Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-19 Thread Roy Wright
Marko Kocić wrote: I noticed that in most cases after I boot to windows, when I reboot back to linux I can't connect. When I reboot back to windows, net is up. When it fails I noticed that it send DHCP requests, but doesn't get a response. I tried dhclient, dhcpd and pump, and the results

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. [snip] I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux (at least virtual block devices). You might want to check out Plan 9 from Bell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just built a new box (previous one's motherboard fried) and decided to just start from scratch with gentoo ~x86. Tried the 2008.0 beta 1 liveCD but it didn't like my gpu (nvidia 8600GTS) so just did a stage3 install via ssh from another box using

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
Grant wrote: An oc'ed cpu needs a lot more powergenerates a lot more heat. Both can damage the CPU AND the mobo (too much power might fry a regulator, or cook a cap). Or it might overload the PSU - and then everything is possible. A damaged mobo or psu can take a lot of stuff with it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
Justin Findlay wrote: On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: When I do emerge -DuvatN world, I get an error to the effect, that there are circular dependencies. Please see below. I'd like to know, if anyone else ran into this problem and how it got solved.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-2.0.0 surprises

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 17 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Because you didn't read the elog messages. it is still not ok to remove /etc/conf.d/net. That is extremly stupid. This one caught me too, and I DID read the elog message plus the upgrade guide. /etc/conf.d/net is

[gentoo-user] Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-18 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send notification messages to my email account. IIRC, I had something that just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need simple smtp sendmail

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mail-mta/ssmtp, which is generally installed by default. Or, if you need to support multiple e-mail accounts: mail-mta/msmtp. Thank you! The key was knowing it was ssmtp that I needed to configure. I then found:

[gentoo-user] Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, This is the first time I've played with a software raid and it looks like I'm missing a part. The raid5 consists of three AHCI 1TB drives (sdb1,sdc1,sdd1) assembled as /dev/md1 and formatted ext3. The raid is just a data drive mounted on /var/media. Here's the array line from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

2008-04-19 Thread Roy Wright
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Question re: UUID

2008-04-21 Thread Roy Wright
Michael Schmarck wrote: Correct. UUIDs are universally unique (as the name already suggests *g*) and thus, there cannot be a clash. Not quite true, drives in a RAID have the same UUID. Here's my raid5 for an xxample: # blkid | grep mdraid /dev/sdb1: UUID=bf59d132-8b98-7d9c-c526-af1cfb835fa3

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with mounting an ISO file as non-root

2008-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Take a look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Roy Wright
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. This happened to me. I added the mail lists to my address book and everything is working

Re: [gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-27 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:56:43 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. I hope you CCed this to the OP

[gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have both

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Roy Wright
Albert Hopkins wrote: I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular fake HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm finding: * Internal

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-11 Thread Roy Wright
I have several Belkin UPSs which over the years have only let me down once (we had a power substation fire which did some really funky things to the AC for a couple of minutes, afterward my motherboard on one computer protected by a Belkin UPS was dead). My main complaint with the Belkins is

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I update world?

2008-06-18 Thread Roy Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two problems related to world on my ~amd64 system. I upgraded gcc and finished the emerge -ev system, but I can't do the same to world because of blockage. Specifically -- !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the

[gentoo-user] Weird lockup problem

2008-06-23 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been having a weird problem for the past month where about twice a week when I first unlock the system in the morning, the mouse moves really slow (about 1 second update rate) and if I press any key except ctl-alt-delete (which reboots the box but does not display the shutdown

[gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 today to keep portage from blocking. My guess is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers will be available and a new revision of xorg-server will arrive that will support it

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). The problem is that any nvidia-driver is the blocker to xorg-server-1.4-r1. royw-gentoo portage # emerge -uDNpv world These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Roy Wright
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading something and the connection just died on me. Howdy, I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found that if I kill dhcpcd then restart it then my connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

2008-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, emerge sys-libs/lrmi then from a console run: vbetest this will display the video modes your graphics card supports. Note I had differing results running from an xterm, so I suggest running from a console with X stopped. You might want to look at using uvesa:

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta but it takes next to no time instead of hours and hasn't build the binary packages without any error messages. What am I missing? --buildpkg only works

[gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I have grub menu of: * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Harry Putnam wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a Windows Installer? *SCNR* Thirty five reboots and several hours Sorry, can't resist

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel install question

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: I found what I think is the instructions I used before: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing which basically say to emerge debianutils The problem I'm seeing is that make install is including the version

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've installed the TightVNC viewer on my Gentoo box and it does not appear to have any of these features. I'm looking for recommendations. Under KDE, there's krdc. Supports VNC and you can bookmark connections. I'll second freenx, assuming you have control of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Naga nagatoro at gmail.com writes: In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series kernel or use a live alsa ebuild. Makes sense, but, it's does not work for *26 or *27 kernels: Linux sliver 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #12 SMP Mon Feb 9 13:04:18 EST 2009

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using portage through NFS

2009-02-09 Thread Roy Wright
Chris Lieb wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:58 -0600, Chris Lieb wrote: I don't want to do UnionFS since that requires me to patch the kernel, which is more work than I have the time for. cd /usr/src/linux patch -p1 /path/to/patchfile You must be *really* short of time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Monday 09 February 2009, James wrote: Roy Wright roy at wright.org writes: On my new install using 2.6.28-gentoo-r1, alsa kernel, sound as modules (recommended), [snip...] * enable alsa in the kernel * enable as modules device drivers/sound card support/... [snip...] I

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue

2009-02-17 Thread Roy Wright
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual make modules_install make install. I edited grub.conf only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. Also check it's not in your module-rebuild list.

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help

2009-02-21 Thread Roy Wright
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-06 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100%. I'm curious if anyone else is seeing something similar? TIA, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 07 March 2009 09:03:30 Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 07 March 2009 10:12:42 Roy Wright wrote: Yes, no issues with kde 4.2.0. What happened is I'd upgraded to the bad nvidia-drivers-180.35, downgraded to 180.29, then upgraded kde from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1. One weird side-effect of the 4.2.1 upgrade is that I lost my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 07 März 2009, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Recently upgraded to kde 4.2.1 and noticed that lancelot is reported by top as 100% cpu. Looking at system monitor - cpu settings plasmoid, it looks like 2 of the cores (quad core cpu) are optioning off at 100

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

2009-03-07 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 07 März 2009, Roy Wright wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: which qt version are you using? Wow, that's interesting: qt-3.3.8b-r1 Nothing is masking qt4, and both qt3 and qt4 USE flags are set, but apparently nothing is pulling qt4 in... I was under

Re: [gentoo-user] Access Windows XP running in VirtualBox

2009-03-14 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: I need a solution to access Windows XP program running on VirtualBox. I've Windows XP running via VB and I need to run one of Windows XP program from few other machines. I was thinking maybe I'll install run LTSP but I'm not sure it will work. I think I could create VPN between

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site

2009-03-20 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please click a few links in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror crash on Red Hat site

2009-03-20 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 10:54:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to navigate this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Cluster_Lo gical_Volume_Manager/index.html crashes konqueror-4.2.1-r1. Can anyone confirm? Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread Roy Wright
AllenJB wrote: Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. +1 In addition, please keep language clean on this list. +1 Well said.

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

2009-04-04 Thread Roy Wright
gigli wrote: I wonder if there is any easy firewall for gentoo. I tried ubuntu for a while and used their ufw, which was very simple. My needs: Block incoming traffic except for sshd and https (and sometimes bittorrent) and allow my lan to connect to my samba share, mythtv and mysql when

[gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-09 Thread Roy Wright
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. TIA, Roy

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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get Amarok 2... Personally the change

[gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread Roy Wright
dhk wrote: I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-13 Thread Roy Wright
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 If you have openoffice installed, it will need

Re: [gentoo-user] One of my cores sometimes sleeps

2009-05-14 Thread Roy Wright
Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Most KDE4 itself is always responsive, but not the panel. Konqueror, Kontact and such sometimes freeze when I open a new page/mail. In race cases konqueror also freezes while displaying a page, after parts were already rendered. I replaced my media lan's

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread Roy Wright
On May 31, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: May be, it's not a only Gentoo question, but I want to write and start applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work (as example OOMMF:

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. [snip] What I see on reboot: Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text begins scrolling by and never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set

[gentoo-user] [OT] Recommended MySQL frontends

2005-12-13 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm playing with Ruby On Rails but am severely SQL challenged. I'd like to just create some simple tables (integers, strings, dates). I've been trying to find a MySQL frontend that works. The closest is mysql administrator, except the SQL generated doesn't work. Kexi errors when trying

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade lessons

2005-12-14 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Finally completed the gcc 3.4.4 upgrade and thought I'd pass along a few hard learned lessons. I run a mostly stable system updated almost daily. The sync is ran as part of cron.daily. Lesson #1, turn off cron portage scripts prior to multi-day emerge. Got bit by some Sun java package

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recommended MySQL frontends

2005-12-15 Thread Roy Wright
Thank y'all. Tried phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm! Back to rails... Thanks again, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 media manager problem

2005-12-19 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Just upgraded KDE to 3.5 and have a minor problem. When I start KDE with a SM memory card installed in my USB reader, a removable media icon shows on the desktop. If I remove the memory card, the icon goes away. If I reinsert it, then the icon reappears and I get the A new medium has

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 media manager problem [solved]

2005-12-19 Thread Roy Wright
Daniel Heemann wrote: Add the user to the plugdev group. That worked! Thank you, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

2005-12-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Updated portage today and it gave me a warning that there are problems in my world file: Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world So ran the check: royw-gentoo ~ # emaint --check world Checking world for

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

2005-12-25 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available 'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available snip What I'm not sure about is how to check dependents and unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-03 Thread Roy Wright
Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just updated kde to 3.5.0. One thing I noticed with Kate is that when I type in konsole: kate somefile, it spawns another kate process and not reuse the already running kate. This used to happen with

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Roy Wright
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox

2006-02-05 Thread Roy Wright
Simon Kellett wrote: Chan Min Wai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu. Any Idea? It is the difference between what someone considers standard for Windows vs. Unix. (And

[gentoo-user] Transparency mostly works with KDE 3.5.1 + Xorg 6.8.2

2006-02-05 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Played around and got Transparency working with KDE 3.5.1. In the past it had been extremely slow. This time I found: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency which proved to be very useful (THANK YOU to the author(s)). I was missing: Option backingstore true from

Re: [gentoo-user] Transparency mostly works with KDE 3.5.1 + Xorg 6.8.2

2006-02-05 Thread Roy Wright
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 20:33, Peter Ruskin wrote: No, I just got transparency working too (thanks to your post) and I'm seeing exactly the same as you are. Avoid resizing when transparency/shadows are enabled is my advice. Update: Control Centre - Desktop -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Roy Wright
Ernie Schroder wrote: I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in KDE 3.5.x? Try enabling the backingstore as suggested on the wiki. That solved the slowness problem for me. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] TwinView Question

2006-02-15 Thread Roy Wright
krgn wrote: hey, I have tried to configure TwinView for my laptop and whatever comes (projector, crt etc..) and everything seems good except, and that is a bit annoying, that the desktop (xfce-panel..) is on the wrong screen, i.e. not on my Laptop display but on the second one. That is a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 upgrade instruction

2006-02-16 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: I just noticed that the PHP5 has been marked stable. Are the any instruction on how to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question

2006-03-02 Thread Roy Wright
so I'm having to start it with /usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1 -Original Message- From: Roy Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:13 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question /etc/conf.d/net: config_eth1=( dhcp ) HTH, Roy CR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-17 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: How about using the internet as a source for the photos? It's easy, if you run kde (3.5.9) -- control center -- screen saver -- Banners Pictures -- Slide show I'm close to getting a first release out for an app that can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: OT Calenders

2008-07-23 Thread Roy Wright
James wrote: Sebastian Wiesner basti.wiesner at gmx.net writes: KOrganizer supports standard ICal-Files. Googleing for usa holidays ical gets me to KOrganizer has built in support for holidays: Settings, Configure KOrganizer, Time Date, Use holiday region. Have fun, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] Numpad keys behaving strange after system-wide update

2008-08-03 Thread Roy Wright
Mark David Dumlao wrote: Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update. The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge -uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere... Pressing numpad keys in X doesnt seem to produce results or nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want. AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] weekend amusement

2008-08-23 Thread Roy Wright
Philip Webb wrote: For those who missed it : http://www.besttechie.net/forums/Linux-Humor-t14545.html Gentoo is definitely misrepresented. I would have used that image to describe the Kubuntu 0710 to 0804 updater which left a broken system that necessitated doing a new install to get 0804.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Roy Wright
Philip Webb wrote: 080828 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: 080828 BRM wrote: Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. My estimate (also based on reading screenshots) is that it is 60 % eye candy, 30 % hype 10 % useful

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-01 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me. I'd just thought I'd let everyone know there has been good progress here. Using the latest beta drivers (177.70) and with the settings from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-09-02 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:38:01 Paul Hartman wrote: I'm using 177.70 on a 8600m GT here, and still running into stability issues (random crashes, X stops responding for 10 seconds and sometimes for ever). However, performance is a lot better - far from perfect,

[gentoo-user] How to unmerge kde 4.1?

2008-09-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Trying to switch from kde-portage to kde-testing overlays did not progress well. What I'd like to do to recover is unmerge all the kde 4.1 stuff and start over. Does anyone know a simple way (maybe a script) to do this? As far as I'm concerned, I'd really like to unmerge everything

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge kde 4.1?

2008-09-22 Thread Roy Wright
Dale wrote: Since KDE 4 is still masked, I would think you could remove the keyword and unmask files then do a --depclean. I would also do a -p with that just in case. It's just a thought. Dale :-) :-) Ah, that triggered a memory and with a little checking found a problem. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Some KDE apps under KDE4 stability

2008-10-04 Thread Roy Wright
Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't use these at all. GKrellm kicks SysGuard's butt :-) Wow! I hadn't seen GKrellm before. 15 minutes of config and theme selection and I'm sold! Thank you, Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge kde 4.1? [solved]

2008-10-04 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: Trying to switch from kde-portage to kde-testing overlays did not progress well. What I'd like to do to recover is unmerge all the kde 4.1 stuff and start over. Does anyone know a simple way (maybe a script) to do this? As far as I'm concerned, I'd really like to unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Roy Wright
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my ~x86, I had to add: ~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11 to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-14 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same

[gentoo-user] preserved lib question

2008-10-20 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I have some preserved libs that just don't want to go away. I've ran emerge @preserved-rebuild several times to no avail. I think the problem is with portage not recognizing that one of the libraries is symbolically linked to the other. Here they are: !! existing preserved libs:

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-22 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: Excuse me, could you write down your system configuration? Xorg version, Kernel version, Gcc, Nvidia-drivers, Hal version, compiz-fusion version. Basically just a ~x86 system with dual monitors (twinview). royw-gentoo ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask/monolithic # packages

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Roy Wright
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Roy Wright
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Gentoo is difficult to install. Also, if it's left un-updated for longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. I guess that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root? kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 HTH, Roy Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: yeah I did that as well. grub is not the problem as far as I can tell. I get the boot menu just fine. my system stops when it tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas? Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more stable. The only seg faults have been on shutdown. Konqueror

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
The shutdown problem is because /sbin/halt is missing. Emerging baselayout restored /sbin/halt. Have fun, Roy Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 12:49 am, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. When told to turn off

[gentoo-user] Where to find ebuild info?

2005-06-04 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Over the past few months since my first gentoo install, I have yet to discover how do I find out the current state of masked ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they masked, and 2) any known issues with the build. I can look up the package on packages.gentoo.org, but can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Roy Wright
OK, I give. How do you configure media? I tried: * Add New | Web SideBar Module ** Name = Media ** URL = media:/ But this gives a An error occurred while loading media:/; Malformed URL media:/. when clicked. TIA, Roy Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:36:23 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:

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