[gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-05 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed increase but

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Then find out why its not working - works perfectly on all the desktop systems I have. This is probably a sign that you have some deeper problems - tried revdep-rebuild recently? Its also sometimes necessary to rebuild gnome-panel at the same time as gnome-applets - its usually the batter-stat ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* AJ Spagnoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried using the mixer provided by the gnome-applets package. > It is a simple speaker that you can click that allows you to adjust > the master volume with a simple slider. Took a hell long time for building ... the dependencies are insane ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On Feb 5, 2008 11:40 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > I'm looking for an small gnome-panel mixer applet (alsamixergui > is IMHO too inconvenient for just quick volume chaning ;-o) > > Maybe somebody has an suggestion ? > > > thx Have you tried using the mixer provi

[gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently developing an synthetic filesystem for audio mixer control. It does all the OS/driver specific stuff within the fileserver, so applications can acces the mixer settings in an completely platform agnostic and network transparent way: http://j.metux.de/index.php?option=com

[gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm looking for an small gnome-panel mixer applet (alsamixergui is IMHO too inconvenient for just quick volume chaning ;-o) Maybe somebody has an suggestion ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - h

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out and has

Re: [gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Marc Redmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've collected a few ebuilds for freenet (encrypted p2p web) > >and now creating an own overlay for this. > > I don't know if it is the most recent version of freenet but you can > find freenet-0.7_alpha_pre1104 in the sunrise overlay. Meanwhile I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to don't autoload a module

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Elyahou ITTAH wrote: > What i can do so that the kernel module iwl3945 don't be autoload at > the boot ? > > He is not on module.autoload.d/kernel ... > > I have many modules (Alsa,nvidia,uvcvideo) which are loaded > automaticaly but i don't know why... > > I am interested to remove this autoload o

[gentoo-user] How to don't autoload a module

2008-02-05 Thread Elyahou ITTAH
What i can do so that the kernel module iwl3945 don't be autoload at the boot ? He is not on module.autoload.d/kernel ... I have many modules (Alsa,nvidia,uvcvideo) which are loaded automaticaly but i don't know why... I am interested to remove this autoload only for iwl3945 thx

Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500

2008-02-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks for the hint. I had deleted my user gnome directories but not the oo ones so I did not consider that to be the problem. Clicking on the custom icons (i.e., using them) was enough to fix the it. Thanks, BillK On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:32 +, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, W

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > > Hi All, > >Each time i run "emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated > > each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like > > gcc,glibc, because updating these

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Dale wrote on 05/02/08 22:44: >>> hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 >>> Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip >>> Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the >>> parport flag. >> Dale beat me to pointing out that you may have m

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Dave Jones wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: > > >> > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 >> >> > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive >> > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i >> > got it

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Greg Bowser wrote: > You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) Thanks Greg, I thought that it should be clever enough to enable gtk by default, just like gaim used to (I think). Remerging now . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Andrey Falko
On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, > backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . > > Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses > interface, but

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, here's a terminal output : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ which pidgin /usr/bin/pidgin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix -I pidgin [I] net-im/pidgin Available versions: 2.2.1 (~)2.2.2 (~)2.3.1 {bonjour dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses networkmanager nls perl predi

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:54:07 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged > pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch > pidgin . . . > > Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an > ncurses i

Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Greg Bowser
You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;) --Greg On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged > pidgin, > backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . > > Hmm, it seems that I can

[gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses interface, but not pidgin. There is no pidgin binary! Have I missed out som

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work WORKAROUND (i.e. mysteriously solved)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Jones
Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 05/02/08 04:13: > > hp-setup stubbornly refuses to acknowledge /dev/lp0 > > > I got it to work, but don't really know what was wrong. The drive > > that held my root directory and all configs had failed. Friday, i > > got it back from the DiskSavers, alon

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:58:26 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have > searched high and low for an answer, and I have spend hours > experimenting. Bridged networking broke for me when 2.6.21 came out > and has never worked sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Display card advice needed

2008-02-05 Thread Daniel
On February 4, 2008 10:40:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been given a superb Iiyama 24' Vision Master Pro display (considered > too bulky for the office it was in). > I have to buy a new graphics card able to plug it in. It must: > - be able to display 2048x1536 at 87Hz > - be able of 3d a

Re: [gentoo-user] OO and slot 5500

2008-02-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, W.Kenworthy wrote: > I use openoffice on two systems and one has developed a dialog box that > says /home/$[user]/slot:5500 is unavailable. Cancelling causes the > requested document to open normally. This happened back a few weeks ago > after some updates (but by the

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. Google knows where they are. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Hi All, >Each time i run "emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated > each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like > gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. > Is there any way i can avoid he same

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: > > Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why > not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. > > Cheers. > > It is attached. It's been around a while so I assume it still works. I put mine in the /root direct

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > > or postulates. :') > > No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead > horse. We alre

[gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread dell core2duo
Hi All, Each time i run "emerge -auDNv gnome' some packages got updated each time. I want to avoid continue update of big packages like gcc,glibc, because updating these packages took too much time. Is there any way i can avoid he same ? TIA, flukebox

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious little. You w

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > >>> tad bit faster? > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Graham Murray
"Benedikt Morbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > no, it would not. > gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" > is not a valid CHOST. > CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a > look at CFLAGS. Though looking at /usr/share/gnuconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: >> >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a >>> tad bit faster? >>> >> See Benedikt's answer for why you should n

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > > tad bit faster? > > See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. > > If you did get it all

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: > Hi, > > no, it would not. > gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" > is not a valid CHOST. > CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a > look at CFLAGS. > Where do I find a l

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Benedikt Morbach
Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. And by the way: Changing CHOST is not worth the trouble. Even if it would be possible in your case

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:27:28 -0200, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, > | doubling the number of reboots needed :( > > Not really, you can always change the default option by using the > cursor keys in the grub boot menu.

[gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" ? Would the compiler th

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, | doubling the number of reboots needed :( Not really, you can always change the default option by using the cursor keys in the grub boot menu. - -- Art

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:20:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and > forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots > linux and linux as the default after booting windows, That would make installing new drivers in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:37:23 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: > emerge -C ' signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 February 2008 21:09:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:12:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Oh wait, what year did you say it was again? > > > > MMIIX > > You bugger you. Now I have to dig back 25 years in memory to h

[gentoo-user] Re: openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Schmarck
Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by > openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering > what they are and which one I should be using. > > media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update! > media

Re: [gentoo-user] openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block > by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was > wondering what they are and which one I should be using. > > media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update!