Re: [gentoo-user] Which bluetooth USB key ?

2010-05-20 Thread Indexer
On 21/05/2010, at 4:15 PM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > I have to get a bluetooth USB key. Which one is known to work under gentoo > (amd64) ? With which driver ? Experience and knowhow welcome... > > Most bluetooth usb keys will work with the drivers in the kernel, iirc it is called blue

[gentoo-user] Which bluetooth USB key ?

2010-05-20 Thread alain . didierjean
I have to get a bluetooth USB key. Which one is known to work under gentoo (amd64) ? With which driver ? Experience and knowhow welcome...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Grant writes: > Google says the error can be due to disabling dri in xorg.conf, but I > don't have anything like that. Should CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y include > the dri or dri2 module? The dri and dri2 modules should be installed by x11-base/xorg-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating python

2010-05-20 Thread dan blum
The current Python version is at least 3.1. When I had an issue with an upgrade to version 3.1 from 2.6, my KDE and x crashed. When I reported this to Gentoo, I was told that this was not even a bug. My solution was to reload tho complete system. My guess that part of the problem may be that yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
>Sorry, but I believe the you are the one being pretentious; how long >has been since you tried PulseAudio? It has come a lng way, and I >haven't seen any real flames against PulseAudio in many months (and >it's enabled in all major distributions). And that is because it's >working (I repeat my

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating python

2010-05-20 Thread Kaddeh
what is the output of "eselect python list" On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Rene Lopez Montelongo < r...@redes.acatlan.unam.mx> wrote: > Hi everyone > I'm trying to install on a sparc architecture SUN Ultra45. > > At the time to install a new slot of python I got the this error... > > > livecd

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:59:08 +0200 Fabian Köster wrote: > Hi *, > > I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following > problem: > > When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everything is > perfectly directed to the local PulseAudio running on my mach

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Grant
>> There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not >> completely sure about the versions) >> >> Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm >> >> Hopefully it will be *very* temporary > > It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau > driver. Suppose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Because as soon as you disable ALSA dmix and/or Pulse, suddenly you get > acceptable sound latency. > > With OSS4, which has in-kernel mixing, it doesn't matter if you enable the > mixer or disable it; sound always has acceptable latency.

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] What doesn't work is PulseAudio, actually. Too many problems with it. Pulse is simply broken by design; it's too far from the kernel to be any good. If I may use (most of) your

[gentoo-user] Layman, Git, ... and Http-Proxies

2010-05-20 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, i tried to use layman (current stable version). The problem ist that i sit behind a proxy server which covers the http(s) protocol only. All other ports are closed. In the config file of layman (/etc/layman/...) i entered the proxy server and the listening port. Then layman was able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:25:36 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > What doesn't work is PulseAudio, actually. Too many problems with it. > > Pulse is simply broken by design; it's too far from the kernel to be any > > good. > > If I may use (most of) your words: "Well, it works here. It's been > ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 21:21:27 Graham Murray wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] > > (not completely sure about the versions) > > > > Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm > > > > Hopefully it will be *very* temporary > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] > What doesn't work is PulseAudio, actually.  Too many problems with it. Pulse > is simply broken by design; it's too far from the kernel to be any good. If I may use (most of) your words: "Well, it works here. It's been rock-solid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon writes: > There's an API break between the nouveau driver and the drm in 2.6.3[23] (not > completely sure about the versions) > > Hence the workaround of nouveau-drm > > Hopefully it will be *very* temporary It is. 2.6.34 (which is in ~arch) fixes the API break with the Nouveau dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Grant
>> > I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but >> >> > compilation fails: >> I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place.  This >> driver is now in the kernel itself.  nouveau-drm was used before that >> driver moved into the Linux kernel together w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Grant
>>> I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but >>> compilation fails: >> >> I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place.  This >> driver is now in the kernel itself.  nouveau-drm was used before that driver >> moved into the Linux kernel together wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Grant
>> I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but >> compilation fails: > > I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place.  This > driver is now in the kernel itself.  nouveau-drm was used before that driver > moved into the Linux kernel together with the

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 09:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Don't even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the kernel. I don't care where they go (why the hell sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 19:32:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: > > I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but > > > compilation fails: > I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This > driver is now in the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [snip > (And doesn't really matters, but I haven't heard that it's possible to > switch audio from internal speakers to bluetooth headset with OSS4, so > as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't work.) With just a few clicks, I should add. R

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>  Don't >> even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the >> kernel. > > I don't care where they go (why the hell should I?), for as long as they > work. You

[gentoo-user] problem updating python

2010-05-20 Thread Rene Lopez Montelongo
Hi everyone I'm trying to install on a sparc architecture SUN Ultra45. At the time to install a new slot of python I got the this error... livecd elog # emerge -auv dev-lang/python These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-lang

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Don't even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the kernel. I don't care where they go (why the hell should I?), for as long as they work.

[gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 08:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but compilation fails: I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This driver is now in the kernel itself. nouveau-drm

[gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but compilation fails: I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This driver is now in the kernel itself. nouveau-drm was used before that driver moved into the Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] > Like an earlier poster suggested, PulseAudio looks like a hammer in search of > a nail. I have a bluetooth headset. I set it up with gnome-bluetooth, and with PulseAudio I can dynamically redirect the output in my laptop from the spea

[gentoo-user] nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Grant
I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but compilation fails: /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/nouveau-drm-20100316/work/master/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.c: In function 'nouveau_pci_suspend': /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/nouveau-drm-20100316/work/master/drivers/gpu/drm/

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:07:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > > less important". > > Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I > quote an Oxford English dictionary). You quote one of the three de

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:14 AM, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the > 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of > kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945 > driver, but this driver needs TKIP and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.05.2010 12:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 19.05.2010 00:23, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > >> OK, but don't stop there. pam_mount really just ultimatively runs >> mount.crypt; and it tells you that it does by means of syslog (with >> enabled debug=1 of course). >> >> command: 'mount.cryp

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote: > > But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device > > my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when > > googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing happens when I try > > to print. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 May 2010 09:20:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > less important". Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I quote an Oxford English dictionary). > It's not the same thing as "depreciate" or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 10:40:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/20/2010 11:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:56:39 walt wrote: [snip] > >> Well, since I'm first to answer I get to inject my prejudices first :) > >> > >> I think pulse is a very long answer to a very s

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:36:46 Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated > > > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to > > > those packages is that thei

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2010 00:23, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > OK, but don't stop there. pam_mount really just ultimatively runs > mount.crypt; and it tells you that it does by means of syslog (with > enabled debug=1 of course). > > command: 'mount.crypt' '-ofsk Sorry, I don't see that in my logs (yep, deb

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated > > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to > > those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree. > Each one of those pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Fabian Köster
> I think pulse is a very long answer to a very short question and so I did > away with it months ago. And I haven't regretted it. > > Truly, I think very few people need pulse outside of professionals who work > in film or music. The main reason others have disagreed with my opinion is > becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems with virtualbox

2010-05-20 Thread Chen Huan
I checked the symlink, and it is pointed to the running kernel~~~ when I recompile the kernel with DRM support, all things back to normal.. 2010/5/20 Dale > Chen Huan wrote: > >> Hi everyone, after I installed virtualbox, when I compile the kernel and >> execute "make modules_install", the

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 11:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:56:39 walt wrote: On 05/19/2010 12:59 PM, Fabian Köster wrote: Hi *, I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following problem: When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 10:05:57 Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > > > out /usr/portage/dist

Re: [gentoo-user] corefonts being depcleaned?

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 05:35:40 Stroller wrote: > On 19 May 2010, at 23:14, David W Noon wrote: > > On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:30:03 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > > corefonts being depcleaned?: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Yea, it has times, ariel and a few others that I use a lot so it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:56:39 walt wrote: > On 05/19/2010 12:59 PM, Fabian Köster wrote: > > Hi *, > > > > I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following > > problem: > > > > When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everything is > > perfectly dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting > > output that I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Some problems with virtualbox

2010-05-20 Thread Dale
Chen Huan wrote: Hi everyone, after I installed virtualbox, when I compile the kernel and execute "make modules_install", the message appears: WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo-r2/misc/vboxvideo.ko needs unknown symbol drm_open WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo-r2/misc/vboxvideo.ko needs u

[gentoo-user] Some problems with virtualbox

2010-05-20 Thread Chen Huan
Hi everyone, after I installed virtualbox, when I compile the kernel and execute "make modules_install", the message appears: WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo-r2/misc/vboxvideo.ko needs unknown symbol drm_open WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo-r2/misc/vboxvideo.ko needs unknown symbol drm_fas