Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 November 2008, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > >> On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > >> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Dirk Uys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> not really. For an enduser --verbose isn't very helpfull. >> >> > > Don't know if I qualify as an end-user, but I find: > Kernel driver in use: > very usefull. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: >> On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

2008-11-13 Thread Simon
Airodump-ng shows an empty table. I've seen the empty results also... The problem seems to be intermittent. But the location seems to be in relationship to the problem also; At home, I got blank results once out of a hundred scans I done... at my friend's place, I got only blank results out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> as root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> as root: lspci > > > > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as root: lspci > > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own > user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up > different to everyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> as root: lspci > > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own > user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up > differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 November 2008 23:05:09 Dan Wallis wrote: > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as root: lspci > > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own > user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up > different to every

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to everyone else? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-11-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/06/08 08:01, Grant wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this done. Can anyone recommend a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:00 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>> That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer >>> now. Notice that the warning at the start of its output has >>> disappeared now? >>> > > > >> That is true but let's say a person upd

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing lyx-1.6.0

2008-11-13 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2008/11/12 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 15:11:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> What's your experience ? > > Works fine for me. > > Bye... > >Dirk > > For me it is working all right ... try a reinstall ! -- Andrés

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Moore
On 12:40 Thu 13 Nov , Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > > later portage > > Why ? > > I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-13 Thread noro kamen
2008/11/12 b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Does anybody know how to compile Xgl on Gentoo box ? > > Xgl has been discontinued: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl > > Can't you do the same with AIGLX in Xorg? > So it seems to be funny now ... there is too many obsolete projects Xnest, Xephyt, Xgl,

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:29 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > > later portage > > Why ? Because some of them require a later EAPI than portage 2.1 provides. You'll be told if you try to install such a package. -- Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > later portage Why ? I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without any problem¹. What kind of changes in ebuilds explains the use of p

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossdev won't go away

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:25:31 Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Peter, > > on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50:32AM +, you wrote: > > I'm still having a bit of bother with crossdev. If I emerge -upDvtN > > world I get this warning (omitting the N makes no difference): > > > > !!! The following ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:53:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: > ... boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to > install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to > install Gentoo, [any] suitable working Linux environment will do the job, > and an existing

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:23 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > ps. Will it be ok if I upgrade portage to an unstable version while It's not unstable, it's testing. > running a stable portage tree? There's no such thing. There is one portage tree with different ARCH settings for individual ebuilds. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Dirk Uys wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to >> update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that >> version is blocked by the existing player. There are

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >> anything other than grub these days?) > > Yes. I use LILO. My

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to > update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that > version is blocked by the existing player. There are two alternatives > > Unm

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:05 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on > vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 > [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB > [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB > [blocks B