Re: [gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

2005-10-14 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and > want to update world. > > When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a > package that I had installed was blocking another package. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?

2005-10-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I also recall reading about non-official ebuilds available at somewhere > like bugs.gentoo.org. Is there something preventing you from doing a search in Bugzilla? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrw advice?

2005-10-14 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
on other OS's you have to 'format' the RWs before you can mount them in packet mode.  Is the same true for Linux? On 10/14/05, michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:35:02 -0700michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[snip]I continued hacking away at it and I seem to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Servers and Such

2005-10-14 Thread Robert Morris
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:24 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 10/13/05, Robert Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's the gstreamer-alsa plugin that is probably causing the > crackle. > There are several bug reports in Gnome bugzilla. If you are > using dmix, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:17 -0700 Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the | default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been | installed into world? It seems to me that at some point I have | installed a package

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrw advice?

2005-10-14 Thread michael higgins
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:35:02 -0700 michael higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I continued hacking away at it and I seem to have it working - for root. How do I get my regular user to have access? For the record, I'm not sure how I got it to work. I added hdc=ide-cdrom as a boot paramete

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly/ HOWTO disaster

2005-10-14 Thread Rob
znx wrote: Hi, Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts Cheers On 14/10/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly

[gentoo-user] cdrw advice?

2005-10-14 Thread michael higgins
Hello, all. Using 2.6.12-gentoo-r10. I followed the instructions here, sort of. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Writing_on_CD-RW Is anyone using this feature? Running cdrwtool seems to blank and format the disk, but, I'm stumped as to how to use it. >From fstab, this is the device that wor

[gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

2005-10-14 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and want to update world. When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a package that I had installed was blocking another package. I want to update but omit the blocked package from the update, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

2005-10-14 Thread Rob
Michael Mauch wrote: Rob wrote: The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse -

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Mauch
Rob wrote: > The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using > the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and > then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I > have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-f

[gentoo-user] Evolution: "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 ***"

2005-10-14 Thread fire-eyes
When I try to run evolution-2.4.1, i get "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08144e90 ***" on STDOUT and it doesn't start. It doesn't exit either, i have to ctl-c in the terminal. I got this with 2.2 as well. I have been completely unable to run evolution because of this. Any ideas

[gentoo-user] Wiki Howto: Xorg and Fonts, did I fatally screw up the directions?

2005-10-14 Thread Rob
The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: what to do: "IRQ routing conflict for 0000:03:03.0, have irq 9, want irq 12"

2005-10-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:20, Christian Fischer wrote: > Hi all. > > I've installed a card bus bridge, but i can't get it working. > What to do? > > Regards > Christian try the most recemt kernel, you could find? look into kernel's bugzilla for that problem? look into the lkml-archives? -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I keep control of my USE flags, lets say, "manually". Of course, at install time you get a couple of defaults just to make sure you don't miss anything crucial. After that, every package goes trough an emerge -pv, its USE flags set at packages.use, I compile it. Of course, its tedious, its slow, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:15 -0700, Manuel McLure wrote: > One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the > default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been installed > into world? It seems to me that at some point I have installed a package > (for example postg

[gentoo-user] runscripts and niceness...

2005-10-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
Hey, for the /etc/init.d scripts based upon runscripts, is there a way to have it start a daemon using a different nice value? I hate having to go in manually to bump postfix's niceness each time the system boots... Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Manuel McLure
Holly Bostick wrote: You could edit /etc/make.profile if you liked, I suppose, but Portage will update it at one or more various points anyway, and then where are you? One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling lirc for streamzap with 2.6.14-rc3

2005-10-14 Thread Canek Peláez
The problem is, the new 2.6.13 kernels had removed devfs. Nothing important, but it prevents LIRC (and other packages) to compile. Put app-misc/lirc ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords and get the newest version. It works OK for me (with two remotes, one is a streamzap). Canek On 10/14/05, Da

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Holly Bostick
John Jolet schreef: > > On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to know how the >> current USE variables are set. | I know that "emerge --info" >> displays a list of all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread John Jolet
On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to know how the current USE variables are set. | I know that "emerge --info" displays a list of all of them, but it | doesn't discriminate where

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to know how the current USE variables are set. | I know that "emerge --info" displays a list of all of them, but it | doesn't discriminate where they come from. I couldn't find clear | documentation ab

[gentoo-user] Is There An Ebuild For aee?

2005-10-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I've used 'app-editors/easyedit' which is an ebuild of 'ee' available from http://mahon.cwx.net/. Also on that page is 'aee' which is a superset of 'ee'. I'd like to give it a try and was wonder if there was an ebuild in portage. I have been unable to find one. I also recall reading about n

Re: [gentoo-user] bad jack(?) performance

2005-10-14 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:06:22AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > The first one is easy. Try some different Jack settings. Instead > of 128/2 try 64/4, or 128/3, etc., and see if some other setting > works. You might get the same latency, or you might have to go a > bit slower. The only time I actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

2005-10-14 Thread znx
Hi, Have a look at the wiki, see if it can tame your font issues, did mine: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts Cheers On 14/10/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. > It is not rendering text correctly. I have trie

[gentoo-user] Mozilla-bin port not rendering correctly

2005-10-14 Thread Rob
I have never seen this behavior except with the Gentoo mozilla-bin port. It is not rendering text correctly. I have tried Arial Truetype font and ordinary fonts. What is does is print the letters of text with huge spaces between them. It does not occur on all web pages, but enough to be real

Re: (fwd): [gentoo-user] xmms plugin for ape?

2005-10-14 Thread Matias Grana
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Matias Grana schreef: > > Anyone on this one? This is really short; I tried to find a plugin > > for xmms for ape files, but I didn't find one. Am I missing one? > > > > Sorry to re-post, but it didn't get answered in a couple of day

[gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > You wouldn't be able to use -march like this with two different cpus, > you'd have to set it to something compatible with both, say i686. That's > why I said "provided your USE and CFLAGS are the same" in my original > post. Got it. Thanks guys... James

Re: [gentoo-user] Lock-ups using laptop-mode - PATCH

2005-10-14 Thread Richard Fish
Remy Blank wrote: I have been struggling for a few months with hard lock-ups when using laptop-mode. Just thought this info might be interesting. Indeed it is, and congratulations on finding an apparent fix. I too have been having a problem with my laptop (with master and slave ha

[gentoo-user] [OT]: what to do: "IRQ routing conflict for 0000:03:03.0, have irq 9, want irq 12"

2005-10-14 Thread Christian Fischer
Hi all. I've installed a card bus bridge, but i can't get it working. What to do? Regards Christian -- pgpOrOECcfYKn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (fwd): [gentoo-user] xmms plugin for ape?

2005-10-14 Thread Holly Bostick
Matias Grana schreef: > Anyone on this one? This is really short; I tried to find a plugin > for xmms for ape files, but I didn't find one. Am I missing one? > > Sorry to re-post, but it didn't get answered in a couple of days, > which for this list is an eternity. > > Thanks, Matias http://www.

(fwd): [gentoo-user] xmms plugin for ape?

2005-10-14 Thread Matias Grana
Anyone on this one? This is really short; I tried to find a plugin for xmms for ape files, but I didn't find one. Am I missing one? Sorry to re-post, but it didn't get answered in a couple of days, which for this list is an eternity. Thanks, Matias - Forwarded message from Matias Grana <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling lirc for streamzap with 2.6.14-rc3

2005-10-14 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:10 pm, Shaw Vrana wrote: > Hello again Gentooers, > > I'm attempting to get the streamzap remote working with lirc. According to > the howtos around, I've created LIRC_OPTS in make.conf with a value of > "--with-driver=streamzap". Emerging lirc afterwards, however, g

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD

2005-10-14 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Dave, on Thursday, 2005-10-13 at 13:50:53, you wrote: > The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to > have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general > state of flux. ACK. This will also keep fragmentation down and thus performanc

Re: [gentoo-user] how create perment mknod

2005-10-14 Thread Frank Schafer
Add the device to your udev.rules Regards Frank On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 22:53 +0600, Gentoo Shadow wrote: > dear friends, > > i could connect my huawei fwt usb modem by compiling ti_usb_3410_5052 > module. so now i need to create a perment link on /dev folder so how > can i do it? > > mknod /dev/

[gentoo-user] translucency bork

2005-10-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
Well, just when I [thought I] had finished tuning my KDE desktop, here it fails again. I'm using baghira as style. I enabled translucency (it works) and in Desktop-->Window Behaviour-->Translucency I enabled translucency for inactive windows and disabled it for active windows. I want opacity in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-14 Thread Norberto Bensa
Michael Sullivan wrote: > camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio' > :00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) You need alsa-driver >= 1.0.9 -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-14 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio' > :00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > > Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I > should b

[gentoo-user] Problem compiling lirc for streamzap with 2.6.14-rc3

2005-10-14 Thread Shaw Vrana
Hello again Gentooers, I'm attempting to get the streamzap remote working with lirc. According to the howtos around, I've created LIRC_OPTS in make.conf with a value of "--with-driver=streamzap". Emerging lirc afterwards, however, gives me the compilation errors attached. Also, I get the mess

[gentoo-user] Lock-ups using laptop-mode - PATCH

2005-10-14 Thread Remy Blank
I have been struggling for a few months with hard lock-ups when using laptop-mode. Every 3-4 days, my laptop would freeze during the night, with no message in the syslog, and for no apparent reason. The hard disk activity light would always be on in the morning, which somehow made me thing that it