Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/4/30, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: > > > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 > > > > I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread > > in an English mailing list. > > I ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

2006-04-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > 5) In the chroot'ed environment I can see the kernel file at > /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 How did you copy sda1 to sda9? Probably on sda1 there was a symlink: boot -> /, which you didn't preserve during copying. Either create this symlink, or remove "/boot" from "kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-05-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Iain Buchanan wrote: > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the > DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart > kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. Have a look at $ dmesg | egrep "agp|drm" an

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE crashing on startup

2006-05-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ian Kabeary wrote: > Im thinking that KDE is crashing.. Is there a log for KDE > somewhere? $ less ~/.xsession-errors Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leopold Gouverneur wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:41:01PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > You need to put it in /etc/portage/package.provided. > > Puting it in /etc/portage does not work for me. It needs to go in /etc/portage/profile/; see 'man portage': /etc/portage/profile/

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leigh Stewart wrote: > does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and > swap partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside > a single primary partition? That should work. You could even make all three partitions logical ones, Linux has no problem with that. You di

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with lm_sensors.

2006-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jeff wrote: > It would seem that my setup is ready for lm_sensors, but then > when I run sensors after sensors-detect, What did sensors-detect say? Paste the stuff that comes after "Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done." Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

2006-05-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mattias Merilai wrote: > I have tried both on different (but only) gentoo kernels and > still they complain about not finding it. That will happen when when your /boot is on a separate partition: it is not mounted (yet) when the kernel is looking for the System.map. > 1. Is this a vanilla or gen

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

2006-05-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and > thunderbird differing on the flag "mozcalendar". It seemed like > something I would like, however, so I tried putting the flag into > /etc/portage/package.keywords: > > mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird mozcalendar > ww

[gentoo-user] bash-3.* ignores the first press of Shift+M

2006-05-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi all, This is absurd, but when in bash-3.1_p17 I press Shift+M, the "M" only appears the moment I press another key. This happens both in Konsole and on a VT. And also in xterm and rxvt. It happens also in bash-3.1_p14 and bash-3.0-r14. And sash-3.7-r1. But _not_ in bash-2.05b-r11, nor

Re: [gentoo-user] bash-3.* ignores the first press of Shift+M [SOLVED]

2006-05-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jonathan Chocron wrote: > Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 22:44, Benno Schulenberg a écrit : > > This is absurd, but when in bash-3.1_p17 I press Shift+M, the > > "M" only appears the moment I press another key. This happens > > both in Konsole and on a VT. And also in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Kirkwood wrote: > You could emerge smartmontools, and see if its temperature > readings agree with hddtemp (they should). Here both smartmontools and hddtemp report a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. But KSensors gives a system temperature of 33. Sticking in a normal thermometre through

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dave Jones wrote: > smartmonctl -a /dev/hdb gives the results below, which looks bad > to me. I'd guess that my Hitachi second HD is heading for the > great /dev/null. > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000Old_age > Always - 13573 Drive has been ruuning for 13573 hour

Re: Reliability of smart values (was: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures)

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Dave Jones wrote: > >> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 > >> Old_age Always - 13573 > > > > Drive has been ruuning for 13573 hours total. > > How much can this data be tr

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing > things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by > hand. Not even 'eclean-dist --destructive' is enough? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dosbox eating up resources

2006-06-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've noticed, dosbox eats up very much resources, In your .dosboxrc set 'cycles' to a lower value. > so for example > takes very very long What does? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: >unmerge A >merge B >merge A When A is blocking B, the normal thing to do is to just unmerge A, and then execute again the command that reported the blockage. This is normally something like 'emerge -vaDu world'. If the package you unmerged is still needed, i

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > These examples are admittedly rather comtrived. My google search > result (posted a few msgs ago) gave the three step sequence you > quoted above. When googling for advice, you may want to include "site:gentoo.org" in your terms, and maybe even "handbook". Searching for '

Re: [gentoo-user] Arts compile failure

2006-06-05 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Tony Davison wrote: > Any ideas? Are you out of your mind? A mail of 622 kB !? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT kde] Emacs bindings in locator box

2006-06-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > C-a goto to start of line > C-k delete line. > > The C-k part no longer works. That's Ctrl+L. Under Settings > Configure Shortcuts add Ctrl+K as an alternate to Clear Location Bar. > C-a still moves cursor to > beginning of line but it also highlights the address

Re: [gentoo-user] hijacking and unhijacking

2006-06-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jason A. Booth wrote: > On Saturday 10 June 2006 23:15, gentuxx wrote: > > First of all, you should start a new thread when you have a new > > question. > > ctrl-alt-f(123456) dono worky so good -- doesn't qualify? Changing the subject line doesn't mean you started a new thread. You replied to

Re: [gentoo-user] gamin

2006-06-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Arnau Bria wrote: > This morning I noticed that gam_server was eating 80 90% of > cpu... I'm trying to find who installed gamin in my system, If you look at the ebuild ('less /usr/portage/app-admin/gamin/gamin-0.1.7.ebuild'), you'll see that gamin provides the virtual fam. $ equery depends fa

Re: [gentoo-user] gamin

2006-06-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Arnau Bria wrote: > That's it! kdelibs! I can't figure why equery does not show it... It appears to have been fixed in gentoolkit-0.2.2. After a sync and an upgrade: $ equery depends fam [ Searching for packages depending on fam... ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.12.2 kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: > I did an "emerge --sync" on my main machine, followed by > "emerge --ask --deep --update --world --fetchonly". It spent > several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies", with the > "spinner" very slowly moving. Eventually it ran. Subsequent > calls to emerge ran at th

Re: [gentoo-user] broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Norman Rieß wrote: > broken /usr/kde/3.4/lib/kde3/kfileaudiopreview.la (requires > /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libqtmcop.la) You have upgraded to KDE-3.5.* ? Then 'rm -r /usr/kde/3.4'. > broken /usr/lib/avifile-0.7/ac3pass.la (requires > /usr/lib/libaviplayavformat.la) The avi stuff is obsolete. Remo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamin

2006-06-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Caster wrote: [and snipped an attribution] > > Equery should detect that gamin provides a virtual, and then > > check for the dependents of that. Are you any good at Python? > > :) > > You don't need. [...] Seems there is a bug... but kinda dead - > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101420

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking ...

2006-06-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) wrote: > emerge --unmerge pam-login && emerge --update shadow > emerge --unmerge utempter && emerge --update libutempter No need to use --update there, --update is the default. Use --oneshot instead, so shadow and libutempter don't end up in your world file. If they alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking ...

2006-06-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:49 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > > emerge --unmerge pam-login && emerge --update shadow > > > > No need to use --update there, --update is the default. > > No it's not. emerge behaves differently when

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Telling people never to use --deep is as misleading as telling > them always to use it. The only correct advice is to help people > decide for themselves when to use it and when not. Hmm. When to use it then, and when not? Either the user follows gentoo-announce and runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx <=Normal?

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > root # modprobe nvidia > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia > (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/video/nvidia.ko): Invalid module > format You've maybe used a different compiler version for the kernel than for the nvidia stuff? If not that, then check the dates, to see whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:12:11 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > And glsa-check is a bit unwieldy: 'glsa-check -ln 2>/dev/null | > > grep '\[N\]' | cut -d\ -f1 | xargs -n1 glsa-check -d'. > > What's wrong with 'glsa-chec

Re: [gentoo-user] Using --deep [Was: Slow redraw of windows following -uD --world]

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:00:18 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > It should have an option to directly list > > these numbers in full -- at least the Synopsis to Unaffected > > part. (Anyone good enough at sed or awk to produce such an > > extract

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx <=Normal?

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apparently also the mouse and keyboard drivers need to be > > downgraded to match the xserve > > What package contains those drivers? No idea, I'm still on monolithic. Look in the /var/

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage/color.map for a light background

2006-06-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi all, Gentoo Weekly News mentioned that among the new features of Portage-2.1 there was Colour remappings: "you can now remap the colours that Portage will use in its output." But the man page says nothing about how to do this, nor what colour names it knows about. The gentoo-wiki has not

Re: [gentoo-user] (kcminit failing, arts hanging)

2006-06-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Christian Panten wrote: > after some update (I can't recognize with I made) Run 'genlop -u --list --date 2 days ago' to see what you updated in the last two days, or whenever you started noticing the problems. Anything alsa-like in there? > 1. Starting kde I get an error that kcminit failed.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hans Schou wrote: > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.1" > have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete > your request: > - x11-apps/setxkbmap-1.0.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in th

Re: [gentoo-user] "Calculating world dependencies" taking forever first time

2006-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Walter Dnes wrote: > >> several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies", > > > > You upgraded portage. The einfos said to run 'emerge > > --metadata' first thing. > > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Hence you may run into this problem for a lot of packages that > belong to modular X as they are upgraded to newer versions that > your /etc/portage/package.keywords doesn't unmask. Hmm... Does package.keywords allow to keyword specific versions of a package? Not her

Re: [gentoo-user] (kcminit failing, arts hanging)

2006-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Christian Panten wrote: > kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: > /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/kcm_kdnssd.so: undefined symbol: > init_kdnssd $ equery belongs kcm_kdnssd.so [ Searching for file(s) kcm_kdnssd.so in *... ] kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.3-r1 (/usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/kcm_kdnssd.so) Re-emerge kcont

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 / setxkbmap masked

2006-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 22:47, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Hmm... Does package.keywords allow to keyword specific > > versions of a package? Darn. It does when using "=". I've always thought it didn't. > Whether it is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependencies

2006-06-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 23 June 2006 18:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > AIUI equery works with global USE > > flags, so if emerge --info still shows eds, equery will think > > OOo depends on it, no matter what you have in /etc/portage. > > I am pretty sure that it uses /var/db/pkg/${cate

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE. It went okay > except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone. I had hoped > that they would be preserved like most configuration files. > > I have a recent backup. Is there any way to recover them from > there? I don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

2006-06-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: drive not ready for command > Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: ATAPI reset complete > Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy } > Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost ide: failed opcode was: unknown > Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost hdc: AT

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I start kalarm, it does not show any items. If I add an > item, it shows, but nothing else. Have you tried refreshing alarms (under Actions)? Have tried killing all kalarm* processes and then restarting kalarm? > However, I continue to get on-screen alerts accordin

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things to salvage, and then delete it all. And look through ~/.kde for files with r

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: >I seem to have file system problems on my external > 1394 hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move > to 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. Hopefully just bad luck (a failing drive, or a power hickup), but a kernel bug can't be ru

Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

2006-06-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > Is it the case that the journal is only used to repair the disk > when fsck is run? No, it's more like either/or. With an unjournaled file system, it is fsck that checks everything and repairs inconsistencies. With a journaled file system, the journal is used to complete t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

2006-06-26 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > 2) I was successfully able to burn a data CD in KDE 3.5 with k3b Writing normally occurs at a lower speed than reading. When mine was dying, reading a CD went fine when running at low speed, but the data rate dropped as soon as it started to gear up. > 3) I was successf

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: > When trying to upgrade via emerge from gcc-3.4.5 to 3.4.6-r1 I > get the following errors... Please post the output of 'emerge --info' and 'gcc-config -l' when getting stuck on build errors. > checking size of long double... configure: error: cannot compute > sizeof (long d

Re: [gentoo-user] package masking question

2006-06-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roy Wright wrote: > Where I find myself failing > with the package.mask approach is remembering some time in the > future to go back and remove these temporary masks. If you keep the temporary masks at the top of package.mask, you could make a wrapper for emerge that after every --sync prints say

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/28/06, Darren Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GCC_SPECS= > > Hmm, suspicious. Run 'gcc-config 1', Darren, and then check GCC_SPECS again. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: > # gcc-config 1 > > * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 > ... [ ok ] > # env | grep 'GCC_SPECS=' > > ...nothing. Log back in first. Environment is set when bash starts. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: > Back in May I thought I was streamlining my make.conf file by > changing from this... > > CFLAGS="-mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe" > CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" > > to this... > > CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe" Well, that's clear then: remove the -mtune=k8. Before M

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

2006-06-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Darren Grant wrote: > I still however cannot upgrade to the latest gcc > and glibc components. They still fail with the same familiar > error I had before. So nothing was repaired. Then try the next thing: remove nptlonly from the USE flags. And do as Richard advised, correct the link: ln -snf

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils-2.16.1-patches-1.10.tar.bz2 ?

2006-06-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > and ... xorg-x11 modular is now stable (wasn't this morning), and > blocked by xorg-x11-6.. so I decide to switch to modular: > > quickpkg xorg-x11 > > emerge -C xorg-x11, > > [...] > > !!! Digest verification failed: [...] > > And my system is without X now But y

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with locale - ANSI_X3.4-1968

2006-07-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 03:20, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > I still wonder how I managed to forget the dash in UTF-8 > > considering how familiar I am with that particular locale. > > I think it didn't matter with the old system that was > using /etc/locales.build.

Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout

2006-07-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Probably I found the problem: > # setxkbmap -layout de -option "compose:menu,lv3:ralt_switch" > Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Googling for that line shows these threads: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2006-June/003552.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cyg

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 22:20, lunedì 3 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-05/msg00041.html > > suggests that you may have a mistaken symlink > > somewhere as a result of downgrading. If all else fails, start looking fo

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 00:20, martedì 4 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: > > > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > > > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > > > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ImageMagick Strange Behaviour

2006-07-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > When I right-clicked on the graphic that I wanted to edit and > chose "open with" and display, ImageMagick didn't launch, but the > configuration screen for KRandRTray Hmm... it does that here too. Typing, instead of 'display', things like 'background', 'desktop' or 'mous

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > (**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: "pc105" > (**) Option "XkbLayout" "de" > (**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: "de" Okay. Just in case, what say 'grep "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log' and 'grep "^(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log'. And better not snip things that may

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: > For example: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-~x86 emerge -Dvp world > > will show you every ~x86 package you have installed, and what the > stable version is. Doing that shows nothing for me. But renaming the package.keywords file shows about a hundred lines of downgrades (mostly KDE)

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Peter Ruskin wrote: > keycode 35 = bracketright braceright rightarrow emdash Ah, emdash! Thanks — now I can finally type it directly. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on keywording java and xorg

2006-07-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/7/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Fish wrote: > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=-~x86 emerge -Dvp world > > > > Doing that shows nothing for me. But renaming the > > package.keywords file shows about a hundred l

Re: [gentoo-user] vim backspace key problem

2006-07-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Shaochun Wang wrote: > Every time I use vim -u myvimrcfile foo.txt, > I get weird problem as following: > > 1. When in insert mode, I can't use backspace key to > delete the first character of the last line > and any character of the other lines. What's in your myvimrcfile? You will want "set bs=

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Cláudio Henrique wrote: > I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line > in xorg.conf telling it to use "us_intl" as my kbd layout, but it > seems to be ignoring it. > as a consequence, I have to execute "setxkbmap us_intl" every > time I enter Gnome. I also tried adding it to ~/

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de So you had a "de" map, and in the right place. So that wasn't the problem. > > # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb > > ? It's a command, to be executed as root (that's what the "#" means), it links the old place of keyboard maps to

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 22:58, lunedì 10 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: > > > > # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb/ X11/xkb That's not what i wrote, but this: # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb > I didn't understand from where it should be:

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I believe he would prefer to know the difference > > * The file as in the previous emerge of this package > > * The file as in the current emerge of this package > > Then he would decide what to do with these changes. Precisely. When Portage makes a ._cfg_* file, i

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > > # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb > > > > It worked? What did it solve? > > It solved the keyboard layout, That symlink shouldn't be necessary, as far as I know. That you need it shows something is wrong with the way you've installed modular Xorg. > bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Steve Brenneis wrote: > I had problems with Xorg 6.8.2 and a duplicate symbol in > libbitmap.a. This was a well-known problem and the two most > popular fixes seemed to be to switch gcc to the non-hardened > version or to rebuild Xorg with the "static" use flag. I chose > the latter and all was wel

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 22:32, mercoledì 12 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha > scritto: > > That symlink shouldn't be necessary, as far as I know. That > > you need it shows something is wrong with the way you've > > installed modular Xorg. > > I th

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Steve Brenneis wrote: > I am using -hardened and -pie right now. Minus pie? That's no USE flag. > System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M > CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" Why 386 when your processor is 686? (You can't change this now, mind you; it would need a complete reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Before doing something wrong

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > short question: Is > > emerge --clean > > the right way to remove unused stuff from my system You mean 'emerge --depclean --pretend'? Heed the warning and do an 'emerge -uND world' first. And if you're not feeling brave, quickpkg the stuff that's goin

Re: [gentoo-user] Update xorg-x11

2006-07-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Juliano Morais Barbosa wrote: > >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r2 to / > >>> > >>> Creating Manifest for /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa Remove "digest" and "assume-digests" from your FEATURES. Those are meant for developers. You are undoing emerge's security check. And please don't

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

2006-07-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Someone wrote: > After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get > the following error from startx: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Post your xorg.conf. And an 'ls -l /usr/share/fonts/'. Also see http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages . Benno --

Re: [gentoo-user] What is this: xxx

2006-07-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > there are several mails replied only with a > > link to http://en.fon.com/ ??? > > > > SPAM??? > > Well it's a little spammy in that it doesn't really address the > original post So it is pure spam. Please ban wiese

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem to decode and play mp3

2006-07-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Seba wrote: > I have a problem to play or decode only mp3 (no problem with ogg > or wave), I play mp3 with noatun or amarok and decode it with > k3b, the result is noise. Hello Seba, Please stop sending the same mail over and over again. You will not see this mail appear in your inbox, because

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem to decode and play mp3

2006-07-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Seba wrote: > System uname: 2.6.17.4 ppc 7447A, altivec supported > [...] > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" If you are inexperienced, you should probably not yet be using ~ppc in your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. :) But removing it now would just create a lot of unneeded downgrading, so leave it for now. >

Re: [gentoo-user] chkrootkit LKM trojan ?

2006-07-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dave S wrote: > On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:36, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > "no, if you chroot, the binaries from the chroot are used. > > The problem is if I do not chroot chkrootkit will scan the > knoppix CD - tried it :). It needs to access the live proc etc on > a running system. Use -r.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap with unnamed keycode

2006-07-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bertram Scharpf wrote: > I would like to map the the character 0x017f, the long s > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s)i, to my X keyboard. > > I already succeed with [...] > entering "u017f" in Vim and in GVim. Just for info: in nano one could do "00017f". > Now, I say > > $ xmodmap -e 'keyc

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap with unnamed keycode [solved]

2006-07-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. Jul 2006, 23:10:31 +0200 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > > Try this instead: > > > > $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 39 = s S 0x100017f ssharp 0x100017f ssharp' By the way: I found this by grepping for "long s" in /us

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 22:28, giovedì 13 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: > > Okay. But what does 'equery belongs xdm' say? You really seem > > to have trouble reading and following instructions. > > Sorry, I mixed all things, sometime I already trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leonardo wrote: > I knew Kmenuedit already, but I have way too many apps to loose > time reorganizing the menu going after them one by one. So many apps!? But you do this only once, you never reinstall KDE or Gentoo, the customized menus stay with you forever. But good apps _do_ add themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems

2006-07-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jason Weisberger wrote: > Odd problem it seems as if almost completely at random, my > boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems.. for no > reason. It will freeze there until you restart the computer. If > I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it > (whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > I had slightly changed the "inspiron" xkb mapping so that they > generated the right events (XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, > XF86AudioPrev, XF86AudioNext). Then, I defined a few keyboard > shortcuts in the KDE control center to trigger come actions, Please explain how you did t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > Then, in the control center, select the function for which you > want to assign a shortcut, Yes, but as I said: there are no multimedia-related actions like Play or Stop or Mute there, just windowing, editing and navigating stuff. Do I need to emerge a certain KDE component

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > as I said: there are no multimedia-related actions > > like Play or Stop or Mute there, [...] > > As far as I understand, the XF86* are key codes or events, > defined and generated by the X server, in this case xorg-x11, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-23 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > There are just no actions like "Play", "Volume Down" or "Mute" > > that I could assign XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioLowerVolume or > > XF86AudioMute to. > > Ok, I get it, sorry. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap with unnamed keycode [solved]

2006-07-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bertram Scharpf wrote: > The Irish do map a long s and the Germans don't. This is > speaking volumes. Maybe I should propose to at least > distribute an XkbVariant "longs" and another one > "longs_nodeadkeys". Or just propose a patch that adds one line to the basic layout in .../symbols/de and ..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Meanwhile I've figured out > > how to create actions such as "Mute" and "Volume Up" and assign > > them shortcuts. > > I didn't have to do anything to get those working, except make >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail

2006-07-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > The problem is not important enough to justify spending so much of > your and my time on it. It was worth my time: I now have working volume keys. :) I had never bothered to find out how to make them work, as I seldom play music. This was a nice occasion. I still think th

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2006-07-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Michael George wrote: > LINGUAS="-af% -ar% -be_BY% -bg% -bn% -bs% -ca% -cs% -cy% -da% > -de% -el% -en% -en_GB% -en_US% -en_ZA% -es% -et% -fa% -fi% -fr% > -gu_IN% -he% -hi_IN% -hr% -hu% -it% -ja% -km% -ko% -lt% -mk% -nb% > -nl% -nn% -nr% -ns% -pa_IN% -pl% -pt% -pt_BR% -ru% -rw% -sh_YU% > -sk% -sl%

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

2006-08-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dan Johansson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:59, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 1. August 2006 13:36 schrieb Dan Johansson: > > > Some weeks ago I updated my Desktop to 3.5.2 and after that > > > the XF86AudioRaiseVolume button on my Logitech keyboard does > > > [not] increase t

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

2006-08-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dan Johansson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:50, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > > > You mean you upgraded from KDE 3.5.2 to 3.5.3? > > Did you around the same time upgrade to modular Xorg (7.0)? > > Yes, from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3, and it was before the Xorg 7.

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

2006-08-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Remy Blank wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > > xkb_symbols { > > include "pc(pc105)+ch(de_nodeadkeys)+inet(logicdp)" }; > > xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+ch(fr)+inet(inspiron)" > }; Maybe there's some mistake in the ch file? > > # grep EE Xorg.0.log > > (EE) Error l

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

2006-08-06 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Colleen Beamer wrote: > One thing I'm referring to is an online game that I play - > Bookworm, a game from popcap.com. When the "scrabble type" tiles > drop, they make a noise. This game requires Java to be installed > and works fine. Up until I did the upgrade to Firefox, I had > sound in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Error updateing ffmpeg

2006-08-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Paul Stear wrote: > i386/snowdsp_mmx.c: In function > 'ff_snow_vertical_compose97i_sse2': i386/snowdsp_mmx.c:461: > error: PIC register '%ebx' clobbered in 'asm' i386/snowdsp_mmx.c: > In function 'ff_snow_vertical_compose97i_mmx': > i386/snowdsp_mmx.c:568: error: PIC register '%ebx' clobbered in >

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

2006-08-09 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stroller wrote: > However my question is this: don't I need pam-login anymore? No, its function is part of shadow again. > On this particular system /etc/pam.d/imap calls pam_winbind.so to > authenticate off a Windows domain. Will this still work? Yes, as long as pam itself is still installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mod4 mapped to wrong keycode

2006-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robert Cernansky wrote: > setxkbmap -layout us -symbols pc+us+altwin -variant super_win > > Does anybody know how to activate this "super_win" setting? setxkbmap -option altwin:super_win Things that have been set correctly in xorg.conf don't need to be given again in the setxkbmap command. Yo

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