[gentoo-user] starting kde

2011-02-15 Thread William Kenworthy
My laptop normally runs gnome but T want to demo some other desktops tomorrow and kde is giving me problems - kde-meta 4.4.5 is installed. I think last time I did this it was kde-3.5 but that almost two years ago now and the same method isnt working for 4.4.5. I have a different user setup for ea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Adam Carter
What does the httpd error log say :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Adam Carter
> > I recently put some files up at > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . > One of them is README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents > using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx. > If I make a copy called READFILE.pdf , it is shown by the brow

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/16/2011 06:54 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I recently put some files up at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx. If I make a copy called READ

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I recently put some files up at  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . > One of them is  README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents > using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx. > If I make a

[gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
I recently put some files up at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx. If I make a copy called READFILE.pdf , it is shown by the browsers. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht >>  wrote: >>> >>> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files >>> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/15/2011 01:45 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I was curious. I have this new rig and was wondering if prelinking would > >> help any. It's a 4 core AMD 3.2Ghz CPU with 4Gbs, soon to be 8Gbs, of .. > >> Thoughts? Opinions? Pers

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Dale wrote: Well, turned out my ram is coming from NJ instead of Memphis. May take a extra day or so. It did ship this morning tho. I plan to max out at 16Gbs and put portage on tmpfs. That should be big enough even to compile OOo the

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Dale wrote: > Well, turned out my ram is coming from NJ instead of Memphis.  May take a > extra day or so.  It did ship this morning tho.  I plan to max out at 16Gbs > and put portage on tmpfs.  That should be big enough even to compile OOo > then. I live "one-day

[gentoo-user] apache2 just died... why?

2011-02-15 Thread Jarry
Hi, Today I found my web-server does not respond to http-requests. All other services kept running, only apache (2.2.16) just died. For the first time, in nearly year... In /var/log/apache2/error_log I have found these messages: -- *** about 1 hour si

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2011 13:49:40 Dale wrote: I think I'll leave it alone. The new ram may make some things faster tho. It'll be interesting to hear whether it makes any difference. I'm sure it will if you're currently swapping to disk a lot (are you?), but o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/15/2011 01:45 AM, Dale wrote: I was curious. I have this new rig and was wondering if prelinking would help any. It's a 4 core AMD 3.2Ghz CPU with 4Gbs, soon to be 8Gbs, of ram and a SATA 3 hard drive. On a modern system, would prelink make anything that much faste

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
I have a ssd. I always used prelink. After a botched gcc upgrade I was forced to reinstall (yeah, THAT botched). I forgot to install prelink. I did not miss it. I realized that I forgot prelink when Neil started his glibc thread and I had a look with eix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:04:38 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> >> >>> I used it on a older and pretty slow rig once and it did help. I think >>> it was 800Mhz with 512Mbs of ram. It also had some much slower IDE >>> drives too. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 15 February 2011 13:49:40 Dale wrote: > I think I'll leave it alone. The new ram may make some things faster tho. It'll be interesting to hear whether it makes any difference. I'm sure it will if you're currently swapping to disk a lot (are you?), but otherwise only during en emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/15/2011 01:45 AM, Dale wrote: I was curious. I have this new rig and was wondering if prelinking would help any. It's a 4 core AMD 3.2Ghz CPU with 4Gbs, soon to be 8Gbs, of ram and a SATA 3 hard drive. On a modern system, would prelink make anything that much faster? Is it worth installing

[gentoo-user] webapp-config -U WEB_CATEGORY error

2011-02-15 Thread Raph
Hi, I just tried to update websvn from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 (+vhosts) Here is the line I used (with webapp-config ~1.50.18): $ webapp-config -V -U -d websvn websvn 2.3.2 And here was the result: = [...] * Parameter my_dotconfig: ".webapp" * Parameter vhost_server_uid: "root" *

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:04:38 -0600, Dale wrote: I used it on a older and pretty slow rig once and it did help. I think it was 800Mhz with 512Mbs of ram. It also had some much slower IDE drives too. It wasn't a huge difference but you could tell the difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-15 Thread dhk
On 02/15/2011 06:10 AM, laconism wrote: > you can use 'lspci' in shell to know something about your sound card,then > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml has a guide about how to set > your hardware and kernel,the information used to make sure the model of your > sound card is porvi

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-15 Thread laconism
you can use 'lspci' in shell to know something about your sound card,then http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml has a guide about how to set your hardware and kernel,the information used to make sure the model of your sound card is porvided in 'lspci',look it up clearly if you don't k

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-15 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Sunday 13 Feb 2011 05:15:35 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > My Google searches have found a couple of references to "it works out of > the box" under some versions of Ubuntu, but no technical details, which > doesn't really help. why dont you try a ubuntu live cd or so? :P alteast thats not as bad as t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-15 Thread dhk
On 02/14/2011 12:29 PM, walt wrote: > On 02/14/2011 03:43 AM, dhk wrote: > >> What are the "Intel HD Audio" codecs? I don't >> remember doing anything explicitly for them. How do I check them? >> Thanks. > > Under the HD-Intel sound card driver menu there are several codecs for > specific sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:04:38 -0600, Dale wrote: > I used it on a older and pretty slow rig once and it did help. I think > it was 800Mhz with 512Mbs of ram. It also had some much slower IDE > drives too. It wasn't a huge difference but you could tell the > difference. Some of the googling I

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-15 Thread Dale
Petri Rosenström wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Dale wrote: I was curious. I have this new rig and was wondering if prelinking would help any. It's a 4 core AMD 3.2Ghz CPU with 4Gbs, soon to be 8Gbs, of ram and a SATA 3 hard drive. On a modern system, would prelink make anything