Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia optimus no signal on external monitor

2013-08-26 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:56 AM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've managed to get optimus works on my PC with nvidia property driver. But I got into an issue when trying to extend my screen to an external monitor by using Xrandr. There is no signal in the external monitor but

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia optimus no signal on external monitor

2013-08-26 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 08/27/13 02:48:38 CST, James Ausmus wrote: Since you're using the proprietary driver, have you tried using the nvidia-settings configuration program to set up the second monitor? Tried, tt can't detect out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Dale. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:37:49PM -0500, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamercolleen.beamerat  gmail.com  writes: Any ideas? Now keep in

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com  wrote: Ask kde what's their timeline to release 4.6.1. Add 30 days. Not before then. AFAIK the release date for 4.6.1 is scheduled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.

2010-10-13 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:38 AM, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote: However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to see in console current network transfer rate for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] with top command. Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit would be enough for

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2010 18:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2010 10:47, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:46:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Neil is likely correct - filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-16 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: snip Mar 16 01:55:54 smoker udevd[1275]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules:42 snip

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: Hi there, Upgrading some packages today I saw: Qt3 is deprecated and unsupported, both upstream and by the Gentoo Qt Project. x11-libs/qt:3 will be removed from portage soon. See

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 1/21/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE): ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in Call Stack (most recent call

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Try re-emerging kde-base/kdelibs - both kde4-config and libkdecore.so* are owned by kdelibs. -James I think I tried that and it failed. I'm going to try it again and see if it helps. I know I tried a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card

2010-01-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.comwrote: I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat and put songs on it. That's all fine. However, I put an expansion

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: snip That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do much in that situation. Dale Pshaw... ;) ctrl-alt-F1, or, if that doesn't work: alt-SysRq-R alt-F1 Of course, method 2 only works if you have the Magic

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Ausmus wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto: rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: snip That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do much in that situation

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the Magic SysRq keys. Did ctrl-alt-del not do anything, or a single press of the power

Re: [gentoo-user] when emerging: Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2 messages

2010-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is listed at the end of the emerge process: Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2 May I ask for advice? Never seen that issue before, but maybe try

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've tried (for the first time) to install the source version of firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7 with useflags alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de linguas_en sqlite

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 04:44, James Ausmus wrote: ... This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right now, but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the future easily, and get

Re: [gentoo-user] does the aqua use flag still valid in gentoo 2008?

2010-01-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i want to try to enable the aqua flag with my kde. but it is displayed as (-aqua) when i try to emerge kde. i searched the network, and people say it is disabled by my profile. i am using the

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas roni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellows, I already sent this e-mail to Dev ML but I decided to sent it also to user ML to get more feedbacks. I started to code a new application to make some daily tasks easier with portage. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread James Ausmus
2010/1/5 Szénási István sze...@gmail.com And what about the BFS scheduler? I know, that it isn't in the mainline kernel, bit I've heard a lot of good about that. If you send me the size and the number of the test files, I'll make an other benchmark with the CFQ, the Deadline and the BFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] how to know which driver a device is using?

2009-12-01 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, when i start my system from gentoo live dvd, all my hardware works fine. but if i want to have a small system, so i removed many drivers when i am compiling my own system. the result is some times, i do not know

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but startx works

2009-11-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post your

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

2009-11-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.comwrote: I've started seeing this line after failed emerges: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Please send the contents of the config log for the

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

2009-11-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.comwrote: snip configure:2138: gcc --version 5 gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc' There's your problem right there, Vern... ;) Run gcc-config -l Pick the gompuler that looks best (most likely #1), then run

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok can't use mysql collection

2009-11-17 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: snip Amarok, it was nice knowing you. One day you might build and play music again on all sane systems out there. Meanwhile, I think I want to hear songs play so some other player is going on this machine and you

Re: [gentoo-user] MySql versus sqlite. Don't want sqlite anymore.

2009-11-17 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, KDE 4 was having issues with sqlite not working correctly. After reading about and people telling me that mySql works better, I installed mySql. Its big and all but at least it works. Anyway, I changed the USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman and eix-sync

2009-11-12 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2009/11/12 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I'm wondering if something is set differently here. After running eix-sync, there were updates from the layman part. I got lines like this: Fetching (15 of 16)

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought

2009-11-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have 4 nearly identical machines (same brand and model of motherbaord) with AMD 790GX + SB750 Chipsets containing an (onbaord) Radeon HD 3300 graphics chip. All of these run identical systems kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: snip I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then downloaded a flv video and played; no sound. But got some clue. First off -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !]

2009-10-30 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: After a long search on the net I've found out that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong (root.usb) It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends sets the user to root and the group to

Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories

2009-10-29 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: All, I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different options: - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Callen wrote: Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. Just the q command has more than a dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-08 Thread James Ausmus
snip Dang, you are right. I thought I was look far enough back but as usual I was wrong. ;-) I read somewhere while I was googling how to fix this but this is the error: [ 26%] Building CXX object akonadi/CMakeFiles/akonadi-kde.dir/itemserializerplugin.o [ 26%] Building CXX object

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: James Ausmus wrote: Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter is harmless... -James OK. Attached is the WHOLE

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

2009-10-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, bzflag will not run snip Any suggestions or clarification are most welcome. snip Can you send your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? -James

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to upgrade KDE 4. As you can see in the subject line, I have a problem. Here is the boo boo message: [ 25%] Building CXX object kresources/CMakeFiles/kresources.dir/configwidget.o [ 26%] Building CXX

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: device eth0 does not exist

2009-10-02 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Cinder cin...@linuxwaves.com wrote: Thanks. Depmod yielded no results. At least as far as I can tell. I tried with ... Code: # depmod -a ; depmod -e -F As I recall Note: the kernel developers warn that you should not configure or compile your kernel as

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread James Ausmus
2009/10/1 Arthur D. spinal...@mail.ru I'm using a 4 years old system, and if I change that line, log out and in again, it changes the env variable and everything works (that means the behavior is probably caused by your configuration). If visudo is still using that configuration, maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread James Ausmus
2009/10/1 Arthur D. spinal...@mail.ru James Ausmus, I solved this proble long ago. I just curios, why it's not solved by portage? So the users should spend their time diggin in manuals to find why is sudo not working in Gentoo like it does in LFS or any other distro?.. Is this the Gentoo way

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-24 Thread James Ausmus
snip On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: I think eSATA and SATA physically have different connectors, but they are the technically same (you can buy simple adapters...). I'm don't think that the connectors are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-24 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote: On 2009-09-24, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: snip I'm don't think that the connectors are different enough to care about - I had (in a previous life/system) a PCI SATA interface card that had both

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

2009-09-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I use a laptop with one of those touch pads you use for a mouse where you drag your finger around on it and have two buttons for left and right mouse. Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

2009-09-17 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.orgwrote: Hello list, I'm trying to install Gentoo on a new eee-pc but falling at the first hurdle. I've followed the instructions on making a boot USB stick in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml but the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: HI group, My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-27 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Grant schrieb: snip You don't need to buy SSD drives - instead you could use CF cards and a cheap adaptor. These are commensurate in capacity cost with USB flash drives (4gig, maybe 16gig?), but CF

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks. Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before, right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is. I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was a

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Ausmus wrote: Hi Dale - can you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files? Thanks! -James Posted in another reply. Should be in the same thread. Sorry, I should have posted those

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It does appear to be loading nvidia but I don't see the splash screen. I also notice that it takes longer to log out for some reason. It

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev. [SOLVED]

2009-07-10 Thread James Ausmus
Good to hear! Out of curiosity, what's the mouse-related differences between the two xorg.conf's? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Ausmus wrote: Did you try the xinput commands from my previous e-mail? I believe that they will work for all

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev. [SOLVED]

2009-07-10 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Ausmus wrote: Good to hear! Out of curiosity, what's the mouse-related differences between the two xorg.conf's? Well, I can't see any difference. Here is the old file: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to other troubles, my X server won't start under any circumstances that I've been able to construct. My actual video is on the motherboard and is an ATI Rage XL chipset (I think that uses the drvier r128?)

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread James Ausmus
2009/6/2 John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I shutdown my system with something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-05-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Saphirus Sage saphirus497 at gmail.com writes: Any ideas how to disable the synaptics pad? I'm not entirely sure that's a proper way to disable the synaptics pad, as you don't seem to have removed xorg's ability to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]eee 900a intel atom is what processor family?

2009-05-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: The more generic choices you have will work, but be slightly less optimised. Could also perhaps try -march=auto if you're using a version of GCC that supports it. $gcc --version gcc (Gentoo-4.3.2-r3 p1.6,

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

2009-05-15 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. iwconfig wlan0 essid Network Name iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-05-11 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: snip Be sure you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-11 Thread James Ausmus
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-06 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set deprecated, possible conflict but I set it anyway # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI is not set doubtful if I need it but set it anyway # CONFIG_SATA_PMP is not set definitely nothing to do

[gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
Hello All- I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors or

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
snip Anyone have any clues Try to comment out all Option lines from the Device section of your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver. This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me. No luck - exact same behavior as before... :(

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
shorten your conf to this and retry: snip Thanks, but same result with the new xorg.conf...

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
snip Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need opengl as well. Output of emerge -pv kwin: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2 USE=captury opengl xcomposite xinerama -debug -kdeprefix 0 kB So, all already enabled... :( Any other thoughts? Thanks! -James

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: snip Be sure you're using the xcomposite USE flag, and perhaps you need opengl as well. Output of emerge -pv kwin: [ebuild   R

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with bootstrap stage1, emerge errors

2009-04-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, HObbES hob...@vaxer.net wrote: My google and forum fu are failing me with this. Let me know if you have run into this on an Intel box. Thanks, -Anne In building a gentoo, I'm doing the following in my home directory (after sudo): mkdir gentoo cd

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-04 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about. Fine! Probably there are not-FPS :-) beauty

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge @preserved-rebuild aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libsoftokn3.so.11, needed by /usr/lib64/nss

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, James Ausmus james.aus

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, James Ausmus james.aus

Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

2009-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: NIP a ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*? lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3* /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.11 /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?

2008-09-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: snip Build it into the kernel. There's usually not much point in building something as a module if you're going to load it every time you boot, unless you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/8/08, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group: I was rather excited at first about NBC streaming olympic events on the internet then I discovered that their media player is based on Silverlight. Do you have any experience installing/running Moonlight on Gentoo? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/qt3to4 ?

2008-02-01 Thread James Ausmus
On Feb 1, 2008 10:43 AM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Anybody familiar with qt3to4? From doctrolltech.com/4.0/porting4.html To port code from Qt 3 to Qt 4: 1. Briefly read the porting notes below to get an idea of what to expect. They must mean up to number 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-29 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 28, 2008 5:57 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:29:47PM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote But the list of packages being recompiled have mostly to do with video, audio and transcoding. I understand it's the --newuse flag that's causing those, not the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 24, 2008 8:42 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip #eix-sync. Then #emerge autounmask and ran #autounmask kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0 which completed w/o error. $eix kde picks up the new version: ... * kde-base/kde Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 3.5.6:3.5 3.5.7:3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 8:03 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 6:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ls -al /var/lib/mysql drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 1752 Jan 22 15:55 mysql drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 48 Jan 22 15:55 test It struck me odd that /var/lib/mysql has another directory inside with the same name... but that was how the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 7:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I guess... not surprisingly the bookmark page now works too? One lingering mysql command that is printed when the bookmarks page configuration steps is gone through: From bookmarks page: [...] After

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error

2008-01-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 22, 2008 6:42 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I started my emerge of KDE 4.0 a while ago and I keep getting this error: snip * You are building Strigi with qt4 but without dbus. * Strigiclient needs dbus to detect a running Strigi daemon. * Please enable both qt4 and dbus.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 22, 2008 7:19 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 08:42:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Kontact works properly and so does the kmail component. kmail on it's own does not work. wtf is up with that anyway?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 22, 2008 2:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have spoken too soon. Re-installing mysql got me to where I can login to the console but the suggested commands still fail: # mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2008-01-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 22, 2008 7:08 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I did a routine 'emerge sync' with no problems. Then I did an ' emerge -uDNvp world' and it gives this message: snip cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 is corrupt: [Errno 13] Permission denied:

Re: [gentoo-user] Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 21, 2008 11:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a little trouble getting www-apps/online-bookmarks set up. snip When I fill in my server I see a listing like one might see in a file browser. The online site claims it will be linked to an install process but that is true

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-21 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 21, 2008 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So I tried adding a passwd leaving the rest as is.. That failed with: Access denied for user 'bookmarkmgr'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (YES was not what I inserted so I guess its just saying a passwd was used) I'm not really

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-09 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and python was blocking it so I unmerged it. I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Nov 7, 2007 9:24 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be pretty handy to generate a series of transposed (or not) graphs for data like cpu usage, mysql usage, memory usage, external monitoring response times, http traffic, etc. My external monitoring service has an API

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread James Ausmus
On 10/30/07, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Webb wrote: The kernel is 2.6.22-r8 : I will try 2.6.23 tomorrow. No need, sorry, I was pointing you in the wrong direction. Kernel 2.6.22 already knows about 29c2 for i915. I checked the wiki paragraph the subdir it refers

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: forcedeth for XP?

2007-10-16 Thread James Ausmus
On 10/16/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, From my config file I'm using this driver for 2.6.22-gentoo-r8: CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y CONFIG_B44=y lspci shows: 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller

Re: [gentoo-user] Video stutters until system restarted

2007-08-22 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/22/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In your case I would remove the kernel sources, reinstall them, and start with a new, clean config - I had a severe case of 'why are half of my options missing' a few weeks ago ... There's no need to remove the kernel *sources* -

Re: [gentoo-user] Video stutters until system restarted

2007-08-22 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/22/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 23. August 2007, James Ausmus wrote: On 8/22/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip In your case I would remove the kernel sources, reinstall them, and start with a new, clean config - I had

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