Re: [gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, b.n. wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: On Tuesday 19 February 2008, b.n. wrote: 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I'd not be surprised if it did. Windows drivers work around buggy BIOSes all the time.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Joseph wrote: On 02/20/08 11:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is about 8M large Hi Alan, I had python 2.4.4 installed on my AMD64

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-21 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ] /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-21 Thread Matthias Guede
2008/2/21, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When trying to emerge ./python /usr/bin/emerge python I got an error: ./python /usr/bin/emerge python Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... Emerging (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 to / * Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread James
Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? Should it be avoided completely? James --

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:53:56PM +, James wrote: Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Vim syntax highlighting does not show it in red, so I guess it means it is considered

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? Should it be avoided completely? James Not

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? Should it be avoided completely? James

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 21 February 2008, James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? It's safe. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread KH
James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? Should it be avoided completely? James Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread justin
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:53:56 + (UTC), James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, KH wrote: James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Brennan
OK ... I think I've made a little more progress, but I think I am still missing something I switched to the Open Source ATI Drivers. But there are issues with this :/ 1) I can't play Doom3, so if I want to, I have to switch drivers are restart X but that's not the bigger issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Joseph wrote: Thanks for the input folks. running 'which python' did not find any python so I had to add python to the path: PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH That directory should be in your PATH anyway. Add it and /usr/local/sbin as well in your .bashrc Strange that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work !

2008-02-21 Thread Joseph
On 02/21/08 13:05, Henry Gebhardt wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) * checking Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking python-gentoo-patches-2.4.4-r4.tar.bz2 ;-) ...[ ok ] /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory /usr/bin/env:

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking bridging

2008-02-21 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a Bridge for Qemu to use. I followed the guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO:_Qemu#Using_TUN.2FTAP_interface_as_a_normal_user but when ever the bridge starts, I loose connectivity outside of my

[gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-21 Thread Alma J. Wetzker
I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and libwthreads.so.12. I have tried to re-emerge guile, g-wrap and slib, none of them build the library that I need. (slib also does not link the scm functions that it looks like gnucash

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I generate libguile-ltdl.so?

2008-02-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008, Alma J. Wetzker wrote: I just updated portage and tried to update gnucash. The compile errors out trying to find libguile-ltdl.so.1 and libwthreads.so.12. I have tried to re-emerge guile, g-wrap and slib, none of them build the library that I need. (slib

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu ? If the latter, check that