[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem...

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:56:17PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > # emerge --depclean <...> > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the > * packages that pulled them in. > * > * sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4

[gentoo-user] Re: X freezes with ati radeon driver

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:00:07PM +0200, Jacques Montier wrote: > As fglrx ati driver does not work with >gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 kernel > and my ati radeon 9600 (RV350) graphic card, i try to use the free > radeon driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4) > I compiled the gentoo-sources-2.6.31

[gentoo-user] Re: Unclaimed display?

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Mick wrote: > I am looking at the lshw of a compaq desktop with pci-express and a Radeon > X600 and see that it's VGA and secondary dispalyes are "unclaimed". What > does this mean? http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter#Howtointerpretlshwsoutput

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:46:54 Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT > > MODULES. > > Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the > past. > If you do not use an initrd|initra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam writes: > I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to > be incorporated so no I didn't > > If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig > is what I would have used. That is the wrong way round! make oldconfig uses the .config in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > hamilton writes: > > >> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: >> >>> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not hav

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layou

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname > > > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. > > > I have no idea how they are being sent. This just started > > autonomo

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to > work properly under Gentoo? NetworkManager, yes. I just started using it recently. > When I attempt to use either of those > utilities to get onto my wireless n

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm using ~x86. After a few compile problems > the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay well, not anymore. I re-synced; emerged; broke X; fixed X; and now it's all working again. That takes me back to th

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
hamilton writes: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: >> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >>> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >>> 10+ yrs.. >>> >>> Many peopl

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread hamilton
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: > On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >> 10+ yrs.. >> >> Many people here seem to find it com

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt writes: > There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your > old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should, > too, just with oldconfig. I don't know about that. I found a whole lot of stuff different when I ran menuconfig and checked the old and

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to > work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those > utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay > connected to the base stati

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-11-03 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/30/2009 10:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> > > do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the > problem? because it seems to

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. Instead, it continually

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the >> things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have >> messed up mouse and keyboard in X. > > Did you follow the elog instru

Re: [gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, long time no post :) Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL > (woot). > > Glad you are back. Yep, DSL is s nice. I just downloaded TWO DVDs, 4.3Gb each. It took a day but that is better than weeks over dial-up. LOL Now if I had cable, yea baby !! I'm no

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. But even that, is a lesser problem than my kernel build ends up in a kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [

[gentoo-user] Netqmail and local mail

2009-11-03 Thread Momesso Andrea
I've set up a mail server serving 2 domains following this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml The server works fine and can send and recive mails. The problem is that I don't know anymore where to find my local mail, for example mail sent by cron jobs. I'd like to have it forw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/3/2009 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Try recompiling the evdev, mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: > On 11/03/2009 12:23 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> While I am at it >> >> For a while I also face the fact that when I log out of my >> gnome-session, the xorg-server doesn't get up again. It tries to restart >> 3 times and fails, Xorg.0.log says something about "failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Also, you need to compile in the filesystem, not as module.

[gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, long time no post :) Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL (woot). I just upgraded to gnome 2.28, compiz 0.8.4, and various other things in a recent large update. I'm using ~x86. After a few compile problems the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay (I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the > things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have > messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Did you follow the elog instructions about re-emerging drivers?

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng: v2->v3 config issue...

2009-11-03 Thread Jarry
Hi, as syslog-ng 3.0.x became stable, all my servers updated to it from 2.1.4, but I have a problem with configuration: In 2.x I used "log_prefix()" option for "file()" source. When I tried to start syslog-ng 3.x it complained about "log_prefix()" being deprecated, and said I have to use "program

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because > the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. > > Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 N

[gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
091103 Harry Putnam wrote: > building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). > After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the past. And in fact, I didn't record my first builds on this kernel but I'm pretty sure my first build did have all P

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 12:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > walt schrieb: >> Perhaps you have something left over from your gnome session >> that doesn't stop when it should. I see that quite often. > > hmm, any idea how to find that? I use ps ax to see the running processes. Sometimes I see apps ob

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Nov 2009, at 15:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:42:14 Erik wrote: Fine. I think that I found a relevant package: sci-mathematics/ glpk-4.35 It even has an example called "assignment problem". If the package is installed with the USE-flag "examples", the example w

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 12:23 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > While I am at it > > For a while I also face the fact that when I log out of my > gnome-session, the xorg-server doesn't get up again. It tries to restart > 3 times and fails, Xorg.0.log says something about "failed to load load > modules

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 06:32 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): >>> No such device >>> >>> ???lspci begs to differ >> >> I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of >> errors :o( >> >> Are you sure the nvidia module that was ac

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Erik ha scritto: > Alan McKinnon skrev: >> That's because you worded your question like a dumbass user asking someone >> else to do their homework for him. > > I did not mention anything related to homework or that I would still be > a student or anything like that. It was just a standard questio

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Erik
Alan McKinnon skrev: > That's because you worded your question like a dumbass user asking someone > else to do their homework for him. I did not mention anything related to homework or that I would still be a student or anything like that. It was just a standard question of knowing which Gentoo p

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:42:14 Erik wrote: > Fine. I think that I found a relevant package: sci-mathematics/glpk-4.35 > > It even has an example called "assignment problem". If the package is > installed with the USE-flag "examples", the example will be installed to > [/usr/share/doc/glpk-4.

[gentoo-user] Re: program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread James
Erik gmail.com> writes: > Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? > Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) > for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = > 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An addi

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Erik
Dale skrev: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> >> >>> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: >>> >>> Dale ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Mon, 02 N

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: >> >>> Dale ha scritto: >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> And maybe it will

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: > > Dale ha scritto: > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of > > >>> letting a computer

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of > >>> letting a computer do it for him. > >> > >> Maybe the assignment is to write a program t

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Dale ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of >>> letting a computer do it for him. >>> >> Maybe the assignment is to write a program to solve the equation. >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have > forgotten why I had it masked. > > I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to > most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could > expect in the way of problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. > At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) > > It ain't that important although I would like to see them working, it's > a bit hard to understand that issues like this don't just work as wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > walt schrieb: > >> Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. >> But I could be mistaken... > > I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error removing ~/.gconf did the trick, thanks! Ok, I had to readjust so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > walt schrieb: > >> Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. >> But I could be mistaken... > > I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error While I am at it For a while I also face the fact that when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: > Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. > But I could be mistaken... I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error S