Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 September 2008 18:43:35 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008 18:43:35 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 09:28:41 Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # revdep-rebuild -i --ask- I entered this -- Encountered unrecognized option --ask. -- It said this -- revdep-rebuild no longer automatically passes unrecognized options to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 09:28:41 Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # revdep-rebuild -i --ask- I entered this -- Encountered unrecognized option --ask. -- It said this -- revdep-rebuild no longer automatically passes unrecognized options

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module

2008-09-02 Thread Roland Puntaier
Hello Xavier, here is the .config. I just realized that there went something wrong when I put dmesg output onto the USB stick: the file is empty. But as mentioned there are a lot of Unknown symbol entries. All but request_module are from sound modules. Many thanks for your help. Roland # #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:12:33 Dale wrote: Which is what the output was telling you all along. Previously you didn't need the --, but that leads to all manner of horrible screw-ups   A, I gotcha.  Keep in mind I'm not a programmer here.  Not real sure what the -- means

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:42:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's just a convention. revdep-rebuild launches some other process (emerge) so when it does that it takes everything it finds on it's own command line after the -- and passes it on to emerge literally. it's quite a common trick,

Re: [gentoo-user] sound hosed after running python-updater

2008-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:11:45AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote I found a thread on the gentoo forums discussing this problem. It seems some pcm plugins need to be specified. So I specified all of them! reemerged alsa-libs and tools, utils, etc. Still the same error message! Did you list

[gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available? camille ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Boris Fersing
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 13:51, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available? Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Xav'
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:51:14 -0500, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available?

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread ert256
[ 02.09.2008 13:51 ], Michael Sullivan : Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available? camille ~ # df -h Filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 02:15 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: David Relson wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: David Relson wrote: G'day, Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, found that I have problems with my numeric

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
080902 various people discussed: Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I have the keypad arrows set to move the curse (like the mouse). IIRC it's a setting somewhere in KDE.

[gentoo-user] virtual consoles messed up after starting gnome

2008-09-02 Thread John covici
Hi. My virtual consoles are using a framebuffer and when I start gnome using the latest nvidia-drivers, soon thereafter my virtual consoles get messed up and I get the following in my log files: Sep 2 07:35:05 ccs kernel: uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0xff04, err=0) Now I saw on google

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:01:13PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: I was finally able to cobble together a working flex/bison parser from the bison-bridge example in an appendix to the flex info page. I'd like to share it, and perhaps other _working_ sample programs to the web

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 2 September 2008, 07:01, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been teaching myself scanners over the summer, thinking to teach my students this fall. It was hard because just about all of the examples are inadequate for one of these reasons: 1 They are pure lex, or pure yacc, not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB available? camille ~ # df -h

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy Wright wrote: On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. I'd just thought I'd let everyone know there has been good progress here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I

[gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Ale
Hi all! i am running Gentoo in a Dell Inspiron 1420, using XFS as fs for / and /home, ext2 for /boot, leaving 40 Gb for other things (probably a lvm to run vms). I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. Thanks, Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you have space left, but the inodes are all used up. Typical problem for fs like extX. What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the current standard? I would verify that you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Sullivan schrieb am 02.09.2008 19:05: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-09-02 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Florian, on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:55:14AM +0200, you wrote: Hmm, you might be right. Maybe someone should do a field test. I think we have a candidate here on the list... ;) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [02.09.08 15:40]: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you have space left, but the inodes are all used up. Typical problem for fs like extX. What fs should I use instead? For future reference what's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread kashani
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you have space left, but the inodes are all used up. Typical problem for fs like extX. What fs should I use instead? For future

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and journalling isn't needed for filesystems that contain temporary data. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread felix
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:03:35PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: /dev/sda6 78G 74G 0G 100% / with 5% reserved for root he would see 5% free. These are truncated integers. 78.0G * 5% = 3.9G 78.9G * 5% = 3.945G Looks like 5% to me. --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` removing old version of Python

2008-09-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:57:03 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: But it is a *negativ* condition: portage is not depending on pycrypto if and only if the build useflag is specified, which noone should specify. portage depends on =python-2.5 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-09-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 30 August 2008, Stroller wrote: On 18 Aug 2008, at 08:04, Mick wrote: ... When you updated the ca-certificates, you should have gotten a postinst message about broken symlinks that you need to remove. Oops! I had missed that. Looks good now: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and journalling isn't needed for filesystems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the fastest filesystem and journalling isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:38:01 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy Wright wrote: On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. I'd just

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:15:03 -0300, Ale wrote: I am thinking if i will get better performance mounting /var/tmp/ and/or /usr/portage in other partition. I use ext2 for each of these, as it is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:05:53 Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your root-partition. These days you have absolutely no guarantee that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 22:26:08 Florian Philipp wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 21:14:25 Florian Philipp wrote: You should also consider putting them near the beginning of the disk. You can do this by booting a live-CD and use gparted to move your

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:26:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: /tmp and /var/tmp/portage are good candidates for tmpfs. /tmp is already on tmpfs, I don't have enough RAM to build OOo with /var/tmp on tmpfs :( -- Neil Bothwick From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs

2008-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:56:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I believe that it is left as an exercise for the reader to manually remove such broken lists as your WARN message tells you: Or install app-misc/symlinks and let it track them down. -- Neil Bothwick Stop metricationists! They are demanding

[gentoo-user] YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone confirm? Here's a high-res video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd3WU5l38fmt=18 (Usually, you can just add fmt=18 at the end of the URL to

Re: [gentoo-user] YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Nicola
Alle martedì 2 settembre 2008, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone confirm? Here's a high-res video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd3WU5l38fmt=18

[gentoo-user] Re: YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nicola wrote: Alle martedì 2 settembre 2008, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone confirm? Here's a high-res video:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 02 September 2008 23:16:50 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Nicola wrote: Alle martedì 2 settembre 2008, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Hal Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:05:53 Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird df listing

2008-09-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can someone please explain to me what's going on with /dev/sda6? I couldn't log into GNOME after my reboot yesterday, and when I asked for a df listing in the console, I got this. Shouldn't there be 4GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Graham Murray
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Flash 9 can play it. I'm just wondering if everyone here who uses Flash 10 has the same problem. I think that I am, but had not associated the problem with HD until reading your post. I noticed that after upgrading to Flash 10 that I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 23:16:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nicola wrote: Alle martedì 2 settembre 2008, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: I'm using Flash 10_beta20080811. All high-resolution content on YouTube gives a We're sorry, this video is no longer available. error. Can someone

[gentoo-user] Re: YouTube HD unusable with Flash 10?

2008-09-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Graham Murray wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that Flash 9 can play it. I'm just wondering if everyone here who uses Flash 10 has the same problem. I think that I am, but had not associated the problem with HD until reading your post. I noticed that after upgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-02 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:38:01 Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using 177.70 on a 8600m GT here, and still running into stability issues (random crashes, X stops responding for 10 seconds and sometimes for ever). However, performance is a lot better - far from perfect,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:32:49 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: 080902 various people discussed: Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I have the keypad arrows set to move the curse

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 2. September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:26:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: /tmp and /var/tmp/portage are good candidates for tmpfs. /tmp is already on tmpfs, I don't have enough RAM to build OOo with /var/tmp on tmpfs :( me too - but I don't build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
080902 David Relson wrote: 080902 Philip Webb wrote: I have the keypad arrows set to move the cursor (like the mouse). IIRC it's a setting somewhere in KDE. Might this be the cause/problem ? I don't think that a KDE setting is the issue as I'm a Gnome user :- However the numeric keypad's

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4

2008-09-02 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:24 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It fails to build on one particular system: Traceback (most recent call last): File configure.py, line 30, in module import sipconfig ImportError: No module named sipconfig make: *** No targets specified and no

Re: [gentoo-user] solved: dev-python/PyQt4

2008-09-02 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Heh, of course now I see this mail ^_^ -Pariksheet On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: OOPS, Further goolgling led me to bug 218874: reemerging dev-python/sip fixed this bug for me. fixed and closed. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Okay, thanks for the responses. Some want this a lot, some not so much. For the benefit of those who care, I created a GoogleGroup for the purpose. It's called Compilers, but the URL and email address had to use compilerSamples to avoid conflicts. http://groups.google.com/group/compilerSamples

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 2 September 2008, 07:01, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been teaching myself scanners over the summer, thinking to teach my students this fall. It was hard because just about all of the examples are inadequate for

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question

2008-09-02 Thread Jarry
Alan McKinnon wrote: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null 957169664 bytes (957 MB) copied, 17.5531 s, 54.5 MB/s dd if=/dev/sda12 of=/dev/null 820854784 bytes (821 MB) copied, 21.4136 s, 38.3 MB/s What do you conclude from this? I'd say that /dev/sda2 is near beginning of disk (outer side, more

Video - Desi Student in Class

2008-09-02 Thread Bk....
/dc:date> http://www.mail-archive.com/google-maps-api@googlegroups.com/msg01378.html Re: Adding a restaurant icon for local search 2008-09-04T06:34:37 http://www.mail-archive.com/google-maps-api@googlegroups.com/msg01377.html Adding a restaurant icon for local