[gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6

2009-07-11 Thread felix
This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or adding an entry to package.mask? !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, >> folks. > > Works for me. ;-) > > But its true that Xorg is making some rapid progress. There's some > growi

[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri -- FIXED

2009-07-11 Thread felix
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is > the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous > working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2. I tried many things, ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thanks to everyone. I feel like this was so easy, how could I have been confused? But I was. Somehow, I was lost for weeks between the ways that Ubuntu and Gentoo handle grub---and I was trying to install unstable ubuntu with grub 2, so that may explain some of it, but not all, surely. I used t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> When you do # tail -f /var/log/messages do you see some sort of report >> when you push SysRq. > > Yes. > > Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod SysRq : Emergency Sync > Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod Emergency Sync complete > That's strange; I see nothing. Is there a hotkey number associated with it as there is for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: > My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly > think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), > so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: > > grub> root (hd > grub> root (hd

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 07/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === > That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific version he needs > is no longer in portage, so portage wants to downgrade. Maybe masking > lower versions also would do the trick? > But putting the ebuild into the overlay is the cleanest solution.

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: > === On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > > > How to say portage to "keep this as is"? > I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask > > e.g.: > >media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 > > masks anything greater than that version. That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific v

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 01:13 PM, Stroller wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to "C" I'm reading this as to *only* se

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > How to say portage to "keep this as is"? === I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask e.g.: >media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 masks anything greater than that version. (for me, 3D/dri does not work with my Intel chipset (G35) for mesa greater than tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Jul 2009, at 19:35, walt wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to "C" LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC

[gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 08:08 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan E. Davis writes: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. Those

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-11 Thread Dale
pk wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks. >> >> Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before, >> right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is. >> >> I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was >> a nightmare, AGAIN. I wan

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 20:32:19 William Hubbs wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > > Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package > > > > > > Thanks, it works - just created Manif

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to "C" LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC [number format] LC_TIME [time format] LC_CO

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alan, On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package > > > > Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also. > > It's p

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package > > Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also. It's pity that portage doesn't support the .deb concept of pinning. I know you can always achieve the same effect with masks, but it woul

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
> Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also.

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 17:57:32 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Currently I have xorg-server-1.6.1.901-r4 - as far as all newer ones don't > work for me (I mean GL-related things with my intel graphics), while first > one makes my son happy with few GL games. So I have masked all xorg-server > v

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Uh. I wrote: > Is there a reason why yo keep having grub on #2? If not, I'd just run > grub, enter > root (hd0,0) This should be (hd1,0), using the same /boot partition as before. > setup (hd0) But the master boot record is on the first drive now. Wonko

[gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Currently I have xorg-server-1.6.1.901-r4 - as far as all newer ones don't work for me (I mean GL-related things with my intel graphics), while first one makes my son happy with few GL games. So I have masked all xorg-server versions which are later rather one currently installed. Today af

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan E. Davis writes: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: > >> In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as > >> /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. > > > > Those are two different things. th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > > > from Cacti forums): > > > | grep -v NaN | grep '' | tr e ' ' \ > > > | awk {'print "Q"$2"qcq"$3"qcq"$9"Q"'} \ > > > | tr Q '"' | tr c ',' | tr q '"'" > > > > > > Haven't tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: > >> In grub, it is located first  as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as >> /dev/sda5.  That is where I want it to be. > > Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's root directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: > In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as > /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's root directory, the place where is will find its configuration and stage file

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting Cardreader running on Asus F3SC

2009-07-11 Thread Marco
Hi again, I got my card reader running: ~# lspci [...] 09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapte

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-11 Thread pk
Dale wrote: > Hi folks. > > Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before, > right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is. > > I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was > a nightmare, AGAIN. I want my old way back to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting a Kernel-2.4 with glibc-2.9?

2009-07-11 Thread daid kahl
> > On Wednesday 08 July 2009 17:13:16 daid kahl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work. > > > > Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other > > updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 > kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:27:09 Alan E. Davis wrote: > I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the > suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. I have an ancient laptop here that used to lock up in the middle of large compilations, and eventually I f