Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: > Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. > But I could be mistaken... I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > walt schrieb: > >> Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. >> But I could be mistaken... > > I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error While I am at it For a while I also face the fact that when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > walt schrieb: > >> Excellent! I'm almost (52% ;o) positive that it was somewhere in ~/.gconf. >> But I could be mistaken... > > I will simply backup my home and remove dirs by trial and error removing ~/.gconf did the trick, thanks! Ok, I had to readjust so

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. > At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) > > It ain't that important although I would like to see them working, it's > a bit hard to understand that issues like this don't just work as wel

Re: [gentoo-user] new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: > I noticed I've been masking gcc beyond version 4.3.2-r3, and have > forgotten why I had it masked. > > I'm updating world right now, and wondered if I were to move up to > most recent gcc (4.4.2), which would be a 5 version jump, what I could > expect in the way of problems

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Dale ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of >>> letting a computer do it for him. >>> >> Maybe the assignment is to write a program to solve the equation. >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of > >>> letting a computer do it for him. > >> > >> Maybe the assignment is to write a program t

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: > > Dale ha scritto: > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of > > >>> letting a computer

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: >> >>> Dale ha scritto: >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> And maybe it will

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Erik
Dale skrev: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:43 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> >> >>> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, bn wrote: >>> >>> Dale ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Mon, 02 N

[gentoo-user] Re: program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread James
Erik gmail.com> writes: > Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? > Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) > for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = > 700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An addi

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:42:14 Erik wrote: > Fine. I think that I found a relevant package: sci-mathematics/glpk-4.35 > > It even has an example called "assignment problem". If the package is > installed with the USE-flag "examples", the example will be installed to > [/usr/share/doc/glpk-4.

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Erik
Alan McKinnon skrev: > That's because you worded your question like a dumbass user asking someone > else to do their homework for him. I did not mention anything related to homework or that I would still be a student or anything like that. It was just a standard question of knowing which Gentoo p

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Erik ha scritto: > Alan McKinnon skrev: >> That's because you worded your question like a dumbass user asking someone >> else to do their homework for him. > > I did not mention anything related to homework or that I would still be > a student or anything like that. It was just a standard questio

[gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/02/2009 06:32 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> FATAL: error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko): >>> No such device >>> >>> ???lspci begs to differ >> >> I've never seen that error from nvidia, and I've seen lots of >> errors :o( >> >> Are you sure the nvidia module that was ac

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 12:23 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > While I am at it > > For a while I also face the fact that when I log out of my > gnome-session, the xorg-server doesn't get up again. It tries to restart > 3 times and fails, Xorg.0.log says something about "failed to load load > modules

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Nov 2009, at 15:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:42:14 Erik wrote: Fine. I think that I found a relevant package: sci-mathematics/ glpk-4.35 It even has an example called "assignment problem". If the package is installed with the USE-flag "examples", the example w

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 12:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > walt schrieb: >> Perhaps you have something left over from your gnome session >> that doesn't stop when it should. I see that quite often. > > hmm, any idea how to find that? I use ps ax to see the running processes. Sometimes I see apps ob

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the past. And in fact, I didn't record my first builds on this kernel but I'm pretty sure my first build did have all P

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT MODULES. Also, you need to compile in the filesystem, not as module.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/3/2009 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Try recompiling the evdev, mo

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the >> things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have >> messed up mouse and keyboard in X. > > Did you follow the elog instru

Re: [gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, long time no post :) Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL > (woot). > > Glad you are back. Yep, DSL is s nice. I just downloaded TWO DVDs, 4.3Gb each. It took a day but that is better than weeks over dial-up. LOL Now if I had cable, yea baby !! I'm no

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. Instead, it continually

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-11-03 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/30/2009 10:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> > > do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the > problem? because it seems to

[gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below is not overly confusing]

[gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, long time no post :) Good to see that Dale finally has aDSL (woot). I just upgraded to gnome 2.28, compiz 0.8.4, and various other things in a recent large update. I'm using ~x86. After a few compile problems the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay (I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:24 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the > things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have > messed up mouse and keyboard in X. Did you follow the elog instructions about re-emerging drivers?

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to > work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those > utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay > connected to the base stati

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
091103 Harry Putnam wrote: > building a new kernel has always been a problem for me. > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. I find it doable with a bit of care (smile). > After install of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r4 > I started with `make oldconfig' > Moved from that to `make

[gentoo-user] Netqmail and local mail

2009-11-03 Thread Momesso Andrea
I've set up a mail server serving 2 domains following this howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml The server works fine and can send and recive mails. The problem is that I don't know anymore where to find my local mail, for example mail sent by cron jobs. I'd like to have it forw

[gentoo-user] Re: new version of gcc

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters. Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have messed up mouse and keyboard in X. But even that, is a lesser problem than my kernel build ends up in a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mythfrontend problems: no more keyboard, no window borders

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
walt schrieb: > On 11/03/2009 12:23 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> While I am at it >> >> For a while I also face the fact that when I log out of my >> gnome-session, the xorg-server doesn't get up again. It tries to restart >> 3 times and fails, Xorg.0.log says something about "failed to

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng: v2->v3 config issue...

2009-11-03 Thread Jarry
Hi, as syslog-ng 3.0.x became stable, all my servers updated to it from 2.1.4, but I have a problem with configuration: In 2.x I used "log_prefix()" option for "file()" source. When I tried to start syslog-ng 3.x it complained about "log_prefix()" being deprecated, and said I have to use "program

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X crashes with nvidia-173 driver

2009-11-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> I'm guessing that the xorg server couldn't load its 'nvidia' module because > the nvidia kernel module wasn't loaded, so that's no surprise. > > Does modprobe -nv nvidia say anything interesting? kyzyl ~ # modprobe -nv nvidia insmod /lib/modules/2.6.29/video/nvidia.ko NVreg_DeviceFileMode=432 N

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread walt
On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
walt writes: > There's no reason to use menuconfig after running oldconfig, If your > old kernel was using all of the hardware, then the new kernel should, > too, just with oldconfig. I don't know about that. I found a whole lot of stuff different when I ran menuconfig and checked the old and

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread hamilton
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: > On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >> 10+ yrs.. >> >> Many people here seem to find it com

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
hamilton writes: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: >> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >>> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >>> 10+ yrs.. >>> >>> Many peopl

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm using ~x86. After a few compile problems > the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay well, not anymore. I re-synced; emerged; broke X; fixed X; and now it's all working again. That takes me back to th

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to > work properly under Gentoo? NetworkManager, yes. I just started using it recently. > When I attempt to use either of those > utilities to get onto my wireless n

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sends faulty emails

2009-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > Are you using ssmtp to send them? If so, you need to set hostname > > > in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. > > > I have no idea how they are being sent. This just started > > autonomo

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > hamilton writes: > > >> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:18 -0800, walt wrote: >> >>> On 11/03/2009 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam writes: > I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to > be incorporated so no I didn't > > If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig > is what I would have used. That is the wrong way round! make oldconfig uses the .config in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:46:54 Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT > > MODULES. > > Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the > past. > If you do not use an initrd|initra

[gentoo-user] Re: Unclaimed display?

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Mick wrote: > I am looking at the lshw of a compaq desktop with pci-express and a Radeon > X600 and see that it's VGA and secondary dispalyes are "unclaimed". What > does this mean? http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter#Howtointerpretlshwsoutput

[gentoo-user] Re: X freezes with ati radeon driver

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:00:07PM +0200, Jacques Montier wrote: > As fglrx ati driver does not work with >gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 kernel > and my ati radeon 9600 (RV350) graphic card, i try to use the free > radeon driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.4) > I compiled the gentoo-sources-2.6.31

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/db & dev-lang/php dependency problem...

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 06:56:17PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > # emerge --depclean <...> > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the > * packages that pulled them in. > * > * sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4