Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 Same here. > - probably about the worst va

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition > 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't > worry about it. I don't know... Would that be when there’s a + sign behind the end sector? I believe t

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition > > 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't > > worry about it. I don't know... Well since only the st

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > I have reset sdb7 to use boundaries divisible by 64. > Old rangebegin%64 size%64 New rangebegin%64 > size%64 813113973-976703804 0.82810.125813113984-976703935 0 >0 > > An

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Christian Apeltauer: > Hello list, > when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs > kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not > use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I will not > install it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new > version? > This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they > go to different slots. > Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

2010-02-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Well I only had some issues with packages that didn't have a 4.4 version, > > like soliduiserver. So I guessed they don't need that anymore and a > > removed it. Turned out it was a hard block because I had it in world. > > so? set -v

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: > Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have > set my middle mouse button to "Start window tab drag" but when I try it > nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option > "Move window to group"

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the > worst value it could

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the > > weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. > > Beca

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: > No need for either, just look up the drive on Samsung's homepage [*]. It's > 512 bytes/sector, you should be fine. Gee thanks. Though that still keeps me baffled about my results, I can start looking for other reasons for it. :) Consider the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: > So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. > I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use > Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. > > Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not rela

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

2010-02-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dan Johansson: > After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok > will not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message "Too many > errors encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped." I have tried to > delete ~/.xine as s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk > > space. > > the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things > are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I know how > to find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just > silly. Well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after > some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can > use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but > when i tried to change the lcd br

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and > experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's > advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things > that you say "I wish I set mine up th

[gentoo-user] emerge uclibc fails after upgrade of linux-headers

2010-03-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there I am trying to build a minimal system for my 128MB USB stick, based on uclibc. I’m in the process of rebuilding system after upgrading gcc from 4.1 to 4.3. During the upgrade, linux-headers was updated from 2.6.23-r3 to 2.6.30-r1. After such an update, the c library needs to be rebuilt a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`

2010-03-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:01:37 +, Stroller wrote: > > I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems, > > and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me > > what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`

2010-03-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:13:54 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > % qfile post_sync > > > app-portage/portage-utils (/etc/portage/bin/post_sync) > > > > My qfile doesn’t find it, neither with nor without full p

Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb dhk: > I'm not looking to make major changes to the existing terminal run > program. You see, I'm dealing with the corporate mentality. They want > to add features that are just not that feasible in a procedural > language. I also have to deal with their thousan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: > I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else. I > send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) I have even seen mails that were multiparted plain-text, i.e. text, image attachment, text, image-att

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a > receipt). > > I run something like: > > mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb walt: > On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too > > forgiving and fuzzy! > > By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign > speeches should be written in C. We

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag 19 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 > > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially > > support srt subs. > > It worked for me: > > mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb CJoeB: > Hi, > > I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used > the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the > iwl3945 driver. > [...] > Tonight I, again, following the wiki, tried building the iwl3945 drive

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.6 cannot open folder from the d/l dialog box

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 23. März 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4, ff 3.6. after i finished d/l a > file i want to open the folder where the file is saved. but when i do > so, firefox says it cannot find an application to open that link. i am > not trying to open/launch it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm > >> hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be > >> sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to > >>

[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My goal is to have a German layout with dead keys. In the process I've even gotten the system to react to the menu key again. But apart from t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: > I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout > instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution > was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-) You're not Dale under cover, are

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 26. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. > GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing > skills or lack thereof. LOL > [...] > This reminds me of the cereal isle in a grocery store. We stand there > t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: > I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout > instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution > was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-) I found the solution (at least f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? >>> I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. >> If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account >> just for on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem, OT: Blender

2010-04-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > thanks for all the input to all who have answered ! :) > > I will try to characterize ("characterise" ?) what I plan to do with > my TByte disk. Characterise if you’re in British domains, characterize if you are in the US. > Last thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno > domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at > shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the > rigmarole of setting

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan: > Hi, > > A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard > drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can > replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. > > Since I go to weird loc

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: > > > However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest > > > increasing font and icon sizes. > > > > I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. > > I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), s

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 schrieb Mick: > On Friday 30 April 2010 18:49:40 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Mick wrote: > > > I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size > > > > > > screen (15.6"). The characters are tiny and anything else but native

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010 schrieb Colleen Beamer: > On 5/3/10, Remy Blank wrote: > >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? > > > > I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, > > as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend

2010-05-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 schrieb András Csányi: > On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, > > when I close my laptop lid. > > > > When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t > device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b > does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist > (/dev/sr[01]). > > My userid are assigned the gro

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010 schrieb Walter Dnes: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. [...] > Anyhow, I have 8 gigs of ram on the sytem (will obviously be 64-bit > Gentoo) and I want to know how much swap I need. The general rule of > thumb is twice the ram. In this case, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Typing that long password into sudo every time I ran a command was a > hassle I’ve never used sudo, and never really liked the idea of it. In fact I’m always amused and slightly annoyed by the sheer amount of sudo one can find in your typical

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi: > > Hi guys, > > > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try > > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and > > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my en

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Hung Dang: > Hi all, > Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 is hang when I try to sent an email using IMAP > protocol even though it works fine before. However, everything is OK > when I start Thunderbird with command "thunderbird -safe-mode" from > console. > > Any idea?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 01:34:43 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > Hi guys, > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and > was quite pleased with it. However, I

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2009 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from > another machine (BINSERVER), > emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world > doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER > but not upt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2009 schrieb Philip Webb: > >> Okular 4.3.1 -- usable, but no noticeable improvement on Kpdf 3.5.10 . > > > > that is a joke, right? > > No, it's very serious: KDE 4 is jazzed up visually & dumbed down in > options. I concur. The only (and still vividly living) hope i

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis. > Since two days the shutdown process of the systems > hangs around "Bringing down net.lo". > Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the > "replaying transactions" (resierfs). >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James: > When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom > of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions > that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde >

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb Grant: > Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for > some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to > access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone > know why this might be happening? If you haven’t disab

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: > Grant schrieb: > > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds > on the homepage? I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. Google doesn’

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.

2009-09-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > Hi, > > I mentioned this a while back in another thread. Now it is even worse. > When I tell Kopete to make me "online" with Yahoo, I get a pop-up that > says I am using a old version of Yahoo messenger. If I close the > message box, it throws me of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.

2009-09-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I mentioned this a while back in another thread. Now it is even worse. > >> When I tell Kopete to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Different desktop wallpapers in KDE4?

2009-09-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > I think I saw a statement on this list that it's possible to set a > different wallpaper on each desktop in kde-4.3.1, but now I can't find it, > and I can't see how to do it either. > > Is it really possible to do this? You

Re: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...

2009-10-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Er, what the heck is this one: > > emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB > [ebuild N] x

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Here's a little update. Yahoo won't even let me sign in anymore. It > just sits there. Here too. So either switch to an alternative, to Kopete:4 or let them suckers be. I don't bother, for my main network is still ICQ. Quoting Jonathan Callen, KDE4

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> Here's a little update. Yahoo won't even let me sign in anymore. It > >> just sits there. > > > > Here too. So either

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> I have KDE4 on here. I just ain't warmed up to it yet. It just isn't . > >> . . . me. The web thing works tho. :-D > > > > Then why don't you use its Kopete? Granted, there are still bits and > > pieces missing from the good'ole KDE3, but it also

Re: [gentoo-user] Large update blocked

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > I may put this off until Xmas break (I cannot afford to wedge this system > right now), but I'm worried by the results of an emerge --pretend: > > It looks like 20 packages or so want eselect-1.2.3, but it's blocked by > eselect-news which is r

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: > What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device itself, nor with a partition

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp user, local user, apache group

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb laurent: > Hi, > > Now I've setup vsftpd with local user. > For exemple I log with the user laurent, I create a folder via ftp. > > This folder is own by laurent, so it's not exessible via apache. > How could I make that, like put laurent in a apache group? My s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > I'll give that a try. I tend to restore a saved session anyway. u, > I couldn't find the option to edit the menu like in KDE 3. It used to > be in Applications then Settings. The updating tool is there but not > the editing one. Right-click on t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mms protocol ???

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I want to download a file with an url like this: > > mms:/// > > Directly cliking the link/url in firefox does not work. > > Is there any tool, with which I cann access that file? mmsclient -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

2009-10-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Hi all, > > just wanted to know wether anbody has encountered this: > > Nearly all KDE password dialogs (except screensaver and kdm) have > stopped working. Neither kwallet nor kmail/kontact or kopete password > dialogs work. I can enter login

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > > Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: > > > > $ equery b q > > [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] > > app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) > > sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) > > $ > > Hmmm, two apparentl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and desktop links not working

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Hi, > > I have KDE 4 installed as well and I think this is causing the problem > but hope there is a fix for this little boo boo. I have links to > locations on my desktop so that I can click on them to get to places > directly. I have one for camer

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

2009-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. > > Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u -- Gruß | Gree

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 upgrading

2009-10-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > Since I try to keep the system with the same packages installed, as to > > not cause me to go crazy. Most are using SETS and the /etc/portage > > files are a mess and all different. > > > > > > Simplification and consolidation on kde 4 that

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.31 + nvidia

2009-11-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 1. November 2009 schrieb Kyle Adams: [top quote corrected] > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, which seems solved: > > Nvidia-drivers 180.60 won't compile with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31-r4 . > > The problem is fixed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Font recommendations for netbook?

2009-11-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 schrieb Walter Dnes: > Fluxbox is blowing up on my new machine because it can't find any > fixed fonts. I just realized that merely building xorg-server doesn't > download any fonts. Looking at /usr/portage/media-fonts I see a whole > bunch of options. Any experi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

2009-11-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am 12.11.2009 08:36, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check networks, IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist. This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent? I use KNemo for such things. It displa

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman and eix-sync

2009-11-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am 12.11.2009 12:47, schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: While I am here, I plan to get rid of all the layman stuff when KDE 4 is ready enough for me to use. Do I just run layman -d all and unmerge layman? Does that get the job done? Leave layman installed, it's useful. You also need it if y

[gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi guys n gals I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache is emptied, they have completely different content (of files tha

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other > > people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I > > save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache > > is emptied,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > When you plug-in your device, what does > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? 120 hw_sector_size says 512 I did another "test": I opened the syslog in continuous output (tail -f) and watched it while copying a file of 350 MB. Coin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, > > presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except > > I don't use the latter as I h

Re: [gentoo-user] dolphin cannot display chinese

2009-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my X it self works well with chinese. but the dolphin does not work > well with chinese. if any file contains chinese (or any non-ascii) > characters, it simply will not be displayed in the list. how can i fix > this? Can you see the file el

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 schrieb Stroller: > On 8 Jan 2010, at 04:44, James Ausmus wrote: > > ... > > This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right > > now, but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the > > future easily, and get the updates easily? > > +1 >

[gentoo-user] Scheduled wakeup from suspend to ram

2010-01-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi Group one of the very last things I still need Win***s for is to wake me up in the morning: I set up a task schedule to launch a playlist with Winamp. Do you know of any way to let my laptop go on again automatically after I put it to sleep in its RAM? In case it helps: I'm running 32 bit i

Re: [gentoo-user] Scheduled wakeup from suspend to ram

2010-01-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Sunday 10 January 2010 19:11:52 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hi Group > > > > one of the very last things I still need Win***s for is to wake me up in > > the morning: I set up a task schedule to launch a playl

Re: [gentoo-user] Scheduled wakeup from suspend to ram

2010-01-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: > Frank Steinmetzger schrieb am 10.01.2010 18:11: > > Hi Group > > > > one of the very last things I still need Win***s for is to wake me up in > > the morning: I set up a task schedule to launch a playlist with Win

[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 comm

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?

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb 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 "s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild - how to force it to run?

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > because of that KDE3/4 mess I have to keep kde-base/kdelibs:3.5 > (I still need kexi which is not available for koffice, yet.) > > But now, > emerge @preserved-rebuild > doesn't work anymore since it terminates after telling me > there a

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the > settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect > KMail too, or KMail will have a similar setting. I guess that’s because - similar to Outl**k using th

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Fernando Antunes: > Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are > difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version. In that the OSS version does not support USB at all. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "Do not ha

Re: [gentoo-user] transkode is gone

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Hi there! > > media-sound/transkode [*] was a nice KDE3 application for converting > various audio formats into others. It's gone now, and no, it's not in the > kde-sunset overlay. I cannot even find any information on why it was > removed. > Bui

Re: [gentoo-user] kcontrol empty

2010-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Hi there! > > I'm using KDE4, but there are still some kde3.5 apps. I noticed that > kmymoney2 does not use the comma as decimal point like we do this in > Germany. I was about to file a bug report, but now I think it is correct, > because I did

[gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there, a while ago, I emerged virtual/jdk, and prior to it sun-jdk in order to direct manually what the virtual shall pull in. But now, virtual/jdk wants to install dev-java/icedtea as well: ,--[ emerge -tpuvD world ] | Calculating dependencies... done! | [nomerge ] media-tv/tvbrows

Re: [gentoo-user] icedtea6-bin or sun-jdk?

2010-01-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:48:52AM -0800, Grant wrote: > > It looks like my installed icedtea6-bin and sun-jdk are both depended > > on by virtual/jdk-1.6.0. I think I can choose one or the other, > > right? Does icedtea6-bin work as well as sun-

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 03:32 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > a while ago, I emerged virtual/jdk, and prior to it sun-jdk > > in order to direct manually what the virtual shall pull in. > >

[gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi guys, until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart: > === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === > > > The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors > > and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error > > messages. > > === > > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try > > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. > > > > Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, > > starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first > > test login.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D > > layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole >

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