Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Fred Elno
Dale: Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the thing. *g* Today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' changed my xorg to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:09:04 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've never posted any article on wiki, I think it requires knowledge of xml, doesn't it? Absolutely not! That's one of the beauties of wiki-syntax: you don't have to know anything - you just type it all as you see fit and

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:27:36 -0500, Dale wrote: I'm not near as upset as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No nothing. This happened to

[gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Where can I find on-line information about masked packages, basically the current /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? It seems no such info is either here [1], here [2] or here [3]. I'd like to know why the package is masked prior to syncing Portage. Thanks, Liviu [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Jacques Montier
Dale a gentiment tapote: Hi folks, I'm not near as upset as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server

[gentoo-user] eth0 keeps starting

2009-04-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Ok, I'm out of ideas on this one. On my laptop, I always had an issue with eth0; during boot, I got a warning no configuration found for eth0, assuming dhcp despite the fact that in /etc/conf.d/net I had config_eth0=( dhcp ). (btw, the same config has always worked fine in any other computer,

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 keeps starting

2009-04-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 April 2009, 12:12, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: # rc-update -a show Sorry, I should have copied/pasted - that should have been just rc-update show. Here is another extended output: # rc-update -v show acpid | default atieventsd | bootmisc | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:53:24 +0200 schrieb Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com: Dear all, Where can I find on-line information about masked packages, basically the current /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? It seems no such info is either here [1], here [2] or here [3]. I'd like to know

[gentoo-user] VNC question

2009-04-10 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I try to use vncviewer to access a OSX box with 10.5.6 and 'screen sharing' enabled. I have no problems with another mac that has another vnc server running but I thought, let's try the one, that comes with the OS. If I connect using vncviewer I get: VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.3 for X -

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 keeps starting

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:12:04 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On my laptop, I always had an issue with eth0; during boot, I got a warning no configuration found for eth0, assuming dhcp despite the fact that in /etc/conf.d/net I had config_eth0=( dhcp ). I don't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:49 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Any clues are welcome. I know that it's rather workaround than a solution, but prehaps you might try one of the other vnc implementations, like tightvnc (net-misc/tightvnc). Also, color depth certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 keeps starting

2009-04-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 10 April 2009, 13:15, Mike Kazantsev wrote: Now I don't want to start eth0 at boot anymore (only wlan0), so I commented out the config_eth0=( dhcp ) in /etc/conf.d/net, and did a rc-update del net.eth0 default (which correctly deleted net.eth0 from the default runlevel). That

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 Apr 2009, at 16:06, Valmor de Almeida wrote: ... Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add mathextra to the USE for app-text/texlive and emerge --newuse texlive. W These are the packages that I actually emerged to keep the system lean (from world file):

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and laptop cpu frequency scaling

2009-04-10 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed is scaled down. I am talking about trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Dale a gentiment tapote: Hi folks, I'm not near as upset as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No nothing. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:27:36 -0500, Dale wrote: I'm not near as upset as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we disable FORTIFY_SOURCE for packages where it is not default?

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:39:26 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: From the info page of GCC 4.3.3 NOTE: In Gentoo, `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' is set by default, and is activated when `-O' is set to 2 or higher. This enables additional compile-time and run-time checks for

Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: No need to look online, the comments in the file seem to contain the information you want: I am asking for the case where my tree is *not* yet synced with the most current available official tree. How can one find this

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Stroller wrote: The sub-packages are not intended to be installed stand-alone - they are merely for the convenience of the devs and so that minimal work is required of your system to maintain minor updates. I wonder why this is a required package * dev-tex/feynmf Latest version

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:06:28AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: These are the packages that I actually emerged to keep the system lean (from world file): dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra dev-texlive/texlive-latex dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra You are free to break your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:24:39PM +0200, Penguin Lover Hartmut Figge squawked: Hartmut Figge: * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2008 failed. The today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -pv -uDN world' showed that this package would be emerged. I was curious what would happen. Well,

[gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

2009-04-10 Thread Momesso Andrea
After last sync I get this blocker: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.28', 'nomerge') pulled in by =sys-fs/device-mapper-1.00.07-r1 required by

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Momesso Andrea wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

2009-04-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 10. April 2009 17:08:24 schrieb Momesso Andrea: After last sync I get this blocker: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.28', 'nomerge') pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:50:31AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: I wonder why this is a required package * dev-tex/feynmf * dev-tex/latex-beamer a well designed modular approach should not require these for basic functionality. Well, I agree with you there. File a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-10 Thread Joseph
On 04/10/09 13:25, Mike Kazantsev wrote: [snip] I try to fill in what I stumble upon, but I'm afraid I have no experience with dansguardian, nor do I know any gentoo-specific parts of the setup, but if I'll install and set it up someday, I'll probably write a few lines. Installation of these

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and laptop cpu frequency scaling

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Vladimir Rusinov vladi...@greenmice.info wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Hi, I try to use vncviewer to access a OSX box with 10.5.6 and 'screen sharing' enabled. I have no problems with another mac that has another vnc server running but I thought, let's try the one, that comes with the

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Momesso Andrea wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: [...] Yea, one of those lines disables hal tho which I think is the whole point of this upgrade. HAL is a very minor thing in this update. But with an old kernel, well, I can only see problems in the long run. Especially since you're using outdated DRM kernel drivers. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Momesso Andrea wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-10 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o 7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: snip But the question is, why do I (and you) see jaggedness when looking at that jpeg? I can ignore it, and likely it'll be fine (no jaggedness when looking at that particular pattern) the next

Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:47 +0200 schrieb Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: No need to look online, the comments in the file seem to contain the information you want: I am asking for the case where my tree is *not*

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

2009-04-10 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Momesso Andrea (momesso.and...@gmail.com) [10.04.09 16:13]: How should I handle that? First look in the bugzilla, I found the bug immediately... Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. | _ ASCII ribbon campaign Karl Marx | ( ) against

[gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Willie Wong: Judging by your previous post (you have nothing of texlive in your world) and your current post, you may have just completely screwed up your tex installation. Because i followed the recommendation of 'texmf-update' mentioned in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262177?

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Fred Elno: merge key=input.xkb.layout type=stringfr/merge merge key=input.xkb.variant type=string / Since yesterday i have merge key=input.xkb.layout type=stringde/merge merge key=input.xkb.variant type=stringnodeadkeys/merge merge key=input.xkb.options

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: Sounds like you are having fun with your upgrade too. :-D On my kernel, I'm using 2.6.23. It was the last one I could get to boot so i stuck with it. This one should have the mentioned option of enabling evdev, e.g. with make menuconfig. You can do so, recompile the kernel and keep it

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: Could't find one, [...] A missing 'n'. Surely my keyboard is the culprit. ;) Hartmut

[gentoo-user] Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver gets reinstalled, and I have to manually emerge -C it: # emerge -auvtND world These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver gets reinstalled, and I have to

[gentoo-user] Python module problems

2009-04-10 Thread Saphirus Sage
I upgraded to Python 2.6 recently, and discovered that all my installed modules (pygtk, pycairo, feedparser, etc) were gone. So, I've had to launch all my programs relating to python (rhythmbox, gpodder, wicd) and manually see how to solve each by reinstalling the missing module. Now, with that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:49:27PM +0200, Penguin Lover Hartmut Figge squawked: Why should i have searched for this migration guide, when texlive was pulled in automatically yesterday and i had never noticed something of tetex in my system? No, you shouldn't have. But I am confused about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Python module problems

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:01:14 -0400 Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: I upgraded to Python 2.6 recently, and discovered that all my installed modules (pygtk, pycairo, feedparser, etc) were gone. So, I've had to launch all my programs relating to python (rhythmbox, gpodder, wicd) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Python module problems

2009-04-10 Thread Saphirus Sage
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:01:14 -0400 Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: I upgraded to Python 2.6 recently, and discovered that all my installed modules (pygtk, pycairo, feedparser, etc) were gone. So, I've had to launch all my programs relating to python

[gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Hartmut Figge
Willie Wong: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:49:27PM +0200, Penguin Lover Hartmut Figge squawked: Why should i have searched for this migration guide, when texlive was pulled in automatically yesterday and i had never noticed something of tetex in my system? But there exists emerge.log. Looking

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my USE variable in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Nick Fortino
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 18:36 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting to install xscreensaver even though

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device

2009-04-10 Thread Grant
After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer appears when I insert a memory card. Does anyone know why that is? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device

2009-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 10 April 2009, Grant wrote: After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer appears when I insert a memory card. Does anyone know why that is? - Grant you also did an udev update and nuked some config files?

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we disable FORTIFY_SOURCE for packages where it is not default?

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:36 +0200 Peter Alfredsen loki_...@gentoo.org wrote: CXXFLAGS=-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE That's where most ebuilds will pick it up. +CFLAGS of course. D'oh. /loki_val

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 10 April 2009, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we disable FORTIFY_SOURCE for packages where it is not default?

2009-04-10 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:36 +0200 Peter Alfredsen loki_...@gentoo.org wrote: I have seen some FORTIFY_SOURCE bugs in the bugzilla and in some cases, people claim the the bug lies in the FORTIFY_SOURCE feature itself (that is, people claim that FORTIFY_SOURCE misidentifies a buffer

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Martin
Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. On 4/8/09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Often (now, perhaps always) when

[gentoo-user] Frequently seeing error processing environment

2009-04-10 Thread Joel Thibault (Gentoo)
Hello. I am new to the list so I apologize if this has been discussed before. I see lots of messages like this one, and it seems to come more often when I am emerging a large number of packages (like emerge -e system): * * ERROR: sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1 failed. * Call stack: *

[gentoo-user] Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread walt
I had the same problems with the xorg upgrade, so I got some good advice on the xorg mailing list. The big picture first: The plan is to use evdev *instead* of the drivers in xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, and to make any Input Device sections in xorg.conf completely go away (at

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread walt
walt wrote: ... If you have an unusual mouse, as I do, you will need to create a new fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to get it working properly. Oops, forgot to mention /usr/bin/lshal, which will tell you what hald thinks it knows about your hardware. As one more example, here is what lshal

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 10 April 2009, Dale wrote: Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most Gentoo users here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: Sounds like you are having fun with your upgrade too. :-D On my kernel, I'm using 2.6.23. It was the last one I could get to boot so i stuck with it. This one should have the mentioned option of enabling evdev, e.g. with make menuconfig.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: [...] Yea, one of those lines disables hal tho which I think is the whole point of this upgrade. HAL is a very minor thing in this update. But with an old kernel, well, I can only see problems in the long run. Especially since you're using outdated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is

[gentoo-user] Re: Frequently seeing error processing environment

2009-04-10 Thread walt
Joel Thibault (Gentoo) wrote: ... It is difficult to reproduce, as I can typically try that package again or emerge --resume (without --skipfirst) and everything goes fine, until the problem hits a different package... That kind of random error is almost always caused by flakey hardware,

[gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized

2009-04-10 Thread felix
I am probably missing something really basic here. I get quite a few emerge failures like this: checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no configure: error: you need to install kdelibs first. If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by this

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:52 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I am probably missing something really basic here.  I get quite a few emerge failures like this:    checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no    configure: error:    you need to install kdelibs first.    If you did install

[gentoo-user] [OT] Xandros, EEE which partition to chroot

2009-04-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Before I can install gentoo on my 4G SSHD EEE 900A, I need to know what partition to use to chroot to. There are four partitions on the SSHD, sda1,2,3,4. sda1 is formatted ext2 and is the largest and contains the file system. sda2 is slightly smaller, formatted ext3 and also has a

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-10 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Howdy, I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a functional VLC wouldn't mind posting their USE flags.