Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Martin S schreef: > > The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a > specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which > makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged > home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and you'll know what I > mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

James schreef: > > (Booo) > > > The really sad thing in this whole thread, is nobody > has even mentiond which (kernel) sources to use, what > to disable/enable and why. Is this some sort of deep secret > or is the gentoo community un_caring about those who > simply want to learn about iptable

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Hi people, > > I was wondering, do you have any pointers to transcode an mpeg file > to an xvid? The original is a +4gb file, and I need to create a good > quality of aprox. 100mb xvid file. I don't think this is realistic... you are trying to reduce the fil

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>> Is this 100MB a strict limit on the final file size (if you even >>> can do it, it's going to be the size of a postage stamp, though >>> possibly the most beautiful postage stamp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

James schreef: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > >> Good morning, this is the general users list. If you want the >> security experts, try > > >> gentoo-security For the discussion of security issues and fixes >> gentoo-hardened

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>> That's about the best I can do for you without knowing more about >>> the construction of the file, and what you're trying to do with >>> it. > > > Well, many

Re: [gentoo-user] 4gb mpeg to 100mb xvid?

Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>> Direct from tv? Use avidemux or any video editing program to get >>> rid of the commercials then. > > > Not direct from tv. The people who record (with cameras) and then > join the

[gentoo-user] Pyopenal, slune, and ebuilding

Hey all, It's a long story, but the short version is, I was trying to emerge slune (a game), which requires soya (the engine), which requires pyopenal (the sound server). But the version of pyopenal in portage wouldn't build against the 'current' (stable + unstable) versions of openal (see http://

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

renna bud schreef: > is there a command to let me know the name and model of my > motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find the > manual and box in which it came) ? thanks Hi, renna, As far as I know, there is not such a command-- but there is a command to find out the in

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

Dave Nebinger schreef: >> is there a command to let me know the name and model of my >> motherboard, without having to open my pc-case (or worse to find >> the manual and box in which it came) ? thanks > > > emerge dmidecode > This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provid

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i find out my motherboard?

Mark Knecht schreef: > On 9/9/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This looks quite the useful utility, but it doesn't seem to provide >> the requested information (or at least, not all of it, and what it >> does provide is difficult to recogn

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client starting before net.eth0

Daevid Vincent schreef: > What determines the order that things in rc-update (/etc/init.d) start? > > I run ifplugd, and I notice that (as the title says), ntp-client is starting > before net.eth0 and therefore can't find the pool.ntp.org site (of course). > > /etc/init.d/ntp-client shows > > de

[gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

I've been having this problem for a couple months now, but today I'm annoyed enough to ask if there's something I can do about it. Normally, I run esync as a cron job in the middle of the night (the standard 3AM), and normally it works fine (though I had a few days where the error I'm detailing be

Re: [gentoo-user] Why gpm?

Jes__s Garc__a Crespo (aka Sevein) schreef: > Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base > system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information > about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo > in my dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain)

Re: [gentoo-user] Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system?

W.Kenworthy schreef: > Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system? > > bunyip ~ # emerge media-tv/mythtv -vp > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r1 +alsa (-altivec) -arts > -debug +dvb +frontendonly -jack -joystick

Re: [gentoo-user] "panel" error

Michael Crute schreef: > On 9/10/05, *Dave Nebinger* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > A google search turned up another message: > >> I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by >> purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

Paul Varner schreef: >> What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync >> (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the >> servers in the European pool, but... all of them? >> >> Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default >> is rsync.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:58:19 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > >> // start quote >> >> Building the System >> >> To start building the system, execute emerge --emptytree system. // >> end quote >> >> So you see, it does tell you to do an emerge --emptytree system, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about "no mixer elements and/or device" on login

Nick Rout schreef: > When I log into gnome I get a dialog with the following message: > > "Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found" > > Advcie from google and forums.g.o seems to point to the following > likely solutions: > > 1. make sure user has ability to do audio - yes I can, and ever

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome complains about "no mixer elements and/or device" on login

Nick Rout schreef: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:59:53 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Oh, and whatever route you choose, you probably want to remove the >> mixer from your panel, then re-add it to prevent other panel >> weirdnesses that seem to occur when you have to do th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build kde-base/artsplugin-mpg123

Kirk Strauser schreef: > I installed 2005.1 on a laptop a few weeks ago and have been unable > to build kde-base/artsplugin-mpg123 since then. I've stripped my > make.conf down to a bare minimum to reduce the chance of weird > compiler bugs: > What I see is the following > ./.libs/libmp586mmx.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

Sébastien MORAND schreef: > pyrenees:~ # emerge -uNDvp world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5) > [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6) > [b

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

Sébastien MORAND schreef: >> You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for >> unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not >> working. >> >> If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for >> this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syn

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling DMA on SE7520BD2S

maxim wexler schreef: >> Does by respective you mean that youre motherboards > > > from OED: > > respective, a. Each's own, proper to each, individual, several, > comparative... > In other words, "yes". :-) He compiled the nvidia kernel modules for the nforce mobo, and the ali modules for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

Charles Trois schreef: > Hello! > > I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I > want to use is > > PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ " > > I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and > non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. > > If I log in as a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: gnome-spell build failing

Nelis Lamprecht schreef: > Hi, > > No takers on the below error ? I've tried removing it completely, > re-installing it but still get the same error. I have to skip it every > time I upgrade my ports. Didn't see any bugs relating to it either. > > Nelis No problems here (just emerged it) >>> M

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

Willie Wong schreef: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Charles Trois schreef: >>> >>> I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was >>> obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files &g

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

Volker Armin Hemmann schreef: > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 22:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > >> Hi !! >> >> I'm trying to do an "emerge -vuD world", but I just can't. For my >> surprise someone put into portage a bad MD5 sum for ati-drivers. >> Portage just tells that sizes don't match

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

Volker Armin Hemmann schreef: > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 22:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> There's a bug on b.g.o about it. It looks like something wrong with >> the manifest (bad copy and paste or something; or in any case, the >> md5 is the same as all t

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

Michael Crute schreef: > On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There's a bug on b.g.o about it. It looks like something wrong with >> the manifest (bad copy and paste or something; or in any case, the >> md5 is the same as all the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum

Michael Crute schreef: >> On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Yes, sometimes I do claim 'pure user' privilege. Certainly where >> the ATI drivers are involved. I do *not* want to get mixed up in >> development or

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: gnome-spell build failing

Nelis Lamprecht schreef: > * Applying gnome-spell-1.0.6-enchant.patch ... >[ ok ] * Applying > gnome-spell-1.0.6-combo.patch ... >[ ok ] * Runnig aclocal > /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted definition of > AC_PATH_D

Re: [gentoo-user] Plesk...

Mal Herring schreef: > Hi List, > Anyone ever installed Plesk onto a Gentoo server ? > > Can it be done and if so how did you find the install ? > > Got someone wanting me to install a Plesk box for them and I don't want > to have to use Red-Hat > Apparently, you don't, anymore: OS Requirements

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: bad md5 sum [SOLVED]

Michael Crute schreef: > On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would have done it months ago, Mike, if there was any way, but I >> really have absolutely no budget, even for an MX440 (true >> desperation, if I'm even considering an MX 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

Christoph Eckert schreef: > GUI != ease of use :-) :-) :-) :-) See, statements like this are why 'the average user' says that Linux is only for geeks. :-) :-) :-) :-) What in the bloody blue blazes does "!=" mean? :-) :-) :-) :-) I would guess that it means 'not equal to', and is typed this w

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

Christoph Eckert schreef: > To be honest, this has nothing to do with command line or not. I use > a great command line script called unp. It unpacks any archive format > without knowing the options of the various packing tools. Simply > type »unp FILENAME« and you're done. Like it. > Oh, and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

Mauro Faccenda schreef: > > You understood what it means => you are geek > > And don't try to avoid been called geek by using those fancy smileys. ;) Drat! And I would have got away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids .!!! Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

Dave Nebinger schreef: >> "/usr/src/-> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" >> >> "/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" exists > > > You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, > as in: > > # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 linux > > Dave > Or, dicing it down even furt

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

Glenn Enright schreef: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:18, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Dave Nebinger schreef: >> >>>> "/usr/src/-> linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" >>>> >>>> "/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4" exists >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] hal and udev problem

Michal Kurgan schreef: > Hello! > Recently (after udev update) i spotted that hald do not create mount points > in > fstab so kde media kio slave doesn't work... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun Java JDK upgrade problem

Chris Woods schreef: > > On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> >> * Please download j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin from: * >> http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp? >> StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_09-oth- >> JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg * (SDK 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

Jonathan Wright schreef: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in >> particular I should look for? > > > I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty > releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

Stuart Howard schreef: > dont have an answer but there was a long "argument " on the security > list entitled > > [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? > (black icons) > > Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting > back to r1 "may" fix

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

Jonathan Wright schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory >> leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel >> like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for >>

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Session Saver, and the modular search engine bar, are such good >> features, which I find so essential, that Firefox would have to get >> a whole lot closer to unuseable than

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

David Morgan schreef: > On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the "Add more..." >> and I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the >> list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the >> particular one...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

capsel schreef: > I've found that I changed configuration of my kernel - cdrom driver > is loaded as module and must be loaded on boot (before > hotplug/coldplug ?) for hdc to be created. Somehow parport_pc is > loaded automaticly. > > What can I do to force hotplug/coldplug to load ide-cd and

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk build error

Aleksandr Guidrevitch schreef: > Hi there, > > /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted definition of > AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS_GNUSTEP > /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:239: warning: underquoted definition of > AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS > /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:333: warning: underquoted

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

Stewart Taylor schreef: > Hi all > > Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with > all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a > computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, > have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

Stewart Taylor schreef: > Hi All > > I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed > Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small > compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware > under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half

Re: [gentoo-user] alias

Matthias Langer schreef: > Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: > > $ alias > alias d='ls --color' > alias ll='ls --color -l' > alias ls='ls --color=auto' > alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' > > The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

Eric S. Johansson schreef: > trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. > Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' > > suggestions for how to fix would be most welcome > > thanks in advance > > --- eric I just had that error with howl; a sync fixed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclass 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1'

Eric S. Johansson schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Eric S. Johansson schreef: >> >> >>> trying to upgrade the system and I'm getting this error. Eclass >>> 'portability' does not exist for 'gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1' >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

gentuxx schreef: > Stewart Taylor wrote: > > >>> Hi >>> >>> Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a >>> treat. >>> >>> Stewart > > > Um, I have the same problem. But (and I suspect this is why), I have > no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. KDE runs great! I've done a 'find / -na

Re: [gentoo-user] running mldonkey with umask 0002

Robert Persson schreef: > I would like to run mldonkey with umask 0002. However I cannot work > out how to do this. The Gentoo version of /etc/init.d/mldonkey > calls start-stop-daemon, but start-stop-daemon doesn't have a umask > option. > > > As mldonkey is the only program that runs as user

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:50:28 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: > >> # equery d libmpeg3 [ Searching for packages depending on >> libmpeg3... ] app-misc/evidence- > > > What are these versions? Are they CVS installs, or packages > installed outside of portage and in

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

Billy Holmes schreef: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> it reboots? I don't expect that this should happen often, but I'd >> like to know when it does. > > > setup ssmtp, install mail-client/mailx, then add this to > /etc/conf.d/local.start: > > date|mail -s 'I just rebooted!' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > And

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

Qiangning Hong schreef: > Bryan Whitehead wrote: > >> Can't you also use the iocharset=utf8 and codepage=utf8? >> >> something like: mount -t smbfs -o >> user=,iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8 \\server\path /mnt/samba >> >> This doesn't work? > > > It doesn't work. There are "?"s in the filenames

Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

David Harel schreef: > Jonathan, Thanks for your explanation. > > I still don't get it. The command emerge should have done the > dependent packages before doing the desirable package anyway. It will, but not if you haven't specified support for it via USE flags. Meaning: 1) The Win32 codec sup

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc usefalgs

Matthias Langer schreef: > I'm woudering about the effect of the following useflags for > sys-devel/gcc: gtk, multislot, vanilla Does anybody know what they do > ? -> useflag multislot /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-devel/binutils:multislot - Allow for multiple versions of binutils to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kernel?

Alexander Kirillov schreef: >>> Is there a way to list all ebuilds which need to be remerged >>> after kernel upgrade? Would be nice to have a special emerge >>> target for this very thing to happen automatically. >> >> >> emerge -v $( equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:>=:' ) > > > Thanks P

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom: open failed

Carl Flippin schreef: > I've recently done an install based loosely on the 1/3 method but > using 2005.1 as the base. Everything works fine except for an error > message which I get on bootup. Every time I boot, I get the message: > > cdrom: open failed > cdrom: open failed I always assumed that

Re: [gentoo-user] System update problems and Incompatible gcc

Rupert Young (Restart) schreef: > grep: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/libstdc++.la: No such > file > > or directory > > /bin/sed: can't read > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/libstdc++.la: No such file or > > directory > > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train?

Ow Mun Heng schreef: > I've got a bunch of ham and spam in my mailbox (mbox format) and I > just want to use it to train it. How do I go about doing that? I've > tried dspam_sa_trainer but it keeps complaining of errors. (Can't > write to the /var/amavis/.dspam/ directory, even though I run it a

[gentoo-user] Unmountable hard drive (already mounted or busy)

That about covers it... I know the events leading up to this situation, but that's not helping me solve it. Originally I had a 9GB drive on hdd which contained the original emergency SuSE installation after I totally broke Gentoo (this was when the PAM breakage progressively ate my installation, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmountable hard drive (already mounted or busy)

Holly Bostick schreef: > The only thing I can think of is that this is some kind of weird evms > conflict, and the drive certainly is listed in evmsgui, but really > my useage of evms is so very limited that I almost should go back to > lvm2, so I really am not getting how this in

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

Matthias Guede schreef: > Phill MV wrote: > >> Evertyime I boot up I gett a long string of weird buffer errors >> shortly after udev starts up; stuff like >> >> nbd0: Request when not-ready end_request: I/O error, dev nbd0, >> sector 4294965120 >> >> where ndb0 changes up to ndb12. >> >> I st

Re: [gentoo-user] Probleme beim Update von "mutt"

Liebich Wolfgang schreef: > Hi, > Nachdem ich beim Starten von mutt auf einmal eine Fehlermeldung wg. > fehlerhafter libgdbm.so.2 (Länge 0!) bekam, > Versuchte ich, mutt neu zu installieren. Das ging aber schief mit einer (mir > unverständlichen) autoconf-Fehlermeldung. Kann hier jemand etwas dam

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Xsetup

Rajat Gujral schreef: > hi > > i am a newbie in gentoo and for the first time i tried to upgrade my > kernel from 2.6.12-r6 to 2.6.12-r10 , but the kernel was not upgraded > . When you say you tried to upgrade your kernel, what do you mean to say that you did? If you did something like emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor

Jason Stubbs schreef: > As I said, it doesn't seem like it's misinterpreting from the output Actually, it seems to me that it is, from the output: > Track 01: of MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes > read/written: 4660250624/4660250624 (2275513 sectors). Writing time: > 101

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

Phill MV schreef: > That makes me feel much better. On a related note, shouldn't we be > filing bug reports, then? Never occurred to me since it was a PEBKAC (problem existing between keyboard and chair, to save people having to look it up). The only reason NBD was compiled into the kernel was bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Xsetup

Rajat Gujral schreef: > Sorry forgot to attach the log :(( > > > Hi holly, uwe Thanx for ur replies ... I was actually trying to > install my sound driver when emerge automatically downloaded the > newer version of kernel i.e 2.6.12-r10 telling me it has a better > support for sound cards.. Af

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

Paweł Madej schreef: > > My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs > from [1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for > example 10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that > it will email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

Dave Nebinger schreef: >> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I >> some way turn off this cache? > > > I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's > mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs > are impacted but regular portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

Tony Davison schreef: > > Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH I was looking under How-Tos (and searching in the wiki/google for cdb patch). Weird that the wiki search engine didn't find it, though. Maybe I just didn't go through enough of the hits. > > PS Hows the cold?

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

Richard Fish schreef: > Phill MV wrote: > >> Well, *something* is trying to access a function that doesnt exist >> in NDB; whether we know what it does or why, I'm guessing it's a >> behaviour that shouldn't happen :P. >> >> I suppose whatever tries to access NDB has a bug in it... but what >>

[gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. I've been fighting with FVWM off and on for a while, and before I tried to go toe-to-toe with the giant, I had installed FVWM-Crystal (I'm a chicken). Which I thought was very pretty, but there was no config I could find to edit and no help (in English),

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Mark Knecht schreef: > Hi Holly, I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might > as well take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice. > > It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. > > More embedded below and at the end. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Tony Davison schreef: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:33, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. >> > > > >>This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I >>think I've just switched

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Mark Knecht schreef: > On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht schreef: >>>> I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but >>>> all transparent) >>>> >>> I don't quite see this

Re: [gentoo-user] How to apply a patch to an ebuild?

Roy Wright schreef: > Howdy, > > With Holly's praise of fvwm-crystal I thought I'd give it a try. But > then I hit bug 89594 with aumix. The sound team provided a patch, > aumix-2.8-autoconf.patch, which will create the two missing config > files (they didn't fix the ebuild because it works on th

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

vikram ranade schreef: > oki I am still stuck at installing gnome..taking forever to > compile :-( Sympathies Gnome as a whole isn't so bad; it's just that some of the packages required in the full GNOME monty are among the longest to compile-- most notably mozilla. Even stripped via

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Mark Knecht schreef: > On 9/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Great. Tried it. It worked fine and didn't upset Jack which means >> my experiment goes on. >> >> This is working so much better for me than Gnome on my AMD64 box. >> I'll have to go back and try the standard Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Mark Knecht schreef: > On 9/29/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht schreef: >> >>> On 9/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Great. Tried it. It worked fine and didn't ups

Re: [gentoo-user] [Completely and totally OT] FVWM-Crystal...!!!

Mark Knecht schreef: >> Can you record audio from the command line? Or do the X-based >> programs you use run under DirectFB? What I'm getting at is getting >> rid of all the obstructions that could possibly interfere with the >> kernel and introduce even more latency issues than what it alread

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

Wes Gray schreef: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:21:37PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > >> With revdep-rebuild it tries to remerge the same version that you >> have installed. If your version is no longer in the portage tree, >> then "there are no ebuilds to satisfy" your old version. You >> should

Re: [gentoo-user] test message

jangar schreef: > is only for test my enabled posting > As far as I know, you are not going to get your original message back in your Gmail box. Gmail leaves a copy of the messages you send in your sent folder, and when the message comes back from the list server, it is recognized by Gmail as an

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- SOLVED

Dan schreef: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: >> >> >>> I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no >>> response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. >>> > >> downgrade ffmpeg - afair there was even a bug on >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin

Martin Ullrich schreef: > Hi! > > I am using the 2005.1 Universal Installation CD (link from > www.gentoo.org). The problem is not, that I can't assign an address > or fetch dhcp information, but even "ifconfig eth0" fails with a > message like "no such device" (the same with eth1). > > Martin

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

Hans-Werner Hilse schreef: > Hi, > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 > Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - >>leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this >>message ... > > > Does it re

Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin

Martin Ullrich schreef: > Martin > > 2005/10/5, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Martin Ullrich schreef: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I am using the 2005.1 Universal Installation CD (link from >>> www.gentoo.org <http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

Eric Crossman schreef: > Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about using > portage beyond the most basic minimal commands. This seems to fall > under the "used to work" category. > > In the past, I've used a "emerge system" and "emerge world" to update > to newer versions of i

Re: [gentoo-user] About ATI drivers in X.org 7

Rafael Fernández López schreef: > Hi, > > I've read something somewhere that have amazed me... Is X.org > developing new ATI drivers, better far from ATI.com ? Yes and no... I think what you're talking about is most likely the open source r300 drivers (similar in effect to the open source 'radeo

[gentoo-user] Re: 回复： Re: [gentoo-user] install ge ntoo 2005.0

张 勇顺 schreef: > --- Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>写道: > >> Am Freitag, den 07.10.2005, 14:05 +0800 schrieb 寮 鍕囬『: >> >>> hi yestoday to today i am spend two days to install >>> gentoo 2005.0 and see the hand man but when i am install it i am >>> see what modules were load with lsmod but i ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with font-color and fbsplash

Rafael Fernández López schreef: > Rafael Fernández López wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm using fbsplash for cool booting. I'm working on my own themes, >> but I've noticed that it doesn't matter what I put on the >> variable fgcolor or bgcolor, because it will do nothing. >> >> Always console col

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1

pat schreef: > Hi all, > > I have problem with compilation of the gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r1/2. > > I know what the error is, but I have no idea how to solve it. > Previously I've used as flag 1386-pc-linux-gnu, but I've switched to > i686-pc-linux-gnu and the vfs looking for the i386 version which > d

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

Jorge Almeida schreef: > I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: > > checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not > found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

Jorge Almeida schreef: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >> Jorge Almeida schreef: >> >>> I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: >>> >>> checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not >

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

Fernando Meira schreef: > On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: >> >>> I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean >>> that >> >> it is >> >>> loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules..

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

Nikodemus Karlsson schreef: > Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using > emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be > installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only > get the updated packages with one command? I'm not quit

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