Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: > I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to > date.  Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing > it in each time?  Not just portage but any command.  It may work well > for this.  Than again, that may

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner? I didn't know of perl-cleaner. I have never used it, and I don't remember any emerge message telling me to use it (like a python update does). I have just ran per-cleaner all ask. First I run as a normal user (as a test; I was

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: > >> I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to >> date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing >> it in each time? Not just portage but any command. It may work well >>

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: >> On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: >> > SO please check how much available memory you have >> >> I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. > > So, I killed fire

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 10:06: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: >> >>> I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to >>> date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add options without typing >>> it in each time? Not just porta

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 10:06: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 23 November 2008 06:23:41 Dale wrote: >>> >>> I guess we need to add that option to make sure we are REALLY up to date. Isn't there a way to tell a command to add opti

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 11:31: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >> I think there is a more elegant solution by using EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in >> make.conf. >> >> grep EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS /etc/make.conf >> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --nospinner" >> >> From man.make.conf: >> >> EMERGE_DEFAULT_O

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Dale schrieb am 23.11.2008 11:31: > >> > > I think I got the information about --with-bdeps from here [1], so this > is all the information I have. > Also I am still on stable portage, while I guess you are not (as > /etc/make.conf.example is still in place), so I don't

[gentoo-user] Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread JC D
Hi group, I have a HP tx1000 with touchscreen.  In the forum I found that there is a chance to get the Touchscreen running with the new beta-version of the eGalax driver. (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) The manual installation worked but when I try to callibrate the

[gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Norman Hakim
hi all, Do i have to configure anything so that i can connect my pc using projector as my monitor?or do i just directly connect without any configuration? NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA

[gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after it is invoked. Reading through the man pages of dhclient

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: > > Calculating dependencies / > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/gst-plugins:0.8" have been > masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - media-libs/gst-plug

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the flag, > Dorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss its target ;) > > > This is a sample of my file. This should help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # cat /etc/portage/package.unmask #>=app-pda/libopens

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the flag, Dorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss its target ;) Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-11-23 13:36]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: > > > > Calculating dependencie

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
I know the unmask procedure as something like (for example) kde-base/kitchensync ~x86 in case of an ordinary intelish PC... So, if unmasking without the ~x86 I will try that. mcc Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-11-23 13:56]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is

[gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi While doing revdep-rebuild I got this one: Calculating dependencies / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/gst-plugins:0.8" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 (masked by: ) In package-key

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Le Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:23:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > So, how can I unmask "gst-plugins"? > You can't. Simply because the package 'gst-plugins' doesn't exist anymore in the official tree. You should update your ebuilds from your overlays. Try : $ equery d gst-plugins to

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Oh, I see...and what can I use instead? Fabrice Delliaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-11-23 14:06]: > Le Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:23:49 +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > > So, how can I unmask "gst-plugins"? > > > > You can't. Simply because the package 'gst-plugins' doesn't exist > anymore in t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sunday 23 November 2008 14:20:51 damian wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as a daemon) right af

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 14:09:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Oh, I see...and what can I use instead? 0.10 Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] qtiplot

2008-11-23 Thread brullo nulla
Hi, I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. Unfortunately: - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, and when compilng qtiplot seems to pick invariably the qwt-5. How do I force qtiplot to build with qwt-4 ? - qtiplot 0.9.x requires to unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hi again, Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 duo laptop to drop the login prompt without X, wireless supplicant, cron daemon or sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. > Try adding > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) > wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" > config_ath0=( "dhcp" ) > to your /etc/conf.d/net file. Make sure that you have not built/modpr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I > modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was > faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 > duo laptop t

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based URL, unless I explicitly trust the provider. RobbieAB signature.asc Description: PGP sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > Do i have to configure anything so that i can connect my pc using > projector as my monitor?or do i just directly connect without any > configuration? Depends on the graphics card, the drivers, and how

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner? > > I didn't know of perl-cleaner. I have never used it, and I don't > remember any emerge message telling me to use it (like a python update > does). > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
> You wanted to pass options to your dhcp client. The page mentioned > shows two ways of doing that: > 1) By setting the variable dhcp_eth0 to a space-delimited string of > options, like > dhcp_eth0="release nodns nontp nonis" > These generic options work for any of the dhclient, dhcpcd, pump and

Re: [gentoo-user] unmask what ?

2008-11-23 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:59:40 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-11-23 13:56]: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes, I know...the only thing I dont know is the name of the > > > flag, Sorry, if my satiric comment of my previous posting miss > > > its target ;) > ^ >

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire gateway

2008-11-23 Thread John Blinka
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2008, Noven Purnell-Webb wrote: > > > Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. > > Try adding > > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) > > wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" > > config_ath0=( "

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and at&t 2wire g ateway

2008-11-23 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
>> > Perhps you are authenticating but then not getting a dhcp address. >> > Try adding >> > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) >> > wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" >> > config_ath0=( "dhcp" ) >> > to your /etc/conf.d/net file. >> > > Tried your suggestion above, but it didn't help. > > my /etc/con

[gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:29:39 + Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) > JC D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) > > Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based > U

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Wallis
On 23/11/2008, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as a daemon) right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:16:52 -0600 »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:29:39 + > Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) > > JC D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.ht

[gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread William Kenworthy
Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via NFS and samba for backups and shared files. What I would really like is a file system tha

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Kobboi
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of > gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte > is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via > NFS and samba for back

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Kobboi wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of >> gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte >> is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is exported via

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Norman Hakim
NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Sun, 11/23/08, Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:31 AM > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:38

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > Kobboi wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > >> Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of > >> gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte > >> is unused, b

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of gail-1000

2008-11-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, from time to time this message pops up after syncing: [blocks B ] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread john stampe
Norman, Most of the projectors I have worked with can simply be plugged into the computer the same as with a monitor. The only thing I have ever had to configure is sometimes the monitor section in xorg.conf, but that is usually not necessary. If possible try the projector before hand. Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Roy Wright
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 terrabyte is unused, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > I think it is LVMS or something.  Linux volume management system??  I > think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management 2) EVMS: Enterprise Volume Management System 1) is us

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 23:31:30 schrieb William Kenworthy: > What I would really like is a file system that would unify these spaces > and present them to the network as storage space - ideally with > redundant data storage so one or more machines can dissappear and the > data is still avai

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-23 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: > > >> I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I >> think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. >> > > Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: > > 1) LVM: Logical Volume Management > 2) EVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE build problem (shifted)

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Christian Apeltauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look at bug #246568. There you will find a patch which worked for me. > Someone has also posted an ebuild integrating that patch. But it does > not work for everybody and the bug was closed as a problem with > upstrea

[gentoo-user] [OT] unloading wacom module

2008-11-23 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! After adding wacom bamboo I have a problem: at exiting from X (any DE - KDE, Gnome. fluxbox) DE freezes. I have found in Xorg.log there is a problem of unloading wacom module: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x65) [0x482c25] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f012ad85ee0] 2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input