On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> > I have several boot cds. And none of them booted as slow as kubuntu 7.04.
>
> The boot cd is slow as a molasses hell, but the installed system boots
> quite fast -slower than my Gentoo, but not signifi
On Sonntag, 10. Juni 2007, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> rebus_rdk wrote:
> > I have recently updated portage, did an emerge -avuD system and world.
> > Everything was doing great until it hit kmail. First time i tried to
> > compile it it hogged the processor to max
> > and wasted all the RAM + swap
On Montag, 11. Juni 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote:
> HI,
>
> I have strange KDE(or X11?) artefacts on my desktop.
> The animation icon near cursor is drawing ugly, in some places I have bad
> painted corners. What is it ?
> This doesn't block my work, but maybe I've bad configured KDE/X :) ?
>
> I
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Sartorelli, Jason wrote:
> Thanks Ken,
> So what do other people do when they need to use ActiveX?
> Is there any work arounds etc?
>
> Hmmm, its interesting as before now (as I use server, desktop and laptop
> builds) I couldn't see what was stopping businesses using
On Sonntag, 17. Juni 2007, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> It seems the new version of skype depends on Qt4 while you propably have
> installed Qt3. One *can* install both versions, but it's a bit tricky to
> make Qt3-dependent packages (like KDE 3.x) compile correctly when both
> versions are present. I think
On Montag, 18. Juni 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop
> labelled sysreq. What is it?
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Hi everybody,
two emails I sent to this list in the last couple of days did not arrive in my
inbox - or on gmane. Is gentoo-user loosing mails again? Has anybody else
seen this problem?
Glück Auf
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On Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007, Mike Diehl wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm still having difficulty getting my new laptop to build kde. I can't
> believe how much trouble I've had. Usually, with Gentoo, things "just
> work."
>
> Anyway, the problem is with the glib emerge:
>
> Anyone have any ideas how to st
On Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> I was installing a boot splash when i got this message
>
> //
> o Creating initramfs image..
> mv: writing «/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1024x768»: There is no space
> left on the device.
> //
>
> I wa
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:37:16 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > oh, and ls -lah might be more helpfull.
> >
> > Along with df -T /boot
>
> tu
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Try using:
> > du -xa /boot | sort -rn
> > as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files. (du does
> > "lie" sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I would hazard the guess, that your boot is full because the journal uses
> > 32mb for itself.
> >
> > There is NO reason to use ANY journaling fs f
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I don't think that you need to investigate more. Just be carefull when
> > nuking the fs - you have to setup grub after that again. It might be
> > sm
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who wish
> kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice their
> objections now.
>
> I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer
> acc
On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I'm having problems with printing to pdf,
> > both with kprint system and cups-pdf.
>
> Why don't you use Open Office ? Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf.
> There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr
On Montag, 25. Juni 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I get warnings like these:
>
> Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ...
> reader kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>
> Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ...
> reader kernel: CPU0: Run
On Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> about '[gentoo-user] FEATURES="test" -- Should this work?':
> > I recently enabled the "test" feature on Portage
>
> I use paludis,. which does testing by default, and I
On Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I recently enabled the "test" feature on Portage and notice that a
> couple of packages routinely fail their test phases. Is this expected
> behavior? More specifically, should I file bug reports if I see such
> failures? These are unstable pac
On Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like:
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM
>
> etc.
>
> I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downl
On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, banym tuxaner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to rise the performance on an mcp55 chip.
>
> i became realy bad performance datas by testing the harddisks with
> bonnie++. i is not possible to have 36m/s on a sata2 controller and
> harddisks. someone who knows something about p
On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, banym tuxaner wrote:
> Now i arrived at 60mb/sec using ext2 as filesystem.
> That's better.
>
> ext3 has too much overhead ...
>
> the system is used to virtualise 4-5 machines with xen so i/o is an big
> problem.
>
or you are using the wrong mount options ;)
btw, th
On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, Dominik Zajac wrote:
> what for options for ext3 ??
man mount
these aren't even all.
and google for them.
I can't help you with that. I am using reiserfs and reiser4
(and ext2 for /boot).
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On Freitag, 29. Juni 2007, Xihong Yin wrote:
> Hi hwh,
>
> I've entered number 0 - 6, none of them works. Should I use 'boot'? or
> 'default' instead of numbers?
yes. but you should use something like 'single' to repair the system.
>
> I could not find the /etc directory now. Maybe I lost it after
On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question: I've never actually owned a
> device using a MicroSD card--until now. I have for myself a Motorola
> KRZR K1 phone, and I am thinking of buying a MicroSD card so I can
> transfer music/pictures b
On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:31:29AM +0200, Penguin Lover Hemmann, Volker
Armin squawked:
> > On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
> > why? Is the KRZR so much worse than a RAZR?
> >
> > With a RAZR you just connec
On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:31:29AM +0200, Penguin Lover Hemmann, Volker
Armin squawked:
> > why? Is the KRZR so much worse than a RAZR?
> >
> > With a RAZR you just connect the phone to the computer with the usb
> > cabl
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which
> unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8
> characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to
> change some of them ba
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host
> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should
> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.
yes. it is known als 'talk
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS
> > forced down our throats.
>
> Aaargh! :-@
>
> > To prevent that in the future,
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS
> > forced
> > down our throats.
>
> I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft
On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, Grant wrote:
> In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in
> which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the
> decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the
> remaining Gentoo users in a negative way.
no.
gentoo
On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote:
> > Hey Mark,
> >
> > Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
> > when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
> > have to find a new distro, where
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> Hi gentooers.
>
> I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system.
> When I emerge some package that requires QT 3 , the configure scripts
> ends with this error:
>
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (hea
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
>
> Hi gentooers.
>
> I have some trouble with the QTDIR variable of my system.
> When I emerge some package that requires
Please don't send html-mail.
when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too?
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On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> > when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too?
>
> elwood ~ # su - portage
> elwood ~ # whoami
> root
>
> elwood ~ # su - portage -c "export"
> e
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > I have been using KDE for a long long time.
> > > Suddenly it's not there any more.
> > > anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
> > > 118
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto:
> >>> when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too?
>
On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed
accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you
grep for it.
grep -R kde-3.5 /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/CONTENTS
and then re-emerge the package.
On Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007, sain yan wrote:
> Hi
> On my gentoo box, Useing grub and it work fine!
> But I`m NOT find the file menu.lst in /etc and /boot,Why???
>
>
> and I install another kernel , Then write the file "menu.lst" at
> /boot/grub/menu.lst,
> But Grub DON`T re
On Friday 29 September 2006 21:28, Ryan Sims wrote:
> I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the
> Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts
> (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t
On Saturday 30 September 2006 00:52, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID,
> > they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right?
>
> Well I don't own one of these things, but
On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:08, Terry Eck wrote:
> I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0.
> I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting
> from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of
> weeks and have determined that there
On Monday 02 October 2006 12:31, Stephen Reynolds wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am new to gentoo and I just finished a stage 1,2,3 installation, and I
> have followed the gentoo USB howto.
> When I plug-in a usb device no device coming up in /dev directory, yet
> dmesg tell me I have plugged in a mass storage
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 03:32, Grant wrote:
> > > The TV has a native resolution of 1366x768 as stated by the
> > > manufacturer. If I specify that resolution in xorg.conf, it says it's
> > > an invalid resolution and uses 1360x768 instead.
> >
> > This is common, at least for my 37" widescreen
On Thursday 05 October 2006 01:31, Jayson Smith wrote:
> 4.something. Am I missing something here?
gcc-config
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:57, Grant wrote:
> When I click on "RIP Title" in dvdrip, I get a permission denied error
> regarding Project.pm. All of the other options in the other tabs are
> grayed out and unmodifiable. If I try to run the program as root, it
> says it cannot open the display.
On Monday 09 October 2006 05:56, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> I don't remember the exact details but I noticed that
> any attempt to upgrade x11 revealed that everything
> under xorg-x11 was blocked. So I did emerge -C
> xorg-x11 then emerge xorg-x11. So far so good. I ran
> xorgconfig an
On Thursday 12 October 2006 20:13, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx,
> sse, sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of
> other programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the
> question is shoul
On Friday 13 October 2006 00:24, Neil Hodges wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been having issues with timeouts in Konqueror, particularly DNS
> timeouts. How can I change the values for these?
kcontrol (the control center) --> interne & network --> Connection preferences
?
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On Friday 13 October 2006 18:56, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> Interesting discussion here:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478783.html
>
> What does the group think?
>
> -Maxim
>
I am not 'the group' but I am using etc-update. It is all that I need. I tried
dispatch-conf once a
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:42, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1
> I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package.
> Xorg now appears to be horribly broken.
> The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command
> line.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:20, Selso DaSilva wrote:
>
> Third we put X, on the system and tweak it. Next we use a
> low memory but simple to use window manager.
> MC: I am sill not sure on which version of Xorg I want to
>use 6.9 or 7.1. The window managers I had in mind were
>black
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:08, Dave V wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but
> it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend
> a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the
> packages
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:27 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > a) it is dead. For years
> >
> > b) it depends on a dead toolkit with godknowswhat security problems
> >
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 07:51, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while doing a revdep-rebuild I got A LOT of messages of the pattern
>
> lib.la seems to be moved
>
which are harmless.
> I checked the paths inside that file and found that they are correct.
>
>
> But what is t
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:08, local account for liebichw wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been using xmms for the last ... n years :-) (b/c it was reasonably
> simple, allowed control via xmms-shell, too & didn't pull in too much
> (ok, except gtk 1 - which is a nuisance). Why the sudden death?
it death wa
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote:
> I have one question about xmms alternatives:
>
> xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys
> on my "multimedia" keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain
> voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music)
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:48, Ric de France wrote:
> On 24/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and
> > working successors: they get killed.
> >
> > Everybody who read
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 08:49, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote:
> > > I have one question about xmms alternatives:
> > >
> > > xmms has this remote cont
On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > f) it has no good alternative :-(
> >
> > it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuild
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
> It hasn't been supported for a long time. That said there is a new
> maintainer who just took it over last week so don't give up totally on
> alsaplayer. It was good for its day.
it was great for testing dmix and hardware mixing - having 8 ins
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Not only do I not want to emerge xine-lib, I don't want to emerge ruby
> and most of KDE, either.
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask amarok
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid (I
> prefer xfs but that just my personal opinion).
if you use XFS don't use 2.6.17 kernels.
if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels.
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote:
> Dale ha scritto:
> > If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power
> > failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of
> > this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK.
>
> Thanks a lot for the
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:16, Novensiles divi Flamen wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels.
>
> Is there a specific problem with ext3 and 2.6.18 kernels? I haven't heard
> anything yet,
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:03, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels.
>
> Why?
>
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&r=1&b=200610&w=2
go there, search for ext3
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:38, b.n. wrote:
> What about JFS?
it is known to be pretty robust and you will have a hard time to find
any 'horror stories' - but one reason for the lack of horror stories: there
aren't many users.
And it is very slow.
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:16, CapSel wrote:
> I wrote five because I started to count 5 times ago. My RAM is in good
> condition :) Problem with reiserfs (reiser4 is used across the net to
> specify version 4.X IMHO)
so you are using reiser4?
You know that is not even in a stable kernel and
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:33, CapSel wrote:
> I use reiserfs (version 3.x, if correctly recall 3.6), haven't even touched
> reiser4(resierfs 4.X).
>
ah, ok. From your post it sounded like you were using 4.
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On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:45, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1. reiserfs breaks down on power failures even with option data=journal
> > or sync
>
> Huh, reiserfs doesn't do this. It only logs metadata updates.
nope, it can log data too.
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On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:33, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:45, Richard Fish wrote:
> > > On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > 1. reiserfs brea
On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:19, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > y
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:05, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> I consider "Super eye-candy interface" and "Funky visualisations" as
> insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about
> them. I am obviously not their target market.
both is OPTIONAL.
without xmms/libvisual, there
On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:56, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > >> I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs,
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:40, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
> Anyway, with respect to the subject line, if my interpretation is
> correct and xmms is being removed from the package list, what can I use
> to play 'mod' files?
audacious with the media-plugins/audacious-dumb plugin?
or, emerge xine-li
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this
> happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know
> of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this
> mea
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 08:22, Alan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > > During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When
> >
try a revdep-rebuilt. A lot of such crashs are caused by some changed
dependencies.
(oh, and you can remove the BusID line from your xorg.conf. It won't make your
problem go away, but you don't need it too. Or do you have several cards
installed?).
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So you used the monolithic ebuilds.
Just re-emerge kdebase.
Don't do anything else.
After that: revdep-rebuilt.
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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:03, Stefán István wrote:
> Hi!
> I try to emerge pgp, and get the following error when the compilation is
>
> finished:
> >>> Source compiled.
>
> --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> ---
> LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandb
On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:44, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had
> libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now.
> Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too!
>
> Why are they doing it? Does this m
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:40, Cooper Bug wrote:
> Hello gentooers,
>
> I have a new 60 GB drive which I want to put gentoo on.
> This will be a dual boot system. For now, I can only
> think to give 10GB to windows, all other space for gentoo.
> Please share your instights how many partinions
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:28, Eric Bohn wrote:
> Absolute minimum:
>
> 1. Windows: Type=NTFS Size=10GB + however much more space you want for
> Windows. 2. Linux Swap: Type=swap Size=ram size
> 3. Gentoo: Type=ext3 Size=10GB + however much space you want for Linux.
>
> Recommended:
>
> 1.
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post.
>
> I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> remaining ) the portage distf
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:18, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a new power supply. This is what I got:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159040 I notice
> that this thing has no -5 volt rail on it. Is this normal now?
yes it is. -5V was only used by the isa slo
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:08, Mike Huber wrote:
> By rail you mean a connection to the motherboard right? The power supply
> itself has a 5v rail, which is delivered to the drives. Correct me if I'm
> wrong, but that's my understanding.
there is 5V and there is -5V.
5V is needed for io s
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:50, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something
> > that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still
> > sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around
> >
On Friday 01 December 2006 09:00, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Steve Dibb wrote:
> > XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no
> > maintainer. Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo
> > developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let
> > it go.
> >
>
*thumbs up*
just do it, I am ok with it.
I am just surprised, that cokehabit got so far at all
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 01:53, David Relson wrote:
> Today when I ran "emerge -au world" I was surprised to see
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 [2.6.17-r1]
>
> because I'm presently running a 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 kernel (built from
> gentoo
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:23, Statux wrote:
> The old way of doing things was to make the following two symlinks:
>
> /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
> /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
>
> Then the second would be linked to the correct set of asm headers for
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:42, David Relson wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:23:49 -0500
>
> Statux wrote:
> > The old way of doing things was to make the following two symlinks:
> >
> > /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
> > /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
> >
>
Hi,
if you don't use openoffice a lot, it is not worth to compile it. Just use the
binary package. It will take some seconds more to start, but once it runs,
there is hardly any difference.
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>
> This is a very new mobo: MSI K9A platium, with dual pci-x slots
> just for ATI video cards:
no you don't have that. You maybe have dual pci-e slots. Don't confuse the
two.
>
> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID
>=737
>
> I'm stumped as to how to appr
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:26, James wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> > > This is a very new mobo: MSI K9A platium, with dual pci-x slots
> > > just for ATI video cards:
>
> Hello Hemmann,
> yea, your right, I'm only using one f
On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote:
> I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in
> popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I
> personally still love Gentoo.
there are always several phases in the life of a distri.
Beginning, when it becomes '
On Monday 18 December 2006 19:54, Grant wrote:
> > > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in
> > > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I
> > > personally still love Gentoo.
> >
> > there are always several phases in the life of a distri.
> >
> > Be
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:09, Joel Osburn wrote:
> > From: Maurice E Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:03 PM
> >
> > Might I suggest trying the following prior to your normal
> > (I assume genkernel) build process.
>
> I don't use genkernel, never have.
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > In cases like that, you use portage overlays. Then the ebuild will
> > always be there until *you* delete it
>
> The problem with this view of overlays has been that I do an eix-sync
> and find that something I'm currently running been re
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