Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Tried that...python3.1 compiles fine, setuptools failed. > > And now? How about putting dev-python/setuptools into /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Alex Schuster [10-06-20 15:16]: >> How about putting dev-python/setuptools into >> /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? > I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way. > So I believe (=not knowing)

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know > what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I > know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't > have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about t

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit > in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can > keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the > integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL

[gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no ph

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
And again, I had already written an answer to your last posting, but then my dreaded mouse problem in KDE4 happened again, and I forgot to save the mail as draft before logging out and in again. Mick writes: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get: > > * Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If > * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the > * above message. You could force installation with FEATURES="-collision-

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: > I followed now the wiki page: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 Down again. > At the step to create the config file with: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > and install grub2 with: > grub-install /dev/sda > > it needs several hours to complete each of th

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last > > Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some > > pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain > > user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? > > > > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user > > still shows all settings as "en_U

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads At least I thought so, what else could be the cause. But I just emerged aterm, and the default is also to be not a login shell. There is a -ls option

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels > or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this > in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these > > things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move > > over to the video system Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated. Similar problems a

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com writes: > My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized > web browser with a page with pictures and text. > If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and > the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it > takes a moment. > I tried ubuntu livecd, and this test was much > fa

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > As the OP, I'd like to know if anybody else has noticed how far OT this > thread has gone? > Somebody please give it a meaningful title, and maybe the right people > will notice your thread But I think the title is just perfect! Well, not really, because, despite my

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Chen Huan writes: > I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To > avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute "emerge --sync", I > make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild > > when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it, > the output is

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: > My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized > web browser with a page with pictures and text. > If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and > the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it > takes a moment. Is there disk activity when this happens? W

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mateusz Mierzwiński writes: > I have KDE4. It work's perfect. Whooo, now at least this sounds good! > Try set "Custom-cxxflags" to off, > maybe this will help. From my opinion KDE and QT 4 don't like > customized C/CXX Flags, such as fomit-frame-pointer and similar. I have: CFLAGS="-march=k8-ss

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hasan SAHIN writes: > I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the > CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" option. > > Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sure, as long as you are not using distcc, in which case the distcc servers would compile according to _their_ nati

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:38:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I used to be a big Konqueror fan until about six months ago. Then I > > tried Chromium and was blown away by its speed and the way it works > > on more sites. I do miss some of the integration of Konqueror and > > its kio-sl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit, > > it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even > > has web shortcuts, which are a must

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: > So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I > tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK="swap" to make the device appear as /dev/swap, too. > Also I'm thinking how can I instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: > [...] > > Hello, > > > But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit > > activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No > > such device o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Here's a list of my current KDE bugs. There are many, fortunately most > of them are really minor issues. [58 KDE bugs] I forgot two. kio_thumbnail does not seem to save the results, and scans folders again, causing loads of 20. And the password dialog when the screen was blanked do

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) > > ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments > > Looking at this line it shows > if test $ax_python_header != no; then > > So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. > > Putt

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-13 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: > But still, pppd call does not work. The system seems to be > dialing, I see familiar messages, but that's it, no more messages at > all. > > When I just tried that again, the

Re: [gentoo-user] unmounting /usr in single user mode

2010-07-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: > I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. > I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. > The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related > to bash and locale (see the files below). > > I use grub. On the kernel line c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > That's impossible, isn't it? I think so. > > Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even > > from a chroot? > > > > Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing > > flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a > non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me > to do so. Great. I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming & Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: > On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is > > more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people > > access the same session at once. So I (being remote) tried s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the "K" > (application launcher) menu. > I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the online help > manual says it should exist on the "K" menu, or as the program > "kcontrol". That's how it was cal

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Kevin O'Gorman writes: > >> I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the "K" > >> (application launcher) menu. > >> I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the onli

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:46:23 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Or just right click on the "K" thingy and select "menu editor". > > > > Yeah, it's right there in K -> Programs -> Settings, but only because > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone "bad"...

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: > Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source > drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl. > gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've > been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without > problems (

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: > > On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that > > > old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. > > > > Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: > > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch > > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)). > > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. Are all these directories located on the root file system?

Re: [gentoo-user] pecl-cairo ~x86 overlay?

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael M writes: > Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*. Is > there a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86? I've tried unmasking this > package and adding the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install > with emerge but my system is ~x86. > > According to this site it is

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Matt Harrison writes: > Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving > mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should > support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. > > My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports > invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout upgrade

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > I went down the bl2/openrc path a long time ago and there were some > unpleasant moments. But overall it was ok. I had no trouble at all, but I may just have been lucky. > At the moment 'devfs' needs almost a freaking minute to start and I > have no clue why. Stra

Re: [gentoo-user] bashcomp cannot work well with rsync

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: > after i enabled bash completion for rsync, i got this error when type > TAB to auto complete the file name > > bash: _known_hosts_real: command not found > > > it used to work very well. do i missed something? Maybe googling :) Does this help? http://bugs.gentoo.org/301632

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on LUKS

2010-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: > I'm building a new Gentoo system (notebook) and want to rearrange a few > things. I thought it would be good to have the following layout: > > - boot on a normal partition > - root on a normal partition > - one big encrypted partition (dmcrypt / LUKS) > - on that par

Re: [gentoo-user] finding out current softlevel

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
li...@gabriel-striewe.de writes: > I was wondering whether there is some way to find out the current > running softlevel (which I gave to the kernel line in grub's > menu.lst), for example to start another window manager depending on > the softlevel or whatever other possible solutions? Maybe in a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code > tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the > app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it? Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command: ebuild /p

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Petric Frank writes: > All hints are welcome. I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 11. Aug 10:48 /tmp If this ^ t is missing, do a chmod +t /tmp, and try again. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: root in LVM with ext4 as mount ext2

2010-08-12 Thread Alex Schuster
sam new writes: > any one help? Yes, google. With 'rootfstype=ext4 initrd genkernel' the first hit shows bug #221245 (rootfs is incorrectly mounted as ext2). I assume you have ext4 compiled as module? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. > I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about > conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Nganon writes: > Hello all, > > My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something > that I started > to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two > main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most > efficiently. > > 1. Apart from users' h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 > > I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd, > the file (obviously) get overwritten. > > I tried to search, but didn't find any

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried > pressing both touchpad buttons at once to emulate middle mouse bu

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: > So after that rambling intro, is there a package/utility that will tell > me, when in this situation, what package needs > "oldPackageNoLongerNeeded" and why it is being brought into my emerge. Try these: - add -t to your emerge -pNuD world command - emerge --depcean

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: > I've added to a number of KDE bugs relating to problems with 4.3.1 . Thanks for doing so! Hopefully this will improve KDE. I also have a huuuge list of KDE bugs, but I am still at 4.2, and I hope at least some of them have been fixed already. But I will wait with the updat

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Dienstag 29 September 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Philip Webb writes: > > > I've added to a number of KDE bugs relating to problems with 4.3.1 . > > > > Thanks for doing so! Hopefully this will improve KDE. > > > &g

xorg-server update (was: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update)

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > And then... some days ago I wanted to try ati-drivers-9.8, and had to > upgrade 6 packages, xorg-1.6 and such. I quickpkg'd them, tried the new > drivers (no success of course), downgraded with --usepkg, and still I > cannot get it to work again. I am

[gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Not really specific to gentoo, except that I want to do this with a Gentoo PC: Is it possible to attach my Gentoo PC 'G' to another PC 'W' (running Windows) via USB, so that G appears to be a removable media to W? I think you need special USB cables with some electronics in the middll

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: > Marco wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > after emerge --sync && emerge --update world --deep my keyboard (in X) > > does not work anymore. Since I am switching to slim after boot, I > > cannot even change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I guess something > > went wrong with the Xorg-update.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > Dale writes: > > I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a > > console. > > I'll bite ... what is it? Some magic commands involving the SysRq key allow actions even if the system hangs and does not respond. Alt-SysRq-R for example resets the keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Rohit writes: > I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make > drives of one machine available to the other. > It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The > >> combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key > That's the one. I think its either the second or third key that makes > it go back to a console. It is nice to know about. I have it taped to > my wall for reference. It beats

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Rohit writes: > >> I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make > >> drives of one machine available to the other. > >> It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): > > > > But nowhere near as clear. > > And it's quicker to type "$(" - muscle mem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Well, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6 and guess what, it was a bust, > AGAIN. I moved xorg.conf, re-emerged the xf86-input-* stuff and it did > do a little better. I bumped the mouse and the pointer moved, then it > locked up and my fans started spinning up so I assume the CPU was g

Blank screen after Xorg update (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED])

2009-10-11 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > At the moment I am away for two days from my machine, and so I am doing > the BIG update now. xorg-server is upgraded to 1.6.3.901-r2, I followed > the upgrade guide and also did the libxcb stuff. I removed then kdeprefix > use flag, unmerged all of kde-4.2, updated world, depcleaned. N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I wrote: > >> And then... we will see. Come on, Gentoo, surprise me, and give me a > >> running KDE 4.3 desktop with X and OpenGL and mouse and keyboard. That > >> would be great. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > walt writes: > > What I do when faced with an X problem is to type "X" at a console > > prompt and see if the bare X server starts up normally, i.e. with the > > black-and- white background pattern and the x-cursor. That at least > > will separate the kde bugs from the xorg bugs. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem.

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Igor Spiridonov writes: [gentoo 10.0 CD install problems] If you have trouble with the Gentoo CDs, you can use just any other livecd you like, like Knoppix or GRML. Boot the system, open a browser to view the installation handbook, and do the installation. When configuring the kernel, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
daid kahl wrote: > > Not really specific to gentoo, except that I want to do this with a > > Gentoo PC: Is it possible to attach my Gentoo PC 'G' to another PC 'W' > > (running Windows) via USB, so that G appears to be a removable media to > > W? I think you need special USB cables with some elect

Re: [gentoo-user] less cannot work with emerge

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 16 October 2009 14:05:33 Xi Shen wrote: > > when i use emerge, there are too many packaged that they cannot > > displayed in one screen. but i cannot use less to separate it into > > pages. why? please help ;) Well, what happens if you try? > it works here for

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: Am I doing this right

2009-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: > > It's all explained here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml > > I read the guide when I first set up distcc, but it didn't provide > enough detail for me to understand. I have two computers, a slow one > and a fast one. I would like the fast one to assist the

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: Am I doing this right

2009-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: > I see those lines in /var/log/messages on the fast machine: > > carter ~ # grep dcc_job_summary /var/log/* > grep: /var/log/mailman: No such file or directory > /var/log/messages:Oct 17 09:09:31 carter distccd[16791]: > (dcc_job_summary) client: 192.168.1.4:51319 COMPIL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller has a cool idea: > On 16 Oct 2009, at 12:58, Alex Schuster wrote: [I want a Linux PC to act as USB mass storage device] > The hack that springs to mind is to see if you can pick up an Openmoko > Freerunner with a broken screen. I'd guess you might be able to pick > one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop won't remote print

2009-10-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > The printer prints from the machine it's attached to no problem. With > remote printing, I think that one file is all that's necessary on the > client. And maybe not even that, I have clients running on which I did not configure anything at all. My client.conf's entry is "Server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: license mask

2009-10-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > In make.conf: > >ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" > > to unmask all licenses. Or else name the licenses you wish unmasked one > by one. Another option is to create /etc/portage/package.license and put the licenses you want to accept in here. The portage man page has a little

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Could it be that all this is caused by KDE-4.3 going stable? Perhaps I > should now bite the bullet unmerge all my KDE-3.5 packages and start a > mammoth emerge of KDE-4 ? Uh, I am running KDE 4 for half a year now, but it still lacks stability. I still like it, and I can live

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > 2009/10/20 Alex Schuster : > I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror > (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop > overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and > jump straight into KDE4 w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > KMail is fine on 4.3.2. I had issues with it randomly crashing when I > moved mails around, but that seems to have been sorted with the latest > version. I also had some problems, when moving some thousands of IMAP mails, but I also had this with 3.5. I am using thunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > I have removed pambase from world (how did that end up in there?) and > rebuilt PyQt4 with sql and webkit, as well as net-libs/libgadu with > threads that came up when I tried to run update world. Now I have a > lorry load of KDE4 packages wanting to be installed: > > 238 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: > On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: > > Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh > > settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. > > How do I go about copying them over? > > I did > > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Hmm ... wonder if this is also why > kdewallet (or modern equivalent) is no longer there? The KDE4 still has the kdewallet which I find quite useful. As I started my KDE4 setup from scratch, I saved the wallet with KDE3.5 and imported that in KDE4. Wonko

[gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Now all this X stuff is becoming really annoying. I struggled for days to get it to work again after the upgrade to 1.6. I have a Radeon HD3200 and tried using fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa, or no xorg.conf at all. I got a blank screen only and no apparent errors in the Xorg log. So i

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: >I have a couple of old Asus Pundit-R machines that I use for MythTV > frontends which had the same sort of problems - a specific ATI VGA > 9100 IGP design built into the chipset and I needed TVo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) > > which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers > > might still work for a while, but only with ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ? Config file and logs are already here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/ Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster > wrote: > What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the > monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby mode? The monitors complain about bad frequencies. The TFT then enters s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > BTW - EVERY problem I was having when I dealt with this sort of thing > a couple of months ago was visible in some sense in the Xorg.0.log > files. I would look for errors, figure out what was causing them, > mostly being config issues in my case, and then fix them and try >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Sebastian Beßler writes: > Am 27.10.2009 02:03, schrieb Dale: > > This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message > > sent to me a loong time ago. > > > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B > > Yes, it i

[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-10-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Any idea why this happens? It's no problem, I'm just curious. r...@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 [ebuild R ] kde-bas

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] emerge -a @preserved-rebuild suggests to rebuild two packages, but continues to do so after emerging them. [...] > > r...@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > > > These are the packa

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> >> @preserved-

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Marcus Wanner writes: > Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the > entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for > how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being > (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > > > Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that > > did the trick. > You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the > two packages get marked stable before some othe

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

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean does not remove due to link level dependencies

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Again, this is just something I am curious about, not a real problem. emerge -p --depclean gives me this output: [...] Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Checking for lib consumers... >>> Assigning files to packages... * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or

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

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > # 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 pulled in by: > * dev-lang/php-5

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 + Peter Haworth wrote: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Device0" > > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > > EndSection > > tried with only that section, it hangs and had to reboot Did

Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: > > I have hal support in it, but also still keyboard and mouse sections > > in xorg.conf. I also have > > Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" > > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > > in the ServerLayout section to make them still work. so I can easi

Re: [gentoo-user] Another angle on hal/xorg thread

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but > at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags? It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for x.org, but for other thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Has mysql become compulsory - Part 2

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > On Dienstag 10 November 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:26:33 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > amarok works great here. > > > > Everything works great somewhere, even Windows :P > > seroiously, what does not work great with amarok? it c

Re: [gentoo-user] license change in sun-jdk

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Rudmer van Dijk writes: > On Monday 09 November 2009, Dale wrote: > > Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > > well it turns out that sun-jdk-1.6.0.17 has suddenly been license > > > masked... > > > > > > adding ACCEPT_LICENSE="dlj-1.1" to make.conf lets sun-jdk be > > > accepted again. no more spontaneous fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then > going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper > then let it update. Something like: > > emerge -C device-mapper && emerge -uvDN world > > That's my plan at least. Unless someone else po

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