Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:13:50AM -0500, Chris Thomas wrote: > I have a Dell laser mouse. > > lsusb: > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse I'm pretty sure it isn't software related. Did you tried various mouse pads or materials ? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Thomas
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:49:37PM -0500, Chris Thomas wrote: > >> I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my >> cursor often jumps to a corner. >> >> Is there a fix? > > It really is a common behaviour with op

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:49:37PM -0500, Chris Thomas wrote: > I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my > cursor often jumps to a corner. > > Is there a fix? It really is a common behaviour with optical mouses. What kind of mouse do you use ? PS : top-posting sucks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> > It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor > movement. It gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Thomas
I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my cursor often jumps to a corner. Is there a fix? -Chris On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: >>> Niko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:57:13 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: ...[snip]... > This is opensource, where you get to bash the code into any shape you > need to get it to suit your needs :-) I myself don't need desktop > patches (yet), but if I did, I would probably first look at the > patches the Ubuntu k

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>> Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf >>> > > > >> That's in /etc/conf.d/rc on mine. Has it moved? >> > > It moved in the switch from baselayout1 to baselayout2/openrc. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf > That's in /etc/conf.d/rc on mine. Has it moved? It moved in the switch from baselayout1 to baselayout2/openrc. -- Neil Bothwick I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be wi

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:06:53 -0800, Matt Edens wrote: > It is defiantly in hotplug, I have the same thing happen on my gentoo > box with dual gigabit net. There is a way to stop it from starting but > I do not remember off the top of my head and cant't look quick as I am > away from that box atm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008 01:06:59 Dale wrote: > >>> I'm not that much of a cynic though. Instead I'll recommend you find a >>> set of desktop patches that work well and roll a kernel from those. The >>> kernel devs are mostly paid by organizations that have a vested inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 29 December 2008 01:06:59 Dale wrote: > > I'm not that much of a cynic though. Instead I'll recommend you find a > > set of desktop patches that work well and roll a kernel from those. The > > kernel devs are mostly paid by organizations that have a vested interest > > in having Linux wor

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Matt Edens
It is defiantly in hotplug, I have the same thing happen on my gentoo box with dual gigabit net. There is a way to stop it from starting but I do not remember off the top of my head and cant't look quick as I am away from that box atm on vacation. Should be something on the wiki that will tell yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor >> > movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's >> > not a point yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > >>> It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor >>> movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's >>> not a point yet where I would descr

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:38:37 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > >> Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. >> What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net >> it shouldn't happen. >> > > Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor > > movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's > > not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the > > trend co

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Simon
How about specified sys-kernel/gentoo-sources instead of vanilla in package.provided. If the nvidia ebuild depends on gentoo-sources and not vanilla-sources...then naturally it will pull in gentoo no matter how many vanilla kernels you have. I haven't tested any of that but it seems logical to

[gentoo-user] ktaskbar missing on and after 2ond login

2008-12-28 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i've just emerged kde-4.1.3 and everything seems to be allright. The problem i'm having is related to the taskbar, after first login (so second one and on) kde taskbar won't appear anymore. It happens using the system as root and as simple system user. I'ts very strange cause on first login i c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:13:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I have this in my make.conf: >>> >>>PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" >>> >>> Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy. >>> Just a >>> few

[gentoo-user] ktaskbar missing on and after 2ond login

2008-12-28 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i've just emerged kde-4.1.3 and everything seems to be allright. The problem i'm having is related to the taskbar, after first login (so second one and on) kde taskbar won't appear anymore. It happens using the system as root and as simple system user. I'ts very strange cause on first login i c

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:38:37 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. > What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net > it shouldn't happen. Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf -- Neil Bo

[gentoo-user] quake3-urbanterror emerge fails: invalid argument

2008-12-28 Thread Strake
When I emerge quake3-urbanterror, the package downloads and compiles fine, but upon trying to merge into /opt/quake3, the following error occurs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6979, in retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6973, in emerge_ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Ian Lee
Harry Putnam wrote: Ian Lee writes: 1) net.eth1 problem There is a udev hook for starting net.* init scripts, /lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules to be precise The script is very brief There is no mention of net.eth1 in that script SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",RUN+="net.sh %k sta

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:58 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I > > can't install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). > > Besides, I would really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel > > alone, completely. >

[gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Ian Lee writes: > 1) net.eth1 problem > > There is a udev hook for starting net.* init scripts, > /lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules to be precise The script is very brief There is no mention of net.eth1 in that script SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",RUN+="net.sh %k start" SUBSYSTEM=="

[gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs writes: > Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:38:37 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> Still, on a shutdown I can't get past this output: >>   >>  hwclock waiting for localmount > > I mentioned it in your other thread. Try masking openrc >=0.4.0. Yeah, just got around to reading that with this

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 15:23:25 schrieb Ian Lee: > I just found this it might help > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/252380 Yes, it did. Thanks a lot. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 December 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 14:12 + schrieb Mick: > > Can you explain why this seemingly random corruption occurs? > > Most likely a broken NIC or NIC-driver. I had this two times (once with > a rented root server). Problems occurred only w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 27 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> Another reason I >> >> didn't put Gentoo on the server is because everyone would start spamming >> >> the forums about lag when I emerge -u world while they're getting frags >> >> in Counter

Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 14:12 + schrieb Mick: > I am struggling to understand why this problem occurs: > > I scp a number of binary files (e.g. videos) from box A to box B. I have > bz2'd them beforehand. At box B I run bzip2 -tv file.bz2, which reports that > all is OK. > > Then I ru

[gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:13:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have this in my make.conf: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy. Just a few hours ago I updated to gcc-4.3.2-r1. Even with nice

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Ian Lee
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:50:41 schrieb Ian Lee: 2) Openrc problem I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runle

[gentoo-user] Corruption of scp'd files

2008-12-28 Thread Mick
I am struggling to understand why this problem occurs: I scp a number of binary files (e.g. videos) from box A to box B. I have bz2'd them beforehand. At box B I run bzip2 -tv file.bz2, which reports that all is OK. Then I run bzip2 -dv file.bz2 but it tells me that some of the contents have

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2008-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:31:36 Mark Knecht wrote: > If you cannot make headway then I'm wondering if maybe you > shouldn't go back to basics. Drop the SSL stuff, connect to the IP > address directly, get it working, and then investigate adding these > other things in until something breaks

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:50:41 schrieb Ian Lee: > 2) Openrc problem > I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have > done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not > done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runlevels these are >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:38:37 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Still, on a shutdown I can't get past this output: >   >  hwclock waiting for localmount I mentioned it in your other thread. Try masking openrc >=0.4.0. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Ian Lee
Harry Putnam wrote: I don't have an entry for net.eth1 in rc-update show I don't have any mention of eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net (only eth0) Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net it shouldn't happen

[gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

2008-12-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I don't have an entry for net.eth1 in rc-update show I don't have any mention of eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net (only eth0) Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net it shouldn't happen. I have a few other

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 20:41:25 schrieb Simon: > The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't > install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). Besides, I would > really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely. Is the eeepc your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 16:48:19 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > > > > What could help you here is a "make xconfig". It's similar to "make > > menuconfig" but has a nice QT user interface. I would recommend to > > browse through it once and look at the help texts which ar