[gentoo-user] KDE3 k-menu: hotkey not working after renaming of mozilla-firefox-bin package

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi group I have set up my firefox item in k-menu to be launched via Win+Z. A short while ago, mozilla-firefox-bin was renamed to only firefox-bin. At first, the shortcut wasn’t visible anymore until I changed its command manually to firefox-bin¹. But since then also, the shortcut doesn’t work a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE3 k-menu: hotkey not working after renaming of mozilla-firefox-bin package

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > Hi group > > I have set up my firefox item in k-menu to be launched via Win+Z. A short > while ago, mozilla-firefox-bin was renamed to only firefox-bin. At first, > the shortcut wasn’t visible anymore until I changed its command manually to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my >> whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal >> user, the smplayer does not have som

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/17/2010 11:42 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal user, the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:40:44 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: > . If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted > dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another > directory. That "copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts" (as if you > accessed it from a livecd), Or you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 16 January 2010 22:14:00 walt wrote: > On 01/16/2010 08:32 AM, Mikie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS > > root. > > > > My question is: > > > > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > > cer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:28:53 Jarry wrote: > >> Now I installed one more sata-disk, attached to "sata4" > >> position on mobo. But this changed the way how other > >> disks are detected: > >> > >> Mobo: drive: system: > >> sata1 160GB /dev/sdb > >> sata2 160GB /dev/sdc > >> sata3 dvdrw (not_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > >>> my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my > >>> whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal > >>> user, the smplayer does not have some. i have already add that user > >>> account in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: >>> [...] >>> I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Jarry
On 17. 1. 2010 11:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: In between I got a reply from other mailing list saying "it is not a bug, it is a feature!". And the reason for this feature is udev - it creates dev-files dynamically and sata port-numbers do not play any role for order in which hard-drives are detecte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 11:30:00 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Saturday 16 January 2010 20:28:53 Jarry wrote: > > >> Now I installed one more sata-disk, attached to "sata4" > > >> position on mobo. But this changed the way how other > > >> disks are detected: > > >> > > >> Mobo: drive: system: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sata disk assignment mismatch...

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 15:14:06 Jarry wrote: > > If all you are doing is making filesystems available for use, and you > > find you are getting involved with device names, then you are doing > > something contrary to current kernel/udev/userspace practice. > > If your last paragraph ist true, t

[gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If this pans out, maybe there's a chance Dale can get a working (recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If this pans out, maybe there's a chance Dale ca

RE: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Mikie
Had you ever thought of asking this on an Ubuntu list rather than a Gentoo one? [K. Mike Bradley] Sorry Ubuntu server Gentoo client My question is what parts if the FSH should be local on the Gentoo client.

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: > From my understanding, isn't the same guy doing devicekit that did > hal? I'm not saying it won't be better because it should be. From what > I read a good while back, he learned a lot about the pitfalls of hal. > He, most likely, will

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to > hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: > > entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. > > When I say *entirely*, that's what the blog said - entirely. If t

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
pk writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I >> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner >> understand how to utilize the new proceedure. > > xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations of Xorg. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 18:18:36 Eray Aslan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > From my understanding, isn't the same guy doing devicekit that did > > hal? I'm not saying it won't be better because it should be. From what > > I read a good while back, he learned

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon wrote: > As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to > hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: > > entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. It seems that DeviceKit is no help for the various bugs in hald that prevent writng CDs/DVDs/BluRays un

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Walker
Eray Aslan wrote: > It is usually done right in the third version. First one too small, > second one too big, third one just right :) > > I think it is called "Second System Effect" > No, it's called "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. Xorg is removing HAL support; as of xorg-server-1.8 HAL is no longer used. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc2Mw Devicekit will not replace HAL entirely: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL Btw, devicekit has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Walker
Joerg Schilling wrote: > how do we > prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald? > The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. ;) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 January 2010 15:25:09 James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: > Ok, I do not know what it is called. It's called the kdm login manager (it is a Display Manager). > I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3 > It's the kde scre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-17 Thread pk
Harry Putnam wrote: > For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are > custom settings regarding the X session done? Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/ Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change these days is the motherboards I want to purchase no longer support EIDE/ATAPI interfaces so I'll have to get a new CD-R/DVD-R drive to get the OS loaded and

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem

2010-01-17 Thread Mihai Tanasescu
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:09:44 +0200, Mihai Tanasescu wrote: gate etc # ls -la /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Jan 16 12:08 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop gate etc # emerge eselect --- Invalid atom in /usr/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-17 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 01/17, Neil Bothwick wrote: === > Or you could simply use the -x option with rsync. But copying an in > use filesystem is a bad idea, better to boot from a live CD and do > the job there. If you want to minimise downtime, === I recently did something like this. I did use the 10th anni

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jan 2010, at 18:42, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: As our resident hal-hater-in-charge, Dale will no doubt be *very* pleased to hear of what Ubuntu is doing for 10.04: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. It seems that DeviceKit is no help for the various bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller wrote: > > It seems that DeviceKit is no help for the various bugs in hald that > > prevent writng CDs/DVDs/BluRays under certain circumstances. > > > > I did write mail to the DeviceKit maintainer to no avail, ... > > You probably didn't bitch him out thoroughly enough, Joerg. I did se

[gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-17 Thread Crístian Viana
hi! I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't load the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit. Xorg is removing HAL support; as of xorg-server-1.8 HAL is no longer used. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc2Mw Devicekit will not replace HAL entirely: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL Bt

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Mikie wrote: >> I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS >> root. >> >> My question is: >> >> Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for >> certain root dir? >> >> Should Tmp  be local

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem

2010-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:16:33 +0200, Mihai Tanasescu wrote: > emerge --info: > > Output can be found here: > http://dpaste.com/146596/ Please don't put important information on temporary sites, it makes reading the thread in the archives at a later date useless. > gate ~ # emerge --info > --- In

[gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

2010-01-17 Thread Grant
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this nearly 4-year-old bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 The solution is presented as: qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-17 Thread Xi Shen
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: > hi! > I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) > and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't load > the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library > really

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:39 -0500, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > > with 2.6.31 everything works fine (network manager, wpa supplicant, > > etc). However with 2.6.32, I can load the module (iwlagn) and see it in > > dmesg, but iwconfig just says "wlan0 no wireless extensions." and I > > can't associate

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 January 2010 05:59:14 Grant wrote: > I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it > was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this > nearly 4-year-old bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 > > The solution is presented as: > > qlist -

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 January 2010 22:14:06 Neil Walker wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > how do we > > prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald? > > The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. > ;) That might not be a bad idea I never agreed with