Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 6. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel? first thing ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Bo Ørsted Andresen escribió: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote: So, emerge portage results in one package being installed, portage, 61kb. emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus portage, 18Mb. Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring later I could do an

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Remy Blank
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken

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

2007-08-06 Thread Alessandro del Gallo
Hi, Last 2 lines of your log: Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented inotify comes from kernel, in my config: elwood linux # zcat /proc/config.gz |grep -i notify CONFIG_INOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y in menuconfig: ┌─── File systems [...]

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and preferred_aps (not associating)

2007-08-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm not sure what happened and my effort to find out what happened is still largely surmised by don't know yet Anyway, using ipw2100 and wpa_supplicant I followed the gentoo guide and put in the network={ key_mgmt=NONE priority=-999 } such that it will pick up any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Remy Blank escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP

Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Neil Bothwick escribió: On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Remy Blank
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Remy Blank escribió: Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:40:38 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it can tell you that APP is

[gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Xav'
sean a écrit : There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. So how do you know there is an excessive

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Duane Griffin
On 06/08/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top. You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Xav'
Abraham Marín Pérez a écrit : sean escribió: There seems to be a lot of excessive processor usage and I am trying to track down why. Is anyone able to recommend the best way to track down what is causing the excess processor usage? I have not noticed anything using top.

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage, this usually occurs on CPU1. Things get a

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)

2007-08-06 Thread Dominik Zajac
Hi, if there is an gcc version problem icecream is your friend there you dont have so big problems with different gcc versions and it is easier to configure 2007/8/4, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 03 August 2007 01:34:37 am Ric de France wrote: There may be a gotcha

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and increased processor usage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 6. August 2007, sean wrote: Xav' wrote: So how do you know there is an excessive processor usage ? Could you describe more precisely what you want to mean ? Have gkrellm2 monitoring CPU usage and often for varied lengths of time will see a long and

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread sean
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:49:01 -0400, sean wrote: Hans, Xav, Thank You both, ran the root kit check no problems. Which may not prove much. Rootkit detectors (I prefer rkhunter BTW) are most effective when installed before a computer is open to infection. If you install it on a machine that has

[gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread alain . didierjean
I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it if necessary, but I'd like some users feedback. Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? - Why ? - Any known problems related to this migration ? As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it

[gentoo-user] Re: Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread James
Hans-Werner Hilse hilse at web.de writes: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it correctly, since there is _NO_ way to assure that there isn't a rootkit: chkrootkit can

[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have.

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on your system... To put it

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Paul
so there is always an assumption On 8/6/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I advice

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Paul
what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? On 8/6/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Paul wrote: what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. Regards, Colleen On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers stopped working

2007-08-06 Thread Marc Blumentritt
You did check the new and updated nvidia guide? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml Regards, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Unknown Tool hd

2007-08-06 Thread Linux
I have a problem with a script refering to several tools, one is hd -snip- TESTECHO=$($ECHO -e '\061\062' \ | hd \ | grep -Eom1 '^[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+[[:space:]]+[[digit:]]+' \ | tr -s '\t ' ' ' -snip- Searching has proved fruitless, I *think* it may be a Debian tool/script. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o problem. Few questions: - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? If you have no problems, then just stick with ISO-8859-15. But switching to UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Colleen Beamer schrieb: However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot,

[gentoo-user] OT: Bibble Pro 4

2007-08-06 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Has anyone used the Linux version of the Bibble photo editing software? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: VIDEO_CARDS= Intel Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller ?

2007-08-06 Thread James
W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: For my Sony: Section Device Identifier i915 Driver i810 VideoRam32768 Option DPMS On Option DDC Off Option IgnoreEDIDtrue Option

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Colleen Beamer schrieb: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Colleen Beamer schrieb: However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flashplayer 9 working for anybody?

2007-08-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/3/2007 7:15 AM Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-08-03, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: Flashplayer 9 doesn't seem to work for me. I've tried it in both Opera and Firefox, but for most videos (e.g. nytimes.com) it just sits there with the spinning loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode

2007-08-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell, KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some autodetection. You seem to be right - I've