer works. I checked out dmesg, and it says that (among other things): Check the various hybernation/acpi config files. There should be the option somewhere in there to

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package

2009-11-25 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/25/2009 12:20 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse * dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj Available versions: (3.3) 3.3.0-r1 (3.4) 3.4 (3.5) ~3.5.1 {elibc_FreeBSD} Homepage:

[gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-25 Thread Marcus Wanner
I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] sound card which uses the snd_cs46xx kernel driver. After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer works. I checked out

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-25 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/25/2009 5:10 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:29:43 Marcus Wanner wrote: I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] sound card which uses the snd_cs46xx kernel driver

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging SD card

2009-11-22 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/22/2009 1:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, My netbook uses an SD card for additional storage. I suspect it of being buggy so I compiled the kernel with 'CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG=y'. Questions are: how do I use it to check the SD card? Is this the correct method? Maxim If you just want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding linux-2.6.31.x and gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/19/2009 4:10 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:49:19PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick quesition regarding linux-2.6.31.x and gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/19/2009 6:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/19/2009 6:45 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Better use the interactive init feature. Just hit 'I' when init starts (init even tells you, that you can do it) and choose which services to start by hitting 'y' and 'n' (actually 1, 2, 3, and 4) Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles with kde4

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/20/2009 8:52 AM, econti wrote: Hi all, finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but: 1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings-Dislplay. Every time a session starts I have to set it again (and

Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so

Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/20/2009 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles with kde4

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/20/2009 2:28 PM, econti wrote: cut further 4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from desktop) the answer is Only root can mount a device (all permissions are the same as before) I would check out groups username and see whether you are a member of the

Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/20/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is certainly something to be said for using the most popular

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter. I am pretty sure that this is the case. The

[gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding linux-2.6.31.x and gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
I was just wondering if a package such as gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out. Thanks, and sorry for my noobishness. Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I didn't really like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/17/2009 10:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give

Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED) lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-17 Thread Marcus Wanner
with obconf (emerge it if you don't have it). lxappearance changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went without a hitch...). I

[gentoo-user] lxappearance and commonbox-styles?

2009-11-16 Thread Marcus Wanner
I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I didn't really like the default theme, so I installed commonbox-themes and commonbox-themes-extra. I opened lxappearance and tried to switch to one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-13 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 11:36 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Spoke too soon...now I'm getting this: ../doltcompile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include-DHAVE_ssing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: [gentoo-user] making a file-list at (a) for fetching at (b)

2009-11-13 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/13/2009 3:24 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Can someone explain to me how to generate a list of files to be fetched, eg -fuDN world, on a slow desktop that can be downloaded onto a netbook later? Maxim You want to generate a list of packages to be upgraded, and then upgrade them

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 5:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:12:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Roy Wright schrieb: Also keep in mind that it's the ebuild that is untested. The package is usually what upstream has released as stable. I haven't yet looked at it

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
Hi, As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to ~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when it got to xorg-server-1.6.5, it crashed complaining about ../Xext/panoramiX.h:44:41: error: X11/extensions/panoramiXext.h: No such file or directory.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:23:11 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi, As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to ~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary or permanent) the xinerama USE flag. Me or Alan? OP As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 1:21 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary or permanent) the xinerama USE flag. Me or Alan? OP As a suggestion for a work

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 1:29 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 1:21 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary or permanent) the xinerama USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Disable (either temporary

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 5:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now emergeing any of them starts with: Error: Unrecognized option: --impl-headers exiting and ends with: CCsingle2.o

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 5:48 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now emergeing any of them starts

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 November 2009 00:06:53 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 5:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)

2009-11-12 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/12/2009 6:02 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 5:48 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/11/2009 2:01 PM, Alexander Clark wrote: I'm getting a strange error on one particular box when I try to emerge --sync: rsync error: sibling process crashed (code 15) at main.c(1505) [generator=3.0.6] Retrying... dmesg told me: grsec: From 66.55.54.28: signal 4 sent to

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/11/2009 5:47 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I am now looking at some # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -avuDN world This gives me 464 packages (441 upgrades, 15 new, 6 in new slots, 2 reinstalls, 4 uninstalls) ... phew ... maybe tomorrow ... ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/11/2009 4:10 PM, Alexander Clark wrote: In any case, emerge-webrsync works for now (thanks Marcus, not sure why I didn't think of that). Glad I could help. However, a better solution is probably needed in the long run. Marcus

[gentoo-user] Confused about moving to ~x86 and the openrc-migration doc page...

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Wanner
Hi! I am moving to ~x86 from x86, and was wondering if the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml apply to me. I installed my system less than 3 weeks ago and was wondering if I am already using baselayout-2 and openrc, and whether I need to do what that page says.

Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED!) Confused about moving to ~x86 and the openrc-migration doc page...

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/11/2009 7:31 PM, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: I am moving to ~x86 from x86, and was wondering if the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml apply to me. I installed my system less than 3 weeks ago

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT-perhaps] Cracking PDF file encryption

2009-11-09 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/9/2009 7:24 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/11/9 Erik esi...@gmail.com: Mick skrev: I am trying to copy some text from a pdf file which has been protected, most likely using Adobe on a MSWindows machine. When I select some text, the new KDE4 pdf viewer (Okular) shows the 'copy text' right

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT-perhaps] Cracking PDF file encryption

2009-11-09 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/9/2009 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: Wow...that makes Okular illegal in the US under the DMCA for circumventing DRM... That's dumb, even dumber than software patents... Marcus DMCA has an exception

[gentoo-user] Re: Suncom FX2000 Joystick: Buttons but not analog working...

2009-11-08 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/7/2009 9:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got results after following the guide at http

[gentoo-user] Suncom FX2000 Joystick: Buttons but not analog working...

2009-11-07 Thread Marcus Wanner
I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got results after following the guide at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Joystick I did what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/3/2009 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Try recompiling the evdev,

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks! Marcus P.S. Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 1:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/02/2009 07:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 1:40 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 11/2/2009 12:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 3:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: SNIP Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did the trick. Marcus You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the two

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/2/2009 5:59 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:48 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote: Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) for 700. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]

2009-10-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 10/28/2009 06:38 AM, Damien Sticklen wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: lscpi returns command not found Are you using the lspci command as root? Yes, I haven't set up a non-root user yet. Marcus

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