Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the > > OP): > > > > x11-libs/qt > > x11-libs/qt-core > > x11-libs/qt-gui > > > > Should I delete them? > > Do you run them you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Xi Shen
well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can someone tell me? thanks. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === >> Isn't that for having Gentoo a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
I missed? Read the OP again. On 10/21/09, William Kenworthy wrote: > Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... > > BillK > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new >> > kernel? I'm gettin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Run diff on both config files and see what you missed ... BillK On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:28 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new > > kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing > > from scratch, but maybe I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new > kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing > from scratch, but maybe I'm wrong? I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Leas

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > > > You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run > > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable > > YMMV. > > F

[gentoo-user] SIT-file format (Mac?) on linux

2009-10-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, does anyone know an unpacker for the "sit" fileformat (I think, this one is Mac-based?!) ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekende! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simp

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable > YMMV. Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate "Production" and "Experim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:11 -0700, walt wrote: > On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run > > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... > > How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons > I still have an xorg.conf. > Font pat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Ok, I went back and found what looks like a glaring error. The old config had the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100 under processor options, the new one was missing a zero. A ha! sez I and "fixed" it. Nope. I get the exact same panic. Setting CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y doesn't help either. On a related

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 01:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > ... > The partitioning scheme and fs hasn't changed. Just the kernel. It > wasn't a problem before... Do you use 'make oldconfig' to generate the .config file for your new kernel? I'm getting the impression that you did the menuconfig thing from scr

[gentoo-user] Re: Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 03:55 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > ...All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all... How do you deal with font paths? That's one of the few reasons I still have an xorg.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:54 +0100, Mick wrote: > Hmm ... I seem to have these three in my world file (not sure about the > OP): > > x11-libs/qt > x11-libs/qt-core > x11-libs/qt-gui > > Should I delete them? Do you run them yourself? If not, they don't belong in world. The first could be partic

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:01 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting > > Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, > I'll have to go into my ba

[gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. How do I go about copying them over? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === > Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running > Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) === Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a "make config"). The buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. >> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running >> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.) > No. It works fine with o

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it, I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And save a text copy of the xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-21 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:54:02PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A > better way is to use "pm-hibernate --quirks" (pm-hibernate is from the > pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, > quirks that are kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Dave Jones
Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45: >>> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is >>> patched by gentoo? >> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. > Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As opposed to running > Gentoo as a g

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 18 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 18 Oktober 2009 18:54:54 schrieb econti: > > [ebuild N] app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1 USE="mysql -sqlite" > > [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 > > [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 [4.5.2] > > [ebuild UD]

[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> To me, that looks like /dev/sda1 (which is what the kernel is using as > root=) doesn't contain any of the following: > /sbin/init > /etc/init > /bin/init > /bin/sh > > Noting that the kernel output implied that it was an ext2 filesystem, > that looks like it mounted your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:22 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? > > > > This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, > formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to > check the fs at every boot. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? > This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var. mw

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === > why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is > patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:07:18 Jonathan Callen wrote: > Maxim Wexler wrote: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing i

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, > Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. T

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
as a follow up go here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13560 Virtually identical problem. Check out the screen pic. Just like mine, save for the hardware and fs differences. mw On 10/21/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && mak

[gentoo-user] kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make && make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: <...> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kern

[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: > > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but > > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. > > > > Is it there a reliable and simpl

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. > > Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u -- Gruß | Gree

[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C

2009-10-21 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 09:23 AM, James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers > as a: > > Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c > > > scanimage -L > device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C fl

[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C

2009-10-21 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: Well, monkeying around with all the cables It now registers as a: Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c scanimage -L device `hp:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 63x0C flatbed scanner So I guess I need some advice as to a sof

[gentoo-user] HP ScanJet 7670

2009-10-21 Thread James
Hello, I've never set up a scanner on gentoo (or any other linux before). So here's what I've done. Looking at the sane website I see support for these models: http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-hp5590.5.html ScanJet 7650 is listed as basic support. I have a HP Scanjet 7670, so it should w

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen : > Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo > uses, which comes from go-o.  When you say the x86 version is working > fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Yes, I mean the OpenOffice-bin version. > Even so, I think we need > to ke

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Damien Sticklen
Oo-bin is the vanilla openoffice as opposed to the source version gentoo uses, which comes from go-o. When you say the x86 version is working fine, do you mean the bin or source version. Even so, I think we need to keep this bug open so the 64-bit version gets fixed regardless. Thanks for your p

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Damien Sticklen : > Dale, > > I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. > > Thanks > > Damien No consolation to your problem, but Oo-bin works fine. I cutted and pasted between calc and writer on a x86 and it works without problem. The cells had text and numeric values with

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-21 Thread Mick
2009/10/21 Albert Hopkins : > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:14 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >>   I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel.  When I issue the >> command >> "echo disk > /sys/power/state", it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots >> and comes back up again.  The session restores prop

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Damien Sticklen
Dale, I tried the ctrl-c, ctrl-v method and writer freezes. Thanks Damien Dale wrote: > Damien Sticklen wrote: > >> Dale, >> >> If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The >> ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. >> >> Thanks, >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread ubiquitous1980
Dale, When you say vox, what do you mean? Thanks Damien Dale wrote: Damien Sticklen wrote: Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien It never crashed on m

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.

2009-10-21 Thread Dale
Damien Sticklen wrote: > Dale, > > If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The > ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. > > Thanks, > > Damien > > It never crashed on mine tho. OO Calc and OO Writer kept running until I closed them. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 00:29 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. > > Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and > > flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between > > the two. > > From looking a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an "inofficial" group id

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 10:53:45 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group > id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? > > Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't > anymore, broke one of my systems. >

[gentoo-user] how to find all executables with an "inofficial" group id

2009-10-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know a simple method to find all executables with a group id which is not mentioned in /etc/group? Once an executable with a group id which used to be 'fcron' but isn't anymore, broke one of my systems. Now, I suspect a similar problem on another machine. Otherwise I have to wri

Re: [gentoo-user] Two taskbar panels after upgrade to KDE 4

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 19:03:13 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 4. The upgrade went fine and KDE > 4 KDM shows still my old KDE 3.5, XFCE and GNOME sessions as well as the > new KDE 4 session. > > The only problem is that when I login to the old KDE 3.5