Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware

[gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card

2009-09-14 Thread Matthias Langer
Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. Thanks in advance, Matthias [1]:

[gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume

2008-03-12 Thread Matthias Langer
Since audacious-1.4* there seems to be something b0rked with the volume controls. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (there is a thread about this in users-de). In more detail: Adjusting the volume from within audacious works, usually with all files in the current playlist, if at least one

Re: [gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume

2008-03-12 Thread Matthias Langer
ALSA. Using the default, in-kernel driver. The soundcard is some ATI IXP chipset-based onboard thing (listed as ATI in lspci as well IIRC). Thanks for your information: That reminds me... I should probably also add e.) your soundcard + driver inforamtion I'm using Intel Corporation 82801I

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings; i've created a new user - and it

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16.

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest

[gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't have a usable desktop till i type metacity into some terminal.

Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:25 -0700, Hex Star wrote: You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here well, that would be indeed a very good idea; however, i don't start gnome from a terminal but from gdm and i don't know where to

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

2007-02-28 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I've got a machine that will no longer run Evolution. For whatever reason all versions of Evolution in Portage crash. I cannot as of yet get a backtrace to determine why. I'm using evolution-2.8.2.1 and it works fine; can you

[gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem

2006-12-07 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm using alsa for years now and it has always been fine; especially it has always been possible without any problems to have multiple apps running that access the sound card. For example i could start audacious to play some music and to totem and watch a movie _with_ sound; or play some music and

Re: [gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem [SOLVED]

2006-12-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:18 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: I'm using alsa for years now and it has always been fine; especially it has always been possible without any problems to have multiple apps running that access the sound card. For example i could start audacious to play some music

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Start Epiphany

2006-12-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:01 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all, I've just made a shiny new install and am using the Gnome desktop, but I cannot seem to start Epiphany. When I try, I get a dialogue box telling me: Startup failed because of the following error: Unable to determine the

Re: [gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem [SOLVED]

2006-12-07 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:24 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/7/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsa-init: using device default alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument Could not open/initialize audio

Re: OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)

2006-11-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:08 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I modify work list of emerge --resume?

2006-09-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:21 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was 8 hours through the emerge -eav world part of upgrading gcc when it hit the pysol package it's not happy with. The messages are telling me I need to recompile python with Tkinter support and asked me to add dev/lang/python X

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]

2006-06-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:24 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i've recently set up a local nfs server for my disfiles; to keep the WAN out i have: iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]

2006-06-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:53 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i'm not sure which of these lines acually fixed my problem as i've just looked at the output of rpcinfo and grabbed all nfs relevant ports from

[gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456

2006-06-18 Thread Matthias Langer
i've recently set up a local nfs server for my disfiles; to keep the WAN out i have: iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -p UDP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP everthing is working fine so far; however, my logs are full with these messages:

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-30 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:04 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Tuesday 30 May 2006 07:41 skrev Graham Murray: Besides, by looking at the terminal while merging packages, you will soon notice, that lot's of packages add their very own CFLAGS to your default ones. For example mplayer or

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Matthias Langer
snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 snip Before doing anything else, please clean up your CFLAGS and do # emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:31 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:14:25 +0200 snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:31 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:14:25 +0200 snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Matthias Langer
snip PS: I symlinked /var/tmp/portags to /tmp/portage (I carefully copied all permissions settings...) due to space problems. /snip I've not noticed this before: Neil Botwick once wrote to me here, in gentoo-user: quote If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-28 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 15:03 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-27 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 03:45 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:04 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 Problems

2006-05-27 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:00 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, For some time now I have been getting errors on boot. 1.This happens a number of times:- udev-event [1777]:find_free_number: %e is deprecated, will be removed and is unlikely to work correctly. Don't use it What does this mean

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-26 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:07 +0800, fei huang wrote: On 5/26/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-26 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:27 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-26 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:04 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting

[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 01:50 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 19:37 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fei huang wrote: well, I know the post should not shows up at list of gentoo, but the problem is really quite annoying and I could not find any useful solution through google. every

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...

2006-05-25 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes, It took me more than half an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program that measures

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:25 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build wine

2006-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 03:12 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Anybody know what this error is about? I can't seem to build wine. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -DINCLUDEDIR=\/usr/include/wine\ -Wall -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:11 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Bob Bao wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results [SOLVED]

2006-04-11 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:11 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:40 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] InkScape trouble

2006-03-26 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 12:46 +, b.n. wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: As normal user I did: # inkscape Ok, InkScape thought, let's crash! BADABOOM! That's it. Funny :) , but I think this is not the error message you're displayed when inkscape crashes... Can

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:40 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command

Re: [gentoo-user] Flag USE

2006-03-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am new on this list (and new of Gentoo). I have some doubts on the setting of the flag USE. I understood its features but I do not know WHEN use them. Some questions: 1 - Is it mandatory to set the Flag USE? 2 - If not,

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:32 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 05:02, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-20 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:46 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:32 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 05:02, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo

[gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems

Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results

2006-03-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have

[gentoo-user] gnome-system-monitor-2.12.1 crashes

2006-01-23 Thread Matthias Langer
I just would like to know if someone else is experiencing random crashes with gnome-system-monor-2.12.1 when modifing the information displayed in the process list, as i described in more detail at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120006. Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:17 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/20/06, Linux Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html Don't take me wrong, i

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome

2006-01-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world

[gentoo-user] permissions on ntfs partitions

2005-12-23 Thread Matthias Langer
Can anybody tell me if it is normal that files on ntfs partitions are executable by default when mounting them under linux ? Or is it possible that this has something to do with the following line from my fstab: /dev/hde1 /mnt/bill ntfs user,umask=,nls=utf8 0 0 Thanks, Matthias --

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-17 Thread Matthias Langer
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:08 +, Stroller wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:05 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: Well, i use azureus - and of course i know that upload-speed can be limited - which is maybe in fact the best solution to my problem. ... for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:53 +0200, Matan Peled wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually

[gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer
I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my workstation. Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my workstation. Now, when i

Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes

2005-12-12 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/30/05, Travis Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes something about her setup goes haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. I've had a similar issue and, for me, it's usually nautilus erroring. If

Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter

2005-12-11 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 13:45 +, cucu ionut cristian wrote: tryng to install various aplications that wore not in portage found the folowing error: bad interpreter: Permission denied As I remeber i got this error tring to install luminocity and now e17 modules; concrete: trying moon from e17

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:44 +0200, Paul wrote: Not any more Ryan On 12/6/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are still awake!?!? When I signed up (about half an hour ago) I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issue

2005-12-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:45 -0500, Marc Morrisette wrote: I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It went smoothly on 2 of them, everything works fine, but on the third, after I recompiled the kernel, alsa-driver won't compile. I'm using vanilla-sources 2.6.14.2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issue

2005-12-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:58 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:45 -0500, Marc Morrisette wrote: I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It went smoothly on 2 of them, everything works fine, but on the third, after I recompiled the kernel, alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update

2005-12-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:32 +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-11-24 Thread Matthias Langer
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 22:49 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I think I've somehow managed to screw gcc up. Whenever I try to emerge anything I get this message: checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables It also says See config.log for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3

2005-11-22 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:17 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:28:26 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain

Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)

2005-11-22 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What do you expect to gain? The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:33 +0900, Steve B wrote: WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced to use canned binaries I might as well go

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:57 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:33 +0900, Steve B wrote: WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3

2005-11-21 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:01 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method. I understand the concept of doing an emerge -e world in order to get the optimization of a

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-08 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:58 -0800, Bob Young wrote: -Original Message- From: David Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm,

[gentoo-user] evolution, aspell and multilanguage support

2005-10-28 Thread Matthias Langer
I've recently switched to evolution for writing and receiving mail. As German is my mother language I write German e-mails in regular intervals. So I thought installing app-dicts/aspell-de would be a good idea. However, I'm not able to select a German dictionary in evolution. Last but not least

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51

2005-10-08 Thread Matthias Langer
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:15, Matthias Langer wrote: I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg: hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd: dma_intr: error

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51

2005-10-08 Thread Matthias Langer
Matthias Langer wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:15, Matthias Langer wrote: I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg: hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) Use tar since cp wont preserve empty dirs. # cd /path/to/old/dir # tar cf - * | ( cd /path/to/new/dir tar xf - ) What about rsync -a ? They used tar, for some reasons they

Re: [gentoo-user] two questions about gdm

2005-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
Matthias Langer wrote: I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your

[gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51

2005-10-07 Thread Matthias Langer
I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg: hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } I'm using vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5. Here are some other

[gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd]

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very

[gentoo-user] two questions about gdm

2005-10-06 Thread Matthias Langer
I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your configuration. Because

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

2005-10-05 Thread Matthias Langer
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain

[gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

2005-10-04 Thread Matthias Langer
By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that this behavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't change after removing

[gentoo-user] gcc usefalgs

2005-09-25 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm woudering about the effect of the following useflags for sys-devel/gcc: gtk, multislot, vanilla Does anybody know what they do ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] multiple gcc versions

2005-09-24 Thread Matthias Langer
to work, as it is c++ stuff and the libs i'm using are compiled with 3.3.6 - i only want to be sure that the code compiles cleanly]. Thanks, Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] alias

2005-09-19 Thread Matthias Langer
fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alias [RESOLVED]

2005-09-19 Thread Matthias Langer
?? and to make sure new users get it I modify what's in /etc/skel. I used /etc/bash.rc because it was on a distro I was familiar with at the time. From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/19 Mon AM 08:24:45 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] alias Recently i