[gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of Winblows. I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't register as

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: If so, possibly an error with themes or alpha blending... But why now? Well, one of the things that has been happening in the xorg/qt/kde world is a move towards more eye-candy with transparency, drop shadows, and so on. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? is there a /dev/video/video0? does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output? Output of xawtv -c /dev/video0 This

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I get this output: Gir ~ # v4lctl -v 1 setchannel 5 /dev/v4l/video0 vid-open: trying: v4l2-old... vid-open: failed: v4l2-old vid-open: trying: v4l2... v4l2: open v4l2: device info: saa7134 0.2.12 / Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (saa7134) @ PCI::00:05.0 vid-open: ok: v4l2 freq: reading /usr/share/xawt

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
The problem is almost sure to be the tuner card. Try v4ctl with debug set to check for errors when tuning. (you will need xawtv installed) rattus ~ # v4lctl -v 1 setchannel 2 /dev/v4l/video0 vid-open: trying: v4l2-old... vid-open: failed: v4l2-old vid-open: trying: v4l2... v4l2: open v4l2: device

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: gzip seg faults when uncompressing. Man and info pages work fine as do emerges, and after recompiling zlib, glibc and some other stuff, I still have no clue what the problem is. Before you ask I'm not running ypbind, and have a P4 2.6. Any ideas peoples? That could be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
> Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, > mythtv, now here. True, and I always appreciate the help you offer :-) > You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? I cannot tune in to any channels > is there a /dev/video/video0? Yes: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? is there a /dev/video/video0? does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output? On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:48 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs wrot

[gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-18 Thread Glenn Enright
gzip seg faults when uncompressing. Man and info pages work fine as do emerges, and after recompiling zlib, glibc and some other stuff, I still have no clue what the problem is. Before you ask I'm not running ypbind, and have a P4 2.6. Any ideas peoples? -- SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS ARE NOT SCABS SU

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with rp-pppoe/adsl...

2005-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First routing. When I try to define it as the default route using "route add > -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev w1ad" (where w1ad is the device > name), > route reports "SIOCADDRT: No such device", which is odd because ifconfig

[gentoo-user] Help with rp-pppoe/adsl...

2005-07-18 Thread dnebinger
Okay, guys, this is really driving me nuts... I've got this wonderful new Sangoma S518 ADSL modem card for my server. I'm ready to get this thing working, but it's giving me fits. Basically I need to use their wanpipe software for the card access. That part is fine. It starts up and reports th

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Gola
James Hiscock wrote: >On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. >> >> > >1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: > tune2fs -C ^has_journal > >2) Resize using parted > >3) Add the journal back usi

[gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've been working on this for several days but do not seem to make any progress. I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card which is based on the Philips saa7134 chip. I have recomipled my kernel (2.6.12-gentoo-r6) to include the saa7134 module and i2c support as a module. lsmod output : Module

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev permissions

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 19 June 2005 06:09 pm, Qv6 wrote: > Hello: > > Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the > entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default > or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > >>OK time to play "spot the obvious error" - your command line > > has ATAPI:1,1,0, > whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 > >>try the command line again with the correct device > > > > OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 "Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ne. > > I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; > /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific > administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've > logrotate.c

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > OK time to play "spot the obvious error" - your command line has ATAPI:1,1,0, whereas the device is at ATAPI:0,0,0 > > try the command line again with the correct device OK, I've tried a variesty of wav files, including some saved .wav files from my vonage s

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-18 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I am using splashutils, I believe that this means I am using GenSplash !? On 7/18/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > I tried to use bouth vesafb and vesafb-tng, in tng I used the same > > resolution as the theme agian neather one of then worked > >

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:41:52 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Try checking a file > > called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets > > the permissions of devices during boot. > > No. This has already changed since more than 10 versions of udev. > Permissions are now set in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:56:58 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, I do not now PC Power & Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs so far and > the 'best' was and is an Enermax. > > A friend of mine has Enermax too, reliable good stuff. Yes and no. The basic power supply i

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > > Well looking at that I used: > > cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav > > are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of > > cdrecord --scanbus dev=AT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:54:50 + (UTC) James wrote: > Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > > > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) > > James wrote: > > > > > Well looking at that I used: > > > cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav > > > > are you sure yo

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > > Well looking at that I used: > > cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav > > are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of > > cdrecord --scanbus dev=AT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:03:57 + (UTC) James wrote: > Well looking at that I used: > cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio -v close.wav are you sure you have the right device? What is the output of cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI for reference mine is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdre

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the > verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). > > If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto > at http://tldp.org > Well looking at that I

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Something that's still unclear to me: is the problem with kde, mozilla, or both? If you experience the same problem with mozilla under openbox then your troubles have nothing to do with kde. OTOH, if you there's no problems under openbox then the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
yes i think you should try cdrecord from the command line with the verbose option turned on and see what happens. ( the option is -V). If you need the basics of how to use cdrecord see the cd writing howto at http://tldp.org There is some weird crap with cdrecord and various kernel versions. what

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > have you tried using k3bsetup? Ah, this may be the problem. IN the k3b gui, I went under settings, but did not see anything critical. The only documents I have found are in /usr/share/doc/k3b-0.11.24. Running k3bsetup as root fired up the gui. All of the sel

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: ... IMHO you could first try emerging: glib>k+ and probably in second place: xorg-x11. There are also many image-manupulation libraries: jpeg,png,mng HTH. Rumen I guess it's going to be a long week... Thanks :) Jorge Something that's still unclear to me: is the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Have you tried renaming your .kde3.4/ dir temporarily (while logged out of KDE)? And removed all kde and mcop junk from /tmp? Have you unmerged the old kde ebuilds? And done --depclean? And revdep-rebuild? No. I think a deep cleaning is in ord

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Think i can't of great help here, but at least twice when i had slow graphical performance solved it by re-emerging some packages and xorg-x11 once (i assume you have run 'revdep-rebuild' ;) As it seems your main DM is KDE it's likely that there may be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:26:38 +0200 Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: > > Good afternoon all, > > > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > > particularly notica

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread James Hiscock
On 7/18/05, Bruno Gola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. 1) Remove the journal from the ext3 partition using tune2fs: tune2fs -C ^has_journal 2) Resize using parted 3) Add the journal back using tune2fs: tune2fs -j See 'man tune2fs'

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown _before_ the main window... So, if I understand you correctly, some mozilla controls get drawn long before the titlebar? Is that right? Yep

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
OK well it looks like I have been neglecting my admin duties I am going to proceed with removing the alsa-driver and then go from there, Holly thx for the workaround but I do not feel confident in me ;) I will trust the powers that be and make portage happy, my theory being that portage manages a

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread David Busby
Zac Medico wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to mention this variable. That's odd, it's not in portage(5) either. It is documented in mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: and about the cd-writer, ive tried cdrecord -scanbus, and it appears my CD-writer there, but now, nothing appears... When cdrecord stops it just broke in my display, i cant exit it, just killing... it stops something like that: ATAPI 1: and stops (ive already wait for 1

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might trigger this behavior? There's a porta

[gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? BR Thomas -- Thomas Drueke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 7/18/05, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > create temporary file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:38PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of i

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > cdr and cdrw? We'll 'lshw' shows: product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd so I'd assume cd-rw means read write: Also the Toshiba web page: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854 On Monday 18 July 2005 01:53 pm, Kurt Guenther wrote: > I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas? > > --Kurt > > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) > Writing index file refman.idx > No file refman.aux. > (/usr/share

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Greetings, On 7/18/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. > #lshw : > *-cdrom >description: DVD reader >product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 >vendor: Toshiba >

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-18 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and > different perspectives. > > Zac Medico wrote: > > >Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: > >http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > I'll give that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
have you tried using k3bsetup? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:36:44 + (UTC) James wrote: > Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > > > Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. > Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But > it looks mostly like old windows stuff... > > > So, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might t

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies an

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view before I -aCv the package, the error from this mornings emerge -aDuv world was :- checking for built-in ALSA... "yes" configure: error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Stuart Howard wrote: thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel instalation.

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But it looks mostly like old windows stuff... > So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting > an RW (so you don't spent cds). You sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from the rsync repository. Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it emerged ? BR Thomas It looks like you can grab it from cvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sy

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: > I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the > split ones. > Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. Have you tried renaming your .kde3.4/ dir temporarily (while logged out of KDE)? And removed all kde and mcop junk from /tmp? Have yo

[gentoo-user] Re: QOS

2005-07-18 Thread James
A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > Are there people on the list who are using QOS, i need it to preserve > > 4MB for IP telephonie on a 100Mbit line. > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping Hey, this looks very cool. Have you implemented this with success? HTB (Hierarchial Token Buckets) ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
That sounded nice, if you can come with a "cluster" for compilation you may see good results, I've never used distcc but a friend got three athlon xps running and did it, he was able to install the three gentoos within a day (wich is more than I could ever expect after my 2 days stage1 install with

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thomas Drueke wrote: > I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been > deleted from the rsync repository. > > Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get > it emerged ? See http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ Download the desired o

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Tero Grundström wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > > particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The > > general jist of it was to create tempo

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
In order to use alsa-driver, you must not have alsa compiled in the kernel, I dunno exactly how you got this error using alsa already if everything was working before (unless you changed any settings on your kernel config). Enable only the audio support, compile modules for your sound-cards and let

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 12:21 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > mkdir /etc/portage > echo "> /etc/portage/package.mask that would actually produce negative effects on gnumeric so I'd rather do as other post (by Tero) suggests: mask higher version as no package is requiring it anyway. But thanks for stepping in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Colin
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:14:41 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote: A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:40:18PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Plus, you can charge people if they want to come over and rent your > computing power. (Virginia Tech does that with their "System X," 1,100 > dual-2.3GHz-processor XServe G5's.) :-) As I'm a little short of this total right now, I think

[gentoo-user] Re: Big data Cluster

2005-07-18 Thread James
David Busby edoceo.com> writes: > I'm looking for reccomendations for storage clustering. I'd like to network together some Gentoo boxes > which internally > are SCSI+RAID5 and then be able to store data on these multiple boxes as though they are one big filesystem. > Similar to > what Isilo

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Bruno Gola wrote: Any way to resize a ext3 partition ? I'm trying with parted: I guess you'll have to do it manually with resize2fs and fdisk. Just read the man page carefully, and think of it as a 2 or 3-step process: Growing: 1. use fdisk to grow the partition first. 2. use resi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98854 > > > Thx. I think I was able to work around it. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks as if the several widgets were being shown _before_ the main window... So, if I understand you correctly, some mozilla controls get drawn long before the titlebar? Is that right? If so, possibly an error with themes or alpha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. So, you're still not able to burn them? Try erasing an RW or writting an RW (so you don't spent cds). You should be able to do that with k3b, unless you already have mounted the cd (the erase and burn operations don't need the drive mounted) but I suppose

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a hangover from my initial genkernel instalation. I would like to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread David Morgan
On 13:07 Mon 18 Jul , John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease > compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable > when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to > creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gentoo-kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r31

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Thomas Drueke schreef: > Hi, > > I want to emerge gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31 but it has been deleted from > the rsync repository. > > Is there a way to get the corresponding ebuild-file back to get it > emerged ? > > BR > Thomas > Go to www.gentoo.org, click the "view our CVS" link on the sideb

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 11:23 am, Tero Grundström wrote: > > This is because gnumeric REQUIRES =1.10.0... and when you do a > > -uD it will be upgraded. > > > > You should keep using -uNp instead of -uDNp ;) > > I wouldn't throw away -uDNp just because of this. > > On my system there are only two packages

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Marco Matthies
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you Hi, regarding kde, you might want to try the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
cdr and cdrw? On 7/18/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > > > Ok, you're right, it really does burn cds. > Well googling produces lots of complaints about trouble. But > it looks mostly like old windows stuff... > > > So, you're still not able to burn

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Oh, I see... Well, since you have it builtin and everything is working, maybe its dependent on other app, do you have alsa-utils or anything that could pull alsa-drivers? If you have an old installation and (like me) don't remember exactly the steps for the initial configuration (I used alsa-driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big data Cluster

2005-07-18 Thread David Busby
I just found this one: http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/ So we can make a Linux box an iSCSI target, freaking sweet. Now we can put the clustered initiators in the front with some targets behind. s--- yea! /djb James wrote: David Busby edoceo.com> writes: I'm looking for reccome

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing advice requested

2005-07-18 Thread David Mallwitz
George Garvey wrote: I just installed a T1 to a new ISP using a Sangoma CSU/DSU card. I thought I could use aliased IPs on existing gigE NICS on our LAN to set up the hosts that need an internet routable presence. Maybe that can be done, but not by me. I don't understand enough. I can ge

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly > decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was > particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The > general jist of it was to cr

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: > thx for the response > > I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound > works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am > not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a > hangover from my initial genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm: failed to stop /dev/md1

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Hm, I've noticed on console-screen some strange message when doing shutdown: mdamd: failed to stop /dev/md1 array, device or resource busy [!!] /dev/md1 is mounted as root partition, apart from that I have 7 more /dev/md partitions, all are stopped without any message. Right befo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. > > I set this in make.conf, correct? Correct > Seems logical but man emerge and man > portage don't seem to mention this variable. man make.conf mentions it, as does

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: John J. Foster wrote: OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a question, search again, and there it is. This is not the "thread" I was talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_por

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:05:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. > > > > I set this in make.conf, correct? > > Correct > > > Seems logical but man emerge and man > > portage d

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. > > #lshw : > > *-cdrom > >description: DVD reader > >product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 > >vendor: Toshiba > >capabilities: pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: PORTAGE_TMPDIR determines where portage uses for temporary storage. I set this in make.conf, correct? Seems logical but man emerge and man portage don't seem to mention this variable. That's odd, it's not in portage(5) either. It is documented in make.conf.example thoug

[gentoo-user] emerge libdvdcss - ACCESS DENIED Error

2005-07-18 Thread Kurt Guenther
I've been getting this starting last week Thursday (?). Any ideas? --Kurt (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) Writing index file refman.idx No file refman.aux. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1440 ACCESS DENIED access_wr: /usr/share/texmf/fon

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
John J. Foster wrote: OK, this happens all the time. I search, can't find what I want, post a question, search again, and there it is. This is not the "thread" I was talking about, but it was right in front of me on the Gentoo Wiki. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs Does

[gentoo-user] DVD-cd usage

2005-07-18 Thread James
Hello, I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 in my portable. #lshw : *-cdrom description: DVD reader product: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 vendor: Toshiba physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Howto speed up compilations

2005-07-18 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon all, A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and mount your portage tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/18/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 [2.3.4.2004

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you would be presented with many, many dependencies an

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 18, 2005 09:34 am, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge > > -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is > > one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to > > another. Does any

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:32 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv glibc > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 [2.3.4.20041102-r1] -build -debug > -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls +npt

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: > Hello, >Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach > to installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags > enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you > would be presented with many, many depende

[gentoo-user] mdadm: failed to stop /dev/md1

2005-07-18 Thread Jarry
Hm, I've noticed on console-screen some strange message when doing shutdown: mdamd: failed to stop /dev/md1 array, device or resource busy [!!] /dev/md1 is mounted as root partition, apart from that I have 7 more /dev/md partitions, all are stopped without any message. Right before "shutdown -h

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp >I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week >it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does >anybody know what might trigger this behavior? > > > Hi, At

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I'm trying to avoid a big, bloated system without going too crazy here. > Any suggestions? Your problem is going to be the incremental enabling thing you'd like to do. If you add a new USE flag later on, you need to emerge with the newuse flag which will result in a larger emerge than what you e

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge glibc as it completely fills /var

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, I'm flummoxed. Have I just gotten lucky all these years? I attempted to emerge a new glibc this morning and I cannot because it completely fills my 2.7GB /var partition in the process and I end with a 'no space on device' message! Obviously the emerge doesn't finish and I'm left to clean up and

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp > I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week > it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does > anybody know what might trigger this behavior? > This is

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> >> >> well 512 is most of the time enough, but not always ;) > > I know, but I checked "top". > >> >> hm, if only gtk apps are slow, it is normal - gtk IS slow. Very slow. > > But it wasn't noticeable before... It looks

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