Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are > > blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other > > problems were cleared up, and this > > ava

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and fetch restrictions

Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that portage stops when it runs into a package like java that > has a fetch restriction. I use the -f option a lot and it used to keep > fetching then print at the end that a file was not downloaded. Is this > a bug or is there a reason for this? I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:52:52 Dale wrote: > I used to use supermount too.  Switching for me was pretty easy tho.  I > had some compatibility issues between versions of hal and ivman once but > nothing really major, just annoying as usual. > > I guess I'm one of those, if it works, just use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:36:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-11, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My research into nvidia's docs leads me to believe that TwinView is > > designed to make the presence of two physical monitors invisible and > > present one giant X screen, with a f

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: >> > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are >> > blocking. I have run emerge -e s

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

On Sunday 12 October 2008 10:25:51 Andrey Vul wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> > Almost perpetually, the following package

[gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to swi

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and fetch restrictions

Graham Murray wrote: > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I noticed that portage stops when it runs into a package like java that >> has a fetch restriction. I use the -f option a lot and it used to keep >> fetching then print at the end that a file was not downloaded. Is this >> a bug or

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:52:52 Dale wrote: > >> I used to use supermount too. Switching for me was pretty easy tho. I >> had some compatibility issues between versions of hal and ivman once but >> nothing really major, just annoying as usual. >> >> I guess I'm one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no > possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). > > How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Erik Hahn: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and > > no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats > > happened?). > > > > How do I fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the > > console. It's just hidden "behind" the X server. Maybe you can reproduce > > the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the > > VTs) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 10:25:51 Andrey Vul wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > >> On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. D

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > > If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the > > > console. It's just hidden "behind" the X server. Maybe you can > > > reproduce the problem working with

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

> Hey Grant, > I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm > opening a case with asus for repairs...). > > First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a > USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye > lite-version-of-xandro

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

On 2008-10-12, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Cons: >> >> * You can't drag a window from one display to the other. > > This is pretty much a requirement for how I like to do things > at work Two displays is probably not an option for you. > The rest of your pros and cons either su

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:34:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > My notebook has this graphics hardware. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev > a1) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo xdpyinfo | grep -A4 's

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacements for ivman

Dale gmail.com> writes: > > How have you got it set up and how long has it been that way? Experienced any > > brokenness while it's been in use? > Basically, I just emerged it and restarted KDE. It just worked. I > don't recall changing anything as far as configs go. > It has been that way

[gentoo-user] Wine + USB to serial adapter

Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter that uses the pl2303 driver, and have [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.wine/dosdevices $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adam users 12 May 9 04:08 com1 -> /dev/ttyUSB0 But it doesnt appear to work. Si

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

Grant Edwards wrote: [snip] There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two monitors. [snip] Pros: * Mouse movement and focus still act like one large display. * Each display can have it's own set of virtual d

[gentoo-user] Fail to build "eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3" cause of missing gjar

I try to use eclipse, so I emerged eclipse-sdk. But it failed while building eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3. The error message is like below. * * ERROR: dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.4-r3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3769: Called die * The specific sni

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, My notebook has this graphics hardware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) I have a Quadro FX 1600M, using nvidia-drivers... I also have a second LCD monitor at work, a 1280x102

[gentoo-user] {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

I've got my Philips SPC900NC webcam taking videos with the streamer command from the xawtv package, but I'd like to use a program to record videos based on motion detection. zoneminder looks good but seems difficult to set up and would be overkill. motion looks about right, but segfaults for me l