Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch

2006-02-03 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 03 February 2006 09:51, John Green wrote: > convert input.jpg -contrast-stretch 10% output.jpg my installation is working with this media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.6.0 USE="X jpeg mpeg perl png tiff truetype xml2 zlib -bzip2 -doc -fpx -graphviz -gs -jbig -lcms -nocxx -wmf" m -- Linux 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch

2006-02-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Green wrote: > Hi, > > The ImageMagick option -contrast-stretch is not recognised > in my installation (6.2.5 01/31/06 Q16). The option is documented on the > convert input.jpg -contrast-stretch 10% output.jpg Seems to work. [09:06:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp] $ convert input.jpg -contrast-

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 02 février à 15:55:55 Simon Prosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | heres my /etc/conf.d/net might give you some pointers if you dont want to use | dhcp... > | config_ath0=( "192.168.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255" ) | routes_ath0=( "default gw 192.168.2.1" ) | essid_ath0="

[gentoo-user] Troubles with Iomega REV 35GB ATAPI

2006-02-03 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi list! I'm having constant troubles with Iomega REV 35GB ATAPI (so internal) drives in a couple of Gentoo servers and I was hoping for some hints. About the environment: Kernel: gentoo-sources 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 with CONFIG_UDF_FS=m CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_php USE Flag question

2006-02-03 Thread Robin
I understand what PAM is. I am just wondering about the USE flag in related to mod_php. Thanks for your reply : -) On 2/2/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:08, Robin wrote: > > I was looking at some of the flags associated with mod_php using the > > equ

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Bruce Burden schreef: > > Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 > bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! > > Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of > output or so. Drat! > > OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP

AW: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

2006-02-03 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
Hi, I found out (using the source & inserting log statements :-) that my peculiar format of make.conf was the culprit. For reasons too silly to explain here :-) I built up my USE variable in more than one line: USE="" USE="$USE " (basically to make a use flag comparison somewhat e

[gentoo-user] Can not emerge net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1-r1

2006-02-03 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, Todays sync brought me a new openssh but a required library is missing. My emerge gives this: ### checking whether system supports SO_PEERCRED getsockopt... yes checking if openpty correctly handles controlling tty... no checking whether getpgrp requires zero argument

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup device (sata hdd) best filesystem

2006-02-03 Thread Thales Chacara
Harry, In May of 2004 linux gazette published this article "Benchmarking Filesystems" for Justin Piszcz, waits that it can help! link: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html 2006/2/3, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm about to format 2 200gb sata drives and one 300gb ATA for use asrecipients

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:07:58 +0100, Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: > For reasons too silly to explain here :-) I built up my USE variable in > more than one line: > USE="" > USE="$USE " > (basically to make a use flag comparison somewhat easier). I considered doing this, I'm glad I didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not emerge net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1-r1

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Friday 03 February 2006 11:11, Jules Colding wrote: > Hi, > > Todays sync brought me a new openssh but a required library is missing. > My emerge gives this: > > ### > > checking whether system supports SO_PEERCRED getsockopt... yes > checking if openpty correctly handle

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.4.2-r1 problems

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:04:08 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Just emerged newest python-2.4.2-r1 - on all ~x86 system. > Next emerge broke due to missing internal python module (fcntl). > After that all python dependent apps stopped working. I've just gone from 2.4.2 to 2.4.2-r1 and all seems well so

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-02-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: > I did the revdep-rebuild and found some other > problems, but didn't seem to be a problem with orbit. Not with orbit directly; you did rebuild libbonobo? > A manual install of orbit 2.12.0 Ouch. Such things shouldn't be necessary. Better flee forward: echo "app-office/abiword

[gentoo-user] Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Maarten
Hi I need to distinguish several, mostly identical, USB devices from each other by assigning them unique static names. I know there are primers(*) that describe the process, and I try to follow them, but either the gentoo /sys/ tree is broken in some way, or my system is broken, or the primers /

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd logs

2006-02-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick -contrast-stretch

2006-02-03 Thread John Green
Martins Steinbergs wrote: >On Friday 03 February 2006 09:51, John Green wrote: > > >>convert input.jpg -contrast-stretch 10% output.jpg >> >> > >my installation is working with this > >media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.6.0 USE="X jpeg mpeg perl png tiff truetype xml2 >zlib -bzip2 -doc -fpx -graphv

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd logs

2006-02-03 Thread Remy Blank
Marco Calviani wrote: >i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log > > How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng? You could try the following in my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (assuming your log source is called "src"): destination dhcpd { file("/va

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd logs

2006-02-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Benoit Joseph
Hello All, I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet... I guess when you say nothing finish it means that your command hangs and desn't give you the prompt. I have the same problem. (ati Rf250 M9) Here are a site that point the problem and a way to patch 2.6.15 kernel...

[gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Kjorling
I am having some trouble with X11 DRI on my AMD64 system. It works fine the first time after a reboot (I have xdm in the default runlevel so get a graphical login) but after logging off and back on, all I get is software rendering. I use x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 (compiled against my current kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd logs

2006-02-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Remy, thanks very much for your indication. It works. Best regards, MC 2006/2/3, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marco Calviani wrote: > >i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log > > > > How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng? > > You coul

[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo experiences with wireless router Sitecom WL-114

2006-02-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm currently using a wireless Sitecom router WL-114 with my ADSL Netgear modem, and eveything works smoothly. However i have two problems: 1) as of the printed manual the WL-114 supports the WPA cryptography option. But using the web interface program it does not appear as options. 2) i

[gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has succe

[gentoo-user] changing from X to shell

2006-02-03 Thread Cláudio Henrique
after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n<7. how do I re-enable it again? I have updated xorg-x11 to modular xorg-x11 but I have undone this mistake, since mouse wheel seems to be a too difficult task to accomplish. well, that

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Holly Bostick
Benoit Joseph schreef: > Hello All, > > I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet... Not true; I've been using them together for the last two versions of the ATI drivers: motub -> uname -r 2.6.15-gentoo motub -> fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: AT

[gentoo-user] system freezes....

2006-02-03 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm a Travelmate 8005 laptop user, running an updated gentoo box. I'm routinely experiencing system freezes 1 or 2 times every two days, without an apparent cause; everything stops, starting from mouse to keyboard, so that it is impossible to restart the system. The system logs of the

[gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
Hey everybody,   This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out.  I can't emerge UT2004.  I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD.  It simply tries (and thinks it has succe

Re: [gentoo-user] changing from X to shell

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2006-02-03 11:04 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I > do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n<7. > > how do I re-enable it again? Check to see if you have DontVTSwitch set in your xorg.conf. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:45:51 +0100, Maarten wrote: > I need to distinguish several, mostly identical, USB devices from each > other by assigning them unique static names. I know there are primers(*) > that describe the process, and I try to follow them, but either the > gentoo /sys/ tree is broken

Re: [gentoo-user] changing from X to shell

2006-02-03 Thread Cláudio Henrique
thanks, I'll do this On 2/3/06, Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-03 11:04 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I > > do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n<7. > > > > how do I re-enable it again? > > Chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread fire-eyes
Steve B. wrote: > Hey everybody, > > This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one > out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and > the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the > second CD. It simply tr

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Ian Porter
Hi > Hey everybody, > > Â This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this > one out. Â I can't emerge UT2004. Â I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom > (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time > to umount and mount the second CD. Â It simply tries (and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > gets on the Gnome desktop? > >I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open > Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of > t

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 03 February 2006 14:37, Steve B. wrote: > Hey everybody, > >   This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one > out.  I can't emerge UT2004.  I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and > the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/3/06, ellotheth rimmwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > > gets on the Gnome desktop? > > > >I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open > > Ter

[gentoo-user] Re: changing from X to shell

2006-02-03 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 03 February 2006 14:04, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems to be disabled. I > do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n<7. > > how do I re-enable it again? > > I have updated xorg-x11 to modular xorg-x11 but I have undone this > mistake, since m

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.4.2-r1 problems

2006-02-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (03/02/06 10:48), Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:04:08 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > Just emerged newest python-2.4.2-r1 - on all ~x86 system. > > Next emerge broke due to missing internal python module (fcntl). > > After that all python dependent apps stopped working. > > I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing from X to shell

2006-02-03 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I see... Well, I'll try to remember this in the future. X.org 7 gave me too much trouble. I'll wait for the stable version. Thanks! On 2/3/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 14:04, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > > after some updates, changing from KDE to shell seems

[gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Cláudio Henrique
when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how can I do this? is there a kshred app? thanks in advance, claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Mikhail Yarmish
Cláudio Henrique wrote: when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how can I do this? is there a kshred app? thanks in advance, claudi

[gentoo-user] Re: move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 03 February 2006 16:27, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete > option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I > want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how > can I do this? is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop

2006-02-03 Thread Grant
> > Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: > > > > xfce-base/libxfce4mcs > > xfce-base/libxfcegui4 > > xfce-base/libxfce4util > > > > They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN > > world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two > > most recen

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:39 -0500 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is > supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP > or dual core system. I have an SMP system. It's just more lightweight by

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:27:31 -0200, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete > option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I > want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how > can I do this? is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Cláudio Henrique
domo arigato! :o) On 2/3/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 16:27, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > > when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete > > option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I > > want to shred a file

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)

2006-02-03 Thread Grant
> > 2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and > > it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed > > and running software versions do not match (probably better) > > 3. Whenever an ebuild installs a script in /etc/init.d, it checks to see > whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Maarten
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:45:51 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > >>I need to distinguish several, mostly identical, USB devices from each >>other by assigning them unique static names. I know there are primers(*) >>that describe the process, and I try to follow them, but either the >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Michael A. Smith
Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and t

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Prosser
On Friday 03 February 2006 08:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > OK, dhcpcd does the connection all right, and thanks for that; however I > still need to enter the user and password informations. I guess it might > be a provider matter? have a read of /etc/conf.d/wireless.example <== all you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:40 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: > On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > > gets on the Gnome desktop? > > > >I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can recommend NPTL for situations where threading really matters. And > it only speeds threading, so whether using it or not is a matter of > analyzing your application landscape... I agree. Java applications in particular seem to benefi

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2006-02-03 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 03 février à 17:21:34 Simon Prosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | On Friday 03 February 2006 08:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | > OK, dhcpcd does the connection all right, and thanks for that; however I | > still need to enter the user and password informations. I guess it might |

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: > > > > > > xfce-base/libxfce4mcs > > > xfce-base/libxfcegui4 > > > xfce-base/libxfce4util > > > > > > They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN > > > world' portage wants t

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Vrcic
Hi, * Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-02-02 10:04]: thanks for reply! > Segfaults compiling are almost always a hardware issue. memtest86 is > just about useless today, as it cannot detect problems due to dma or > memory timings. > > Try the memtest script available at: > > http://people.

[gentoo-user] Re: Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Mauch
Maarten wrote: > All is cleared up now. Sorry for bothering you. FWIW, you could also run "udevinfo -d" to see all your devices, and use the left side of its output for "udevinfo -a -p". I wonder why the -d switch is not documented neither in "udevinfo -h" nor in the man page. Regards...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-03 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:56, maxim wexler > wrote: > > Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every > attempt > > at using lpr results in > > > > Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad > > > > What do they mean bad? When I run hostname, > "s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Maarten
Michael Mauch wrote: > Maarten wrote: > > >>All is cleared up now. Sorry for bothering you. > > > FWIW, you could also run "udevinfo -d" to see all your devices, and use > the left side of its output for "udevinfo -a -p". Wow, yes, that is a useful tip! Thanks! > I wonder why the -d switch

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 03 February 2006 16:27, Cláudio Henrique wrote: > when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me only one delete > option, the one to move files to the thrash can. however, sometimes I > want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on a thrash can. how > can I do this? is there a

[gentoo-user] No module named java_config

2006-02-03 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Dear list, I recently updated and had to handle some 80 configuration files (that was at least a halfyear since last update). A lot probably went wrong but now the system is up and running. However, when I try to update Openoffice i get the following Traceback (most recent call last): File '

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

2006-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 January 2006 11:45, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?': > Anyone got this to work? Normally, SATA CD/DVD drives are not picked up by the current or mm kernels. There is a libata module option: atapi_enabled sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] move to thrash vs erase for sure

2006-02-03 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Mikhail Yarmish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cláudio Henrique wrote: > > >when I right click a file in konqueror, it gives me > only one delete > >option, the one to move files to the thrash can. > however, sometimes I > >want to shred a file, instead of just putting it on > a thrash can. how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udevinfo or /sys/ problem in Gentoo

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:15:54 +0100, Maarten wrote: > Only the third form prints any useful info, the first > yields an error and the second one does give some little output, but > alas nothing useful. (It is awful that the simple fact of omitting a > trailing "/" makes that much of a difference):

[gentoo-user] What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
What will it do when a package that won't emerge due to masking when you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" set in /etc/make.conf and you comment out the entries in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask about it? I want to install xvidtune but it is masked along with dozens of dependancies for this reason:

Re: [gentoo-user] No module named java_config

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:14 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Dear list, > > I recently updated and had to handle some 80 configuration files (that > was at least a halfyear since last update). A lot probably went wrong > but now the system is up and running. > However, when I try to update Open

[gentoo-user] Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
A while back some posted a way to avoid doing: equery list|grep package to get info like version or whatever. It involved limiting what list returned by some method before it gets to grep. Anyone remember or know what it is. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up > when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so > far but haven't done any real installing just seeing where this > goes and need some coach

[gentoo-user] Re: Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 3 13:41, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > A while back some posted a way to avoid doing: > equery list|grep package to get info like version or whatever. > > It involved limiting what list returned by some method before it gets > to grep. You can do "equery list "

Re: [gentoo-user] Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back some posted a way to avoid doing: > equery list|grep package to get info like version > or whatever. > > It involved limiting what list returned by some > method before it gets > to grep. > > Anyone remember or know what it is. `equery

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
So O.K. I'll probably have to do this from scratch. I've removed my customisations from /etc/udev/rules.d frankies ~ # cd /etc/udev/rules.d/ frankies rules.d # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 346 Jan 23 22:14 05-udev-early.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11612 Jan 23 22:14 50-udev.rules f

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
Xcuse me, forgot this: frankies ~ # lspci | grep USB 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:40 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started > > with an update world somewhen during november last year. > > check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where your soundcard configuration > lives. If it doesn't contain

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:44 +0100, Franta wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:40 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started > > > with an update world somewhen during november last year. > > > > check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where y

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:20 +0100, Franta wrote: > So O.K. > > I'll probably have to do this from scratch. > > I've removed my customisations from /etc/udev/rules.d > > frankies ~ # cd /etc/udev/rules.d/ > frankies rules.d # ls -l > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 346 Jan 23 22:14 05-udev-e

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Vrcic wrote: > Isn't that strange that _all_ C compiles (including some bigger > apps like kernel, mplayer, glib, gtk+) went fine apart from only > few C++'s (I think two)? Maybe because c++ compilation eats loads of memory and thus hits the fishy parts? > If I have a hardware issue, how

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

2006-02-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael Kjorling wrote: > I am having some trouble with X11 DRI on my AMD64 system. It > works fine the first time after a reboot (I have xdm in the > default runlevel so get a graphical login) but after logging off > and back on, all I get is software rendering. Seeing that here too sometimes. I

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-03 Thread Werner Otto
On 2/3/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Vrcic wrote:> Isn't that strange that _all_ C compiles (including some bigger> apps like kernel, mplayer, glib, gtk+) went fine apart from only> few C++'s (I think two)?Maybe because c++ compilation eats loads of memory and thus hits th

Re: [gentoo-user] Logging out and back in kills DRI?

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2006-02-03 22:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seeing that here too sometimes. It seems that the app that used > the DRI doesn't fully release it, so that when X restarts it sees > the DRI as being occupied, and is unable to use it. It looks like > a bug -- either in the app, X, or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-03 Thread matthew . garman
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:25:35PM +, James wrote: > ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > == > ecoca.eed.usv.r 80.96.120.2532 u8 641 202.639 1436722

[gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I purchased a new Dell 9300 to replace teh 8600 I have been using. The lap is nearly identical to teh 8600. When running VMWare with w2k it was unbearably slow. Through some googeling and VMWare's forums I found that teh cpu kept going to sleep state when running vmware. So the best solution I f

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: >> But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up >> when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so >> far but haven't done any real installing

[gentoo-user] Re: Better than equery list|grep something

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > `equery list package` does the same thing Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can do "equery list " to get a list of installed Ahh, knew it was something sort of obvious but couldn't get it right. Thanks posters -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:25:35PM +, James wrote: >> ntpq -p >> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset >> jitter >> == >> ecoca.eed.usv.r 80.96.120.253

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute > it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root : > chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate So that as a > user you can execute the max_cstate comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? > Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that > message with yet another dependancy. You need to list every dependency in there, but first you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:14:33 -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > This works but whenever you boot the laptop you have to su to root and > execute teh chmod again or the state will not be enforced and vmware is > deathly slow. > > Does anyone here have a better solution?? sudo. Giving root rights

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/3/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:40 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: > > On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > > > gets on the Gnome desktop? > > > > > >I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

2006-02-03 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Friday 03 February 2006 17:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute > > it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root : > > chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cst

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? >> Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that >> message with yet another dependancy. > > You need to l

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Feb 2006, at 23:18, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, I keep a terminal launch button available on the gnome-panel but I'm very used to right clicking and choosign the first one without looking. Now I'm getting lots of new folder on my desktop and no terminals! Maybe the Gnome developers decided

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/3/06, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3 Feb 2006, at 23:18, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Yeah, I keep a terminal launch button available on the gnome-panel but > > I'm very used to right clicking and choosign the first one without > > looking. Now I'm getting lots of new folder on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread gentoo-user
Harry Putnam wrote: The reason has been posted in a few messages in this thread or at least in my initial post; from /usr/portage/package.mask: # Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Aug 2005) # Modularized X, upstream release candidates And a quite long string of package names follow incl

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. > > See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at > http://www.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:52:25PM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: > I am using eog-2.12.2. I did not have mime-types installed thus > no /etc/mime.types. Now, I have emerged it but have a different problem > in Firefox. When I try to open svgz files it shows the following error >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune > > I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the > dependancies. > > root # equery depends x11-apps/xvidtune > [ Searching for pac

[gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64

2006-02-03 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

2006-02-03 Thread Bruce Burden
Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site. Well, it looks like the next video card will be an nVidia. At least the support their cards... Errr, no holy wars regarding who makes better cards, please.

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-03 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 04 February 2006 07:05, Willie Wong wrote: > > For firefox, I just found the following tidbit: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg07375.html > > basically, svgz should be gzip'd svg files. For some reason, Firefox > cannot deal with local svgz files, but c

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: >> And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune >> >> I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the >> dependancies. >> >> root # equery d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > > You should, however, be fine as long as you do u

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: > Steve B. wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > > > This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this > > one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom > > (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives

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