Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The final remaining problem is with the 3 statements scattered > through the rules... > > -A ICMP_IN -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED > -A TCP_IN -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -j UNSOLICITED > -A UDP_IN -p udp -m state --state NEW -j UNSOLICITED The "-

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

Iain Buchanan wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder, do not delete.' Otherwise a revision of the sloc

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with > > '## Placeholder, do not delete.' > > > > Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script > > back

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

Graham Murray wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The > > config protection mechanism works only for existing files. &g

[gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:05:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of > > copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in > > /etc will still be the old one. > > You are not supposed to link it any more, because tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, > > let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then > > a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? > > No idea, but I tried it wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard video

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP" could anyone tell me, what driver should I > use for it ? For the moment: xf86-video-vesa. Support for your type of Chrome integrated graphics chip is being worked on: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats If you

Re: [gentoo-user] noatime option is ignored for /

Robert Cernansky wrote: > and 'mount' command shows: > > /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,usrquota,grpquota) > > but /proc/mounts does not show noatime option: > > /dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 Hmm, same thing here: # grep "/ " /etc/mtab /dev/hda9 / reiserfs rw,noatim

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

Devon Miller wrote: > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded > disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no > compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. If OpenGL acceleration is a must, yo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

David Harel wrote: > emerge freealut failes with error: alutInit.c:150: error: wrong > type argument to unary exclamation mark. Too short. Email. Not enough. Info. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/29/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go > > through kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that > > takes some time. I guess one can reuse the old .config file, > > but I understand it's not always a s

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

Mat Harris wrote: > My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord > (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to > files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: > [...] /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Options.glade /usr/share/AbiSui

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

Mat Harris wrote: > So from now on I should always install a package with "-meta" if > its from kde (providing one is available eg. kdevelop)? Not necessarily. The meta packages are there to pull in a whole group of packages, so you don't have to name them all separately. But if you just use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU > left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting endle

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: > > > Is it safe to move my linux system by using: > > > #>cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part > > > > 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell XPS M1710 and Sound

Colleen Beamer wrote: > The *laptop* soundcard is an hda-intel. Ah, welcome to the madness that is called hda-intel. There are several versions of that thing, and each version comes in several different models. My dad's laptop has an ALC260, but whatever 'model=' modprobe option I tried, it s

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail cutting too late (was: Can't login with a normal user)

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 schrieb Jan-Hendrik Zab: > > O_o Dunno why it should be different in KMail? > > Hmm, maybe it's confused because of the two separators. It cuts > off after the second one, KMail by design cuts at the last separator instead of the first. Attached

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

> tux boot # df -T /boot >Type 1K Blocks UsedAvailable Use% > Mounted in /dev/hdc1 reiserfs 40120 40120 0 > 100% /boot > > That isn't the literal output, I had to translate it, There's no need to translate it. When posting output of a comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: > I would really like to automate this process - that's why I woul > really like to be able to acquire the EDID or something similar > (model specs or just a unique binary value) at boot time, so I can > invoke an appropriate script during system init. $ eix edid * x

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

Gregory SACRE wrote: > Other question about my problem: is it possible that it would be > a sector problem, and that those sectors would contain the > journaling of ext3? Yes, it looks like it. :( > And that would be the reason why I can mount > it as ext2 and not ext3? No. An ext3 filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] XF86AudioRaiseVolume does not work in KDE after updating to 3.5.3

Dan Johansson wrote: > > > Some weeks ago I updated my Desktop to 3.5.2 and after that > > > the XF86AudioRaiseVolume button on my Logitech keyboard does > > > [not] increase the master volume. > > kcontroll will not accept the XF86AudioRaiseVolume button when > trying to create an input action. D

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:33, Richard Fish wrote: > > Hmm, looks like "man mount" hasn't kept pace with the kernel. > > Apologies. > > yeah, that is a big problem. The data=journal option is AFAIR two > years old. > > The manpages are pretty... out of sync. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/2/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Information about my grapchic card:VGA compatible > > controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter > > (rev 01) > > I'm not sure if you need the s3 > or via driver for your hardware The via o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Reply to errors

Mick wrote: > Nevertheless, I tried pressing 'l' on a non-gentoo ML and it > didn't work. :( For what it's worth, it works here. To just reply to the sender (the From: field), press Shift+A. > Could it be that my Kmail is borked and I need to remerge it? Better upgrade to a newer version. Ben

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X.org issue (feelings of absolute failure)

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > VIDEO_CARDS="vesa via s3 vga fbdev" (although i am not sure about > s3) The s3 won't hurt, it'll just build something that won't get used, just like the vga and fbdev. The vesa is nice to have as a fallback. > 01:00.0 0300: 1106:3108 (rev 01) > Subsystem: 18

Re: [gentoo-user] CTRL+ALT arrows keys to move between words in Konsole

Marco Lazzeri wrote: > many emerges ago, I used to move between words in my bash Konsole > keeping pressed CTRL+ALT and using the arrows keys, exactly like > the more classic ESC+B (backward) & ESC+F (forward) do. How to do it for Ctrl+Alt+arrow I don't know, but for just Ctrl+arrow add this to y

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] determining date of web pages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I tell ahead of time or quickly what the vintage of a > webpage that looks interesting is? In general: you can't. If a page does not contain the date it was made, there's no other way to find out. > Here is an example page: > http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetv

Re: [gentoo-user] Using LINGUAS on a per package basis like with USE

Fernando Canizo wrote: > I found my post on GWN and saw Bo Ørsted Andresen's reply there, > that reply never came to my box, I don't know why. It happens now and then, mails from this list get lost on their way to the subscribers: some receive them, some don't. > I get very annoyed by the transl

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

Willie Wong wrote: > LESS (should be -R -M --shift 5 by default) When doing export LESS="-R -M --shift 5" a C-file viewed with 'less' is coloured. But when doing export LESS="-RM --shift 5" not. What is being tripped up where here? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

Willie Wong wrote: > # Only colorize if we know less will handle raw codes > for opt in ${LESS} ; do > if [[ ${opt} == "-r" || ${opt} == "-R" ]] ; > [...] > > I would probably consider that a bug worth filing on b.g.o. Done, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.c

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

Mick wrote: > unlike gecko and Khtml engined browsers Opera does not > divulge Referrer headers, unless you set it to do so. Firefox can also withhold the Referer line. In about:config filter for referer, set it to zero. Anyone know if Konqeeror can do this? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/libpng-1.2.13 emerge -u missing file

Joem wrote: > 15:27:26 (24.84 KB/s) - > `/usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-manual.txt' saved [128288/128288] The size here is different: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 127770 Dec 3 2004 /usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-manual.txt > * checking libpng-manual.txt ;-) > ... > [ !! ] > > !!! A file listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/libpng-1.2.13 emerge -u missing file

Joem wrote: > Hi, Darn. Why do you send messages twice? No, don't answer that. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot to new environment complains about kernel

Bertram Scharpf wrote: > I try to chroot to a brand new environment, freshly unpacked > from stage 3: > > kyle # chroot /mnt/hdb/ /bin/bash > FATAL: kernel too old > kyle # uname -a > Linux kyle 2.6.8-3-686 #1 Tue Dec 5 21:26:38 UTC 2006 i686 2.6.8? That's old. Why not upgrade the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT

Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I recently switched to ~x86 and with it to xorg 7.x. Are you sure it's due to upgrading Xorg and not Gnome? See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/175870 > I saw that > the xkb syntax changed, so I updated it accordingly, > but now I can't switch to VT's

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

Mark Knecht wrote: > At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay > what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I > don't know it will be removed until it's been removed. You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up the entire /usr/portage tree, and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay > > > what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I > > > don

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

Mark Knecht wrote: > if binary packages were built and stored in some reasonable > location then I could probably prune out things that I'm not > worried about, But then, one day, you'll see that you've pruned something you shouldn't have, something that one of the things you did keep needs as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

Alan McKinnon wrote: > Any custom changes you make to > the tree are wiped out with the next --sync anyway, Who is talking about making custom changes? Who would make such changes to the main /usr/portage tree anyway? We're talking about a simple user here, no extras, no frills, no adaptations

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

Neil Bothwick wrote: > Overlays are there specifically for people who need > something different from the standard portage tree. They are > hardly difficult to use, Not difficult, but it is clumsy: mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package ## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:09:55 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package > > ## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked: > > Unless you are really short of disk space, what's wrong with > copy

Re: [gentoo-user] working with overlays

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 20:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Bo once said (or was it someone else?) he > > had such a script.  If so, Bo, please post the script. > > You may be referring to this post: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lin

Re: [gentoo-user] A bash > query ...

Dave S wrote: > Is there an expression that redirects standard output and > standard error - at present I am using the ungainly > > > /dev/null 2> /dev/null The following two commands: man bash /^REDIRECT Or more directly: man bash /two formats Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r-r4 fails

Dale wrote: > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -march=athlon-xp -O2 > > -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident Why do you have these last two things in your CFLAGS? Remove them and try again. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT

Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > have the same problem > as with Gnome, still can[not] switch to a VT... > > If I open a term and try the usual Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F7 key > combination I get : > > PQRS;7~;7~;7~ First: stop top-posting. A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text. Q: W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

Adrian wrote: > I call it strange magic. > > I had the same problems, Windows keys didn't work and CTR-ALT-F1 > would not switch to a VT . . . > > David said, if I'm reading this right, he had to take > "nodeadkeys" out. Well, I didn't have that options, I added it, > and now it works fine. Ctrl+

Re: [gentoo-user] bug in usermod, full name of options doesn't work

Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Goal: add gottlieb to group scanner. > > It seems that -aG works but --append --groups doesn't Please try attached patch. I'll report this bug upstream, mentioning that you found it. Benno diff -ur cvs-shadow/src/usermod.c shadow/src/usermod.c --- cvs-shadow/src/usermod.c

Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT

Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > First: stop top-posting. > > I was not aware that > "Top-posting" was a bad thing, since you can read the last msg > first, Sure, but then you have to spaghetti first down, then up, then maybe down again to r

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I emerge a program with debugging options?

qfpvajdy wrote: > I would like to emerge a program with debugging options > CFLAGS="-g" and without strip at the end of the build. You could define an alias. # type dbgemerge dbgemerge is aliased to `USE='debug' FEATURES='nostrip -test' CFLAGS='-ggdb -O1 -pipe' CXXFLAGS='-ggdb -O1 -pipe' LDFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] error message concerning modules on boot

John covici wrote: > I am getting the following error when I boot -- is this something > all gentoo users get or am I doing something wrong? > > [...] > Jan 21 08:26:53 ccs kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.18. > Jan 21 08:26:53 ccs kernel: Error querying loaded modules - > Function not impl

Re: [gentoo-user] Direct rendering on a Radeon

Jan Stępień wrote: > If I understand it correctly, this means that if I want a 3D > acceleration I've got to use closed ATI's fglrx, No, there is constant development on the R300 front. What versions of Mesa, x11-drm, and libdrm do you have installed? For which apps run for sure with 3D accel o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

Jan Stępień wrote: > In my > USE flag "unicode" is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

Ernie Schroder wrote: > This is just too wierd! I've done all the maintainance steps > everyone has suggested, probably several times by now, but kmail > still refuses to send email. What's in your .kde/share/config/kmailrc under the [Transport x] headers? > kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED

Ernie Schroder wrote: > would be > interesting to find what caused the problems in the first place. Well, you do keep backups, don't you? :) Then diff an old .kde dir with your current one. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

Abhay Kedia wrote: > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119146 > > Is there any chance that Gentoo developers could commit this fix > to the portage, even though it is still in SVN? Unlikely: search bugs.gentoo.org for similar kde bugs and you'll see they get marked UPST (upstream). Normally on

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

Alan E. Davis wrote: > But one glaring deficiency keeps hitting me in the face---you > can't do links with them. With Konq you can: hold Ctrl+Shift while dragging and dropping a file. (But that's only symlinks, and surely you wish to do hard links too. :) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

Ian wrote: > But there are still a few things in /usr/kde/3.5 > Dirs: env, share, shutdown > What should I do? Throw the whole 3.5 dir away. (Tar it up first, if you wish to play it safe.) Also clean out any *kde*3.5 files from /etc/env.d and run env-update.sh. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as > described here(This bug #83238 > ) That bug is not about kdegraphics but about revdep-rebuild. > Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Abhay Kedia wrote: > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. How? What commands do you give? > Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I > see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which > I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

Ian wrote: > What is the bare minimum? Its emerge kicker kdesktop > konsole kcontrol right? No, leave out the kdesktop, it will get pulled in automatically, at least here it did. Also, you won't need kcontrol if you don't want to adjust anything. But don't you want kmail and konqueror? Benno

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the > > adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full > > hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

Abhay Kedia wrote: > Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? As seen from the debug output, hwclock works fine without it. But maybe some other programs have some use for it, I don't know, here it is off. > I am also using HPET in my kernel. Can I use both these features? > Do they clash with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

James wrote: > I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any > programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces scan codes. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. Please give us one example. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

Ralph K wrote: > I recently installed xorg 7.0 on my system and I get the > following errors when using 'startx' or 'Xorg -configure': > Wth module glx -> 'undefined symbol' glCallList > With module via_drv -> 'undefined symbol' drmCommandWrite To get the newer via driver to load, I've had to add

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

A. R. wrote: > I've been having some problems with kmail. > When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The > original message and my response are both blank. > > Does anybody know what could be causing this? A miscompiled KMail? Did you recompile it recently? Or kdelibs maybe?

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails > due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load "GLcore"' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

James wrote: > showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it > working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an > awkward location on the keyboard. On my keyboard the "normal" Delete key produces keycode 111, and the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Are y

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I add the "Load GLcore" I get a "undefined symbol" for > __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in > libglx.so) > Without (or without) "Load GLcore" I get a failure on "Load glx" > from and "undefined symbol" glCallList which is provided in > libG

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

A. R. wrote: > > > I've been having some problems with kmail. > > > When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: > > > The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with "the message is delivered blank"? If you configure KMail and set the Default send

Re: [gentoo-user] [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do I need to turn off in kde-3.5 so that mounted or umounted > devices never show up on my desktop window? Maybe under KDE Components > Service Manager > Startup Services, switching off KDED Media Manager? And relogin to KDE. > I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Oops, I meant 83. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

Adrian wrote: > Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- > every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was > working fine. > > [...] > > [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4 [2.12.0] -debug +doc > +ssl -static 661 kB If you run 'emerge -pet abiword', you'l

Re: [gentoo-user] Redefining a single key in Xorg 6.8?

Michael Kjorling wrote: > How do I change this one key without creating a whole new layout, > preferably only for my own account? See 'man xmodmap', the examples near the end, things like: xmodmap -e "keycode 240 = a A space Return" Put the required xmodmap command in your .bashrc. Benno --

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

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

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

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?

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] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...

Jarry wrote: > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [ cut here ] > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: CPU:0 > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-gentoo-r1) > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: E

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Bogo Mipps wrote: > Have stuffed up and accidentally un-merged my coreutils: now > can't emerge either what was current (5.2.1-r7) or newer version > (5.3.0-r1) and needless to say have lost all coreutils tools > which doesn't help. Yours is a up-to-date system and you have busybox installed? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > here's the output of 'equery files coreutils': Hmm... equery behaves different when its output is redirected. Here's a list without any of the duplicates (symlinks) in /usr/bin. /bin/basename /bin/cat /bin/chgrp /bin/chmod /bin/chown /bin/chro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

Franta wrote: > I've reduced the troubles I have to udev right now. > Everything works fine if I start the system, create the devices > manually and work as usual. Why not set RC_DEVICES to "static" in /etc/conf.d/rc then and be done with it? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Maarten wrote: > > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > /bin/ln > ^^^ > > Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem. How do you > make the symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the > first place ? busybox ln -s busybox /bin/ln Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Bogo Mipps wrote: > Thanks guys - will start with this one, in the hope that someone > out there will take pity. No no, don't take pity. This is too good a chance to see busybox in action. :) Please report back how you are getting along. Start with these: busybox ln -s busybox /bin/ln ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Bogo Mipps wrote: > Yes, it's up-to-date and busybox is installed.  Never had the > occasion to use it, but this could be the time. Yes! :) What's the fun in taking binaries from others when you have busybox aboard, and it is there exactly for this purpose. If you don't like trial and error, f

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Bogo Mipps wrote: > /bin/install -c 'cp' > '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install: > unable to open > /bin/install -c 'vdir' > '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/vdir' > install: unable to open Hrrm... No idea why it's doing that... On a secondary gentoo p

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > here too it keeps failing at different places all the time. This is a bug in busybox 1.00, it's fixed in busybox-1.1.0. On my primary partition I've emerged the newer version, copied it to the other partition, and did the 'ebuild install' again

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils

Bogo Mipps wrote: > /bin/install -c 'cp' > '/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp' install: > unable to open > `/usr/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r7/image//bin/cp/cp': No such > file or directory Ahrrr! We were _so_ close... All it would have taken to get around this was 'rm /bin/in

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

Adrian wrote: > I emerged libbonobo, and bonobo. Didn't help anything. You do use --oneshot when re-emerging something. It doesn't matter for now, but it keeps your dependencies from getting tangled up later on. > All prepared. Starting rebuild... > emerge --oneshot -p -v =gnome-base/control-

Re: [gentoo-user] console dispaly

Hogar The Horrible wrote: > Since I have inslalled gentoo I have a problem. My X works fine > but I have problems with consoles. [...] > > I have a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop Amilo pro v2000. I have > integrated GPU : VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Devic

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > In my /usr/portage there were files concerning gcc-4.02 (and > even gcc-4.1.beta*). > > But they were silently ignored. Of course. First emerge eix. Then run 'eix -e gcc'. You will see: ... *4.0.2-r3 *4.1.0_beta20060203 >From 'man eix' you will learn what t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Spellchecking Disabled?

Mick wrote: > For some reason when I reply or create a new message in Kmail the > dynamic spellchecking is disabled. Ctrl+N, Alt+O, A. (New Message, Options, Auto.Spell. -- it remembers the setting.) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System Clock Problems

Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I've tried both zeroing this file and removing it altogether. > Zeroing doesn't work and if I delete it, it never gets recreated. > I've even tried "touch"ing it but it remains empty. After > touching it, I chmod it to ntp:ntp but still remains empty. >From 'man ntpd': "

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.

James wrote: > hddtemp /dev/hda < for example> > /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C # hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 22 C This doesn't look right, as system temperature is shown as 29°C. At startup hddtemp reported 12 C, while room temperature is 17°C. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

Jorge Almeida wrote: > cc1: out of memory allocating 8579592 bytes after a total of > 7716864 bytes Swap not enabled? Also, emerge --info output would be helpful. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] K8M800 via video card support

Marco Calviani wrote: > the unichrome driver became open source, but however > googling around i've seen many people getting into trouble for > make it working Not many. It's the ones with troubles that are the loudest. :) Getting it to work used to be a bit complicated, as you have X and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail Spellchecking Disabled?

Michael Kintzios wrote: > > From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > (New Message, Options, Auto.Spell. -- it remembers the > > setting.) > > Thank you! I'll try it again when I get home. I guess this is > not available in the GUI? (bec

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

Jorge Almeida wrote: > Swap was enabled. > $ emerge info > [...] Looks fine. Have you tried emerging gcc again, a few times, and does it fail every time in the same spot with the same error? What error does kpdf give? Does it too fail every time at the same place? Have you tried closing mem

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles

Jorge Almeida wrote: > parser error : out of memory error > /bin/sh: line 1: 3831 Segmentation fault Doesn't look good. :( > No memory-hungry apps are open, since I'm working through ssh > (and there are no other human users). Is this box always on? Have you tried rebooting?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.

Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > M/B Temp:+43°C (high = +17°C, hyst =+0°C) sensor = thermistor > CPU Temp: +37.5°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor > temp3: +66.0°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C) sensor = thermistor > ALARM > > What the heck is that temp3 th

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors laptop issues

James wrote: > modprobe i2c-dev What modules did this actually load? (Use -v. Or do lsmod now.) > 'i2cdetect -l' returns: > i2c-0 unknown SiS96x SMBus adapter at 0x8100 Algorithm unavailable > > but building a 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 kernel, in the menu I see: > SiS 96x

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