[gentoo-user] Anybody Know x86 Assembler?

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, Does anybody know x86 assember? The following code is in a kernel source file, and GCC fails to build it, saying "invalid operands to 'mov'". What's wrong with it? - Neil Code: asm volatile ("movl %%fs,%0":"=m" (*(int *) &m.fs)); asm volatile ("movl %%gs,%0":"=m" (*(int *) &m.gs)); -

[gentoo-user] x11-drm Fails to Build (No Configure Script)

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I am unable to install x11-drm from the ebuild due to the following error. This happens to be against a 2.4 kernel: 2.4.32-gentoo-r7. Why does this error occur? What can I do about it? - Neil make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird mysql problem.

2006-10-30 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I was unable to locate one specific, but there are quite a few problems. It has to do with a slight change in the MySQL API. - Neil On 12:54 Sun 29 Oct , Bartlomiej Syryjczyk wrote: > Neil Hodges napisal(a): > > Hello, > > > > This problem is well-known, and pr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-25 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, Isn't qfile deprecated? - Neil On 16:35 Wed 25 Oct , Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2006 October 26 Thursday 03:44:29 AM +0530, Vikas Kumar wrote: > > # equery belongs > > > > equery comes with gentoolkit. > > > > # emerge gentoolkit > > You can alternatively try qfile from portage-

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird mysql problem.

2006-10-24 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, This problem is well-known, and present in the bugzilla. The problem lies in MySQL 5.0.26-r1, and many threads in the forums have been spawned. - Neil On 14:14 Tue 24 Oct , A. R. wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Gentoo ~amd64 and I recently upgraded MySQL from > 5.0.26 to 5.0.26-r1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] want to ditch kopete

2006-10-18 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I've been using Gaim 2.0.0_rc3 (some `r' version I can't recall) for some time, due to Kopete's compilation issues. I also hope Kopete will be fixed. - Neil On 13:35 Wed 18 Oct , Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > ~x86, kde user. kopete-3.5.5-r1 will not compile. Already a bug report

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, The error regarding the "/var/run/acpid.socket" means that you don't have acpid installed, nor running. I don't know if the fault has something to do with that. It may be a good idea to emerge sys-power/acpid and add it to your default runlevel: rc-update add acpid default Also, add Optio

[gentoo-user] Changing Konqueror Timeouts

2006-10-12 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I've been having issues with timeouts in Konqueror, particularly DNS timeouts. How can I change the values for these? - Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, You would run the command: # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,ethX} However, "ethX" would refer to the device name of your network card, which you should be able to find out via a search on Google. - Neil On 21:53 Wed 11 Oct , Lord Sauron wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton

[gentoo-user] app-i18n/scim-qtimm-0.9.4 Fails to Configure to Build

2006-08-29 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, app-i18n/scim-qtimm-0.9.4 fails to configure, whereas the previous version has no trouble. What is the cause of this problem? - Neil == log == *** Creating acinclude.m4 make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/scim-qtimm-0.9.4/work/scim-qtimm-0.9.4' make[1]: Leaving

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice.org Build Failure: libpython: Missing Symbol "Deflate"

2006-08-27 Thread Neil Hodges
On 17:31 Sun 27 Aug , Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/27/06, Neil Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello again, > > > >These are all libpython is linked against: > > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice.org Build Failure: libpython: Missing Symbol "Deflate"

2006-08-27 Thread Neil Hodges
00) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d33000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) - Neil On 15:28 Sun 27 Aug , Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/27/06, Neil Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I've run into a build error with OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 rega

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice.org Build Failure: libpython: Missing Symbol "Deflate"

2006-08-27 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello all, I've run into a build error with OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 regardless of USE. The command checkdll.sh claims that there is no symbol "deglate" in libpython2.4.so.1.0, but there is: $ readelf -s /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 | grep deflate 58: 0 NOTYPE

[gentoo-user] KDE Screensaver Crashes with SCIM Input

2006-08-26 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, I'm having issues with the login dialog of KDE's screensaver and SCIM. The dialog crashes every single time. I've compiled everything with -O3 CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, but have compiled scim, skim, scim-qtimm, and kdesktop with -O2. This only happens when I enable the password-protected sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Space Bar Does't Work with GDM and GNOME

2006-08-18 Thread Neil Hodges
; whole dir(i forget) > > Andrew > > > On 8/17/06, Neil Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hello all, > > > >I've run into a problem with GNOME and GDM. When I start a GNOME > >session from GDM, the space bar stops working in X. There ar

[gentoo-user] Space Bar Does't Work with GDM and GNOME

2006-08-17 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello all, I've run into a problem with GNOME and GDM. When I start a GNOME session from GDM, the space bar stops working in X. There are no problems with TWM, FVWM2, E16, or XFce4. What could be causing this problem? - Neil == Xorg.0.log == X Window System Version 7.1.1 Releas