Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-30 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hi On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:12:43PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: It certainly doesn't like the fact my binaries are stripped. Here's what I could come up with: You need to recompile it with FEATURES=nostrip and possibly USE=debug. Don't forget to remove -fomit-frame-pointer from C{,XX}FLAGS,

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken

2007-08-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Michael Hanselmann: Hi On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:12:43PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: It certainly doesn't like the fact my binaries are stripped. Here's what I could come up with: You need to recompile it with FEATURES=nostrip and possibly USE=debug. Don't forget to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-30 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
sean escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: sean escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: The fetch restriction appears when downloading its documentation, not the jvm itself; if you don't have doc use flag enabled for jvm you won't download it, and hence, you won't experience its fetch

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser on a i686 machine

2007-08-30 Thread Wang, Baojun
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Wang, Baojun wrote: hi, list I need emerge xorg-xserver and xorg-x11, and when it's emerging dev-perl/XML-Parser, I got the following error: note that the host is a normal SMP i686 machine (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and I think there is nothing wrong with my

Init Script dependencies (Was [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount)

2007-08-30 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hello again! Nevertheless I've used this many times before, and although realtime performance isn't especially good, I certainly wouldn't go so far as to call it unstable. I've used OpenVPN to interconnect workstations and servers in Argentina, using all from Cable internet to ADSL, and

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser on a i686 machine

2007-08-30 Thread Dale
Wang, Baojun wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007, Wang, Baojun wrote: hi, list I need emerge xorg-xserver and xorg-x11, and when it's emerging dev-perl/XML-Parser, I got the following error: note that the host is a normal SMP i686 machine (i686-pc-linux-gnu) and I think there is

Re: Init Script dependencies (Was [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount)

2007-08-30 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Patrick Holthaus wrote: How can I adjust init script dependencies based on ESSID / IP adress or network devices that are up and running? I'd just remove the stock, for example, /etc/init.d/openvpn script. Write my own, (one that checks ESSID/IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Which -march and flags for Intel Dual Core (*NOT* Core Duo)?

2007-08-30 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:14:06PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Two identical cores show up in /proc/cpuinfo. To save space on the list, I'm only listing the 2nd one. I'm about to do an install. Any ideas for USE and other settings also welcome. gcc 4.something (I hope it is already

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? Well, it sort of depends on how you

[gentoo-user] IMAP server for localhost

2007-08-30 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi list, So, I have a small issue: I have come to hate the glitches in Evolution and want to try out other email clients. Now, the problem is, the emails are all stored locally in Evolutions directory structure, and kmailcvt hangs when importing. It was suggested to me by a dorm admin to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server for localhost

2007-08-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi list, So, I have a small issue: I have come to hate the glitches in Evolution and want to try out other email clients. Now, the problem is, the emails are all stored locally in Evolutions directory structure, and kmailcvt hangs when

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP server for localhost

2007-08-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:16:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a setup like this - kmail connecting to dovecot @ localhost. I pop my mail off the various mail servers I use with net-mail/getmail, the docs are quite clear. Performance is slower than local mailboxes

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-30 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/30/07, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? you could take the trouble to learn

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-30 Thread Lingyun Yang
It works under unencrypted, no password network. But not the network with authorization. On 8/27/07, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: Starting AP scan (specific SSID)

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant+ndiswrapper, Dell E1505, Broadcom 4311 wireless problem

2007-08-30 Thread Lingyun Yang
On 8/27/07, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following lines worries me a bit. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Penguin Lover Lingyun Yang squawked: Starting AP scan (specific SSID) Scan SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): 41 50 54 32 32 42

Re: [gentoo-user] Which -march and flags for Intel Dual Core (*NOT* Core Duo)?

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 03:43:35 schrieb Statux: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Two identical cores show up in /proc/cpuinfo. To save space on the list, I'm only listing the 2nd one. I'm about to do an install. Any ideas for USE and other settings also

[gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make modules_install 4.-) mkinitrd initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-30 Thread sean
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Ok, since you have more than one JDK and JDK's can be used as JRE's you may have to specify which version you want your system to use. If you run the following command you'll know your available JVM's and also the one you are currently using: java-config

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 18:42:38 schrieb Arnau Bria: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link Just to make that point clear: Did

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Marc Joliet, Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/. I too use LVM and it yields excellent results. -- Neil Bothwick IBM: Inferior But Marketable. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Don't use straight dvdauthor... unless: * You really enjoy editing large XML files hand * Making complex menus * Very familiar with DVD structure Creating the xml files is not that difficult. I have generated animated menus (with buttons which are highlighted on mouse over

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:41:22 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Marc Joliet, Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/. I too use LVM and it yields

Re: [gentoo-user] How to re-sync an out of date machine?

2007-08-30 Thread Dennis Taylor
James Ausmus wrote: On 8/21/07, Dennis Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally I posted a problem with a corrupted portage file. That has since been fixed, now I just plain cannot figure out how to resynchronize with the world. I tried removing all unnecessary packages, and using revdep

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Marc Joliet, I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/. I too use LVM and it yields excellent results. Now that is you have to explain to me. Is the stage2 found regardless due to the hardcoded pointer upon installing? So the 'logical' part of the volume doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:10 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Marc Joliet, I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/. I too use LVM and it yields excellent results. Now that is you have to explain to me. Is the stage2 found regardless due

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Marc Joliet, What I meant was that I have / on a logical volume, so I can't put /root on it. Which is what I used to do, and means you have a separate /boot partition and need an initrd. By combining / and /boot, you have one less partition, the same number of non-LVM partitions and no

[gentoo-user] df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. Since recently, when I ran df, it printed the volume group and logical volume names. Now it prints: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 484602328049151549 69% / udev 10240

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Zsitvai János
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is what I used to do, and means you have a separate /boot partition and need an initrd. By combining / and /boot, you have one less partition, the same number of non-LVM partitions and no initrd. It also means that now I have half a gig going

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Martin
And NFS, well, it's NFS. I don't love it, but I've used NFS exports from a 14.k modem... So... maybe he is having internet issues, router issues, firewall issues, compilation issues... but OpenVPN and NFS, given a relatively good network environment, work more than OK. I would still use tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn and nfsmount

2007-08-30 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Eric Martin wrote: I would still use tcp rather than UDP for NFS if I was going to mount it over a slow network. I did some benchmarks for my wireless and wired network and TCP clearly beats UDP on files over 1MB. I know the wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:06:18 +0200, Zsitvai János wrote: Which is what I used to do, and means you have a separate /boot partition and need an initrd. By combining / and /boot, you have one less partition, the same number of non-LVM partitions and no initrd. It also means that now I

Re: [gentoo-user] df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:45:45 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Any idea about why the hetzner system shows dm-1? And what needs to be done to change that? This appears to be due to a change in 64-device-mapper.rules with udev-115. -- Neil Bothwick Two is not equal to three, even for large

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link yeah, that won't work - gunzip it first.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all This message was sent using IMP, the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/30/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Zsitvai János
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That only means you made / too big, the same would happen if you made /boot too big. My / partition is 400MB and less than 50% full, 300MB would be plenty. And I could easily shrink it down to a sane size were it on LVM. That was kinda the point.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:05:47 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do you think it's slower? slower what? in what sense? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:52:54 -0400 Ryan Sims wrote: On 8/30/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! [...] You could diff the .config with the config that genkernel came up

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:32:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 18:42:38 schrieb Arnau Bria: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link Just to make that point clear: Did you just mv /proc/config.gz /usr/src/linux/.config or did you cp

[gentoo-user] migrating to emacs 22.1

2007-08-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I thought I may as well finally make the shift to emacs 22.1, so I took the plunge the other day! I've migrated most of my .emacs file, got the scrollbar fixed up, but there are a few things remaining: 1. rectangle editing cua mode is now included in the standard distribution, so I've

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:51:44 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make modules_install make all modules_install install from make help: [...] Other generic targets: all - Build all

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-30 Thread Zsitvai János
Hi, I suspect your root is a lot more than it needs to be, does it include /opt? No, it actually turns out that I have a lot of cruft in /root. Outdated portage snapshots, old kernel images moved from /boot when it filled up, mysql binary log files I weren't sure were essential.. Without all

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread don
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:42:38PM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:51:44 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make modules_install make all modules_install install from make help: [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all or I can just hit 'coursor up' and return. ... make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/30/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:51:44 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: and no problems - and one app less that does strange things - or needs to get installed. again... you seem to not know what an initrd is good for bye This message was sent using

[gentoo-user] Mythtv Build Error - ESVN_REPO_URI Not Matched

2007-08-30 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I attempted to build media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14357 and received an error. I Googled on the error but can find no relevant help. I don't know much about how portage works so I am at a complete loss. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've included the emerge output below:

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: and no problems - and one app less that does strange things - or needs to get installed. again... you seem to not know what an initrd is good for besides people using raid? if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-30 Thread Jed R. Mallen
just a different tool. nothing breakthrough about dse's. breakthrough is web2.0. dse has it's place (or users). but for people who know how to organize and has been on the terminal, then the old tools suffice.but as data and storage gets multiplied everyday i guess it will find its way into

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if you don't have a strange setup (like raid), an initrd is good for nothing. $ mount /dev/dm-8 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) got it?? oh, and you don't even need genkernel to have an initrd (gasp!). true... but have you tried to setup

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Personally, I find genkernel really nice (and yes I've got a raided setup)... but even if I didn't I'd still use it. As for those folks that don't like it, well ... it's optional! I guess if I were building kernels for Gentoo and (say) Centos systems, then I might want to use a method that

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if you don't have a strange setup (like raid), an initrd is good for nothing. $ mount /dev/dm-8 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) got it?? as I said, 'strange setup' - but even that is not