Re: [gentoo-user] virusses on Linux [was: Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows]

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > This is getting OT but I still want to ask: > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security > fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on > l

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at > > > least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) > > > > Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> ... > >> In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I > >> understand that right? > >> ... > >> Get real. > > > > When you're describing some

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is > > > populated? > > > > have you fiddled with: > > > > right-click (on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it > > contains Back, Forward and Up items, as well as System:/, > > Trash:/, various removable media and fish/ssh/smb sessions > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: cannot start sshd as net.eth0 could not start

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > The Subject line explains the issue No, it does not. It does explain that sshd cannot start because your network isn't up. Now you have to find out why the network doesn't get started. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Basically, it is the history of your browsing. *You* populate it > > by browsing different sites. > > Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it > contains Ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in > > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for > > the Go menu? Mine looks like such: > > > > > >&Go

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in > > > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for > > > the Go m

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in > > > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] network question

2008-04-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 05 April 2008, ionut cucu wrote: > I had a buddy in my lan with whom I shared files and such. But > recently our campus network management decided to give our my dorm > building another external ip, and put a firewall( I think) between > us. So now instead of both of us having the same

[gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, emerge --update world tells me: [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me: --- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge. So let's be more specific: emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells me: --- Couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Ralf Stephan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my > > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache > > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? > > cons

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > emerge --update world tells me: > > [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking > > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) > > > > emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me: > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's > blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall > gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am. It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc > installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead. > > Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed. > ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by othe

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and > > always only: > > > > - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later > > - do not use A > > I have always resolved "A

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating servers to a new box

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > This morning my server box died (power supply problem > I think). You didn't mean it, did you? Sending an email just short of 1MB to a mailing list. Please tell me you made a silly mistake. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.li

Re: [gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Multiple parse errors. :-( Didn't get at all what you were trying to say. Please don't get me wrong. I know your mother tongue isn't English, neither is mine. You have got one thing to keep in mind: If your command of the language you ar

Re: [gentoo-user] X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Grant wrote: > When I try to start Xorg, the exa module unloads with "undefined > symbol: fbGlyph8" and then i810 unloads with "undefined symbol: > exaDriverFini". Can anyone tell me how to fix this? > > (II) LoadModule: "exa" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown > Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Eric Martin

[gentoo-user] mesa / 3d driver for openchrome

2008-04-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, according to the mesa web site, mesa-7.0.2 contains a 3d driver for openchrome. Unfortunately, the ebuild knows only about a very limited number of video cards, openchrome not amoung them. How can I convince it to compile the openchrome 3d driver? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibi

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: > Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? > Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit

Re: [gentoo-user] kolab questions

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > > I just found this page: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ > > Groupware is the general category. My questions are: > > Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? > Lng time ago. ;-) > > Would one run a traditionally s

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Net Warrior wrote: > Well, after all I'm confused after reading the thread. > > Should I use this or not ? *USE="-ipv6 -ftp" emerge -av mplayer* No. Rather put it in /etc/portage/package.use. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) L

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 25 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Alan, > >Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have > > only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace > > the drives and then do new installs from scrat

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: > Hello, > recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86. > mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps. > As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version > no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring > mkt

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 28 April 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. > > Everything is working great but I would like to increase the > > security a > > little. I was wonderi

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information > > for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The > > doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with > > > depressant side-effects > > > > Just watch TV for a while. > > Yeah right :-) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's > CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the > executables will be recompile (willing to wait) > or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch? No

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to > > current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so > > far m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if > > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. > > Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) You were ver

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a > > 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 > > system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files > > using wh

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > David Relson wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your > > operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small > > programs and compiles them. I can see how cac

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100 > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > > > David Relson wrote: > > > > > > ...[snip]... &g

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: > > > > Too bloody smart for it's own good > > yeah. > > i can't burn dvd/cd anymore thanks to hal. Every couple of seconds > ano

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > === On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody > > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what > > to config? > > Sorry, in spite of multipl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 05 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > OOo has just got to be the most fscked-up ebuild I've ever seen. I think you are being unfair towards the gentoo developers. It isn't the ebuild but OOo's build system (and source). The gentoo devs just try to work around its extreme fragility. Sti

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon > > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would > > have given you a prompt. > > I don't follow Alan. > > The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to > restore the

[gentoo-user] emerge-delta-webrsync fails

2008-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I use emerge-delta-webrsync. I get an md5 error for snapshot-20080501-20080502.patch.bz2 for a couple of days now. Anybody in the know what is going on? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts

2007-07-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 July 2007, Frank Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to debug an init script / daemon I'm trying to run. I can't > seem to print the debug output to print to a file. For example I > enter: > > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart --debug >> /root/apache2.debug > > or > > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart --debug >

Re: [gentoo-user] shorewall configuration

2007-07-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 July 2007, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure snat with shorewall. I read all manual on the > official site + some Gentoo Wiki topics. I made test configuration, but > shorewall start didn't start and I can't understand where is the problem. > > Thank you for any su

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > > I am programming Python (2.4.1) scripts to run on our Gentoo boxes and am > having a bit of trouble I was hoping you could help me with. My file, > hello.py looks like this: > > #!/usr/bin/python > print 'hello, python' > > I add execute permissi

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This leads to the question whether you can start *any* executable from > > your > > home directory (assuming you stored your script somewhere under your home > > directory). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > try a plain old bash script and see if that works, and try this and > see if it works: > > cat >> testrun.c > #include > int main(int argc, int* argv) > { > printf("helloworld"); > } > ( press ctrl+d here ) > > make testrun Without writing a Makefile, mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 July 2007, Greg Lindstrom wrote: > $ mount > /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) > /dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime) > /dev/sda6 on /u

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 July 2007, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:13:08 -0500 > Greg Lindstrom wrote: > > ..[snip]... > > > I'm not sure what you are asking here. > > > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/env > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/env -> /bin/env > > > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/python > > lrwxrwxr

Re: [gentoo-user] program autostart from another user [OT]

2007-07-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 July 2007, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2007 16:07, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: > > I see... Just curious, why would you need a program to be executed by a > > user who isn't logged in? The only reason I can imagine is a daemon, > > server o similar; > > Yes, this is a serve

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 August 2007, sean wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:30:01 +0200 "Xav'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you want to check there is no such program on your system, I > >> advice you to try chkrootkit, to check there is no such rootkit on > >> your syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 August 2007, Mateus Interciso wrote: > Hi, basically, I want to share the internet using a Bridge on a pc with > two NICS, one for internet, the other for Internal Network. > Now, I know a easiest approuch would be to use NAT, which is how I'm > doing now, Actually, masquerading would be th

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 13 August 2007, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > > [gentoo-user] Internet bridge': > > On 13 August 2007, Mateus Interciso wrote: > > > but since I really need Level 2 Routing,

Re: [gentoo-user] I can not burn

2007-08-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > As it seems, non of my Gentoos can burn CDs anymore. > > On my laptop I try to use Graveman. As soon as I start the burning process > the CPU usage reaches 100% with 80% cdrecord and 20% Graveman while the > drive does not even spin up and the percentage

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > In one word, there is no useable desktop search engine for linux. > > > > they are called 'locate', 'find' and 'grep'. > > good tools, fast tools. Feel the love, people Yup but not so suitable fo

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 August 2007, Cipher van Byte wrote: > As far as I'm concerned the structure of directories and links (hard or > symbolic) were invented to eliminate the _need_ of having such searching > engines. > > I've got every file in directory that it belongs to, and I do have "tmp" > directory where I

Re: [gentoo-user] shared portage tree

2007-09-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 September 2007, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, folks > > > Is there any problem to share portage tree over nfs between different > archs? > In this particular case I want to use a machine with arc=amd64 > as a nfs server and share its tree with several x86 machines. That's fine. Uwe -- Jack Ni

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:35:06AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > 071108 James wrote: > > > In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings: > > > CLOCK="local" > > > > That sb "utc". > > I have heard that Windows expects the hardware clo

[gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree

2007-11-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, here comes an interesting little problem. I have two boxes, A and B, both running gentoo. Box B has got a full portage tree, box A has none but nfs mounts it from B. This has worked for me for several years. Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything else)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree

2007-11-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 November 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Since some update lately, A can not nfs mount /usr/portage (or anything > > else) from B. NFS mount is broken. I know that emerging nfs-utils will > > cure the problem. On the

[gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, subjects says it all actually. I have a new motherboard with the VIA VT8237R Plus chip on it. Tried kernel 2.6.22-r5 and 2.6.23-r1 but couldn't get sound to work. All the relevant modules are loaded I think: uwix src # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss35648 0 snd_mixer_oss

Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound

2007-11-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 November 2007, David Sveningsson wrote: > Uwe Thiem skrev: > > Hi folks, > > > > subjects says it all actually. I have a new motherboard with the VIA > > VT8237R Plus chip on it. Tried kernel 2.6.22-r5 and 2.6.23-r1 but > > couldn't get sound to work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for > X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least > when I used Debian). Nice factor for X makes graphical software run fater? I don't thinl so. Not at all. Uwe -

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level > > > for X11? (this make

[gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it > > fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? > > there is no 'libm

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Mine has been set to LINGUAS="en_GB el" for many years now, but > > mplayer still shows up with scrambled characters on the terminal > > (aterm/rxvt). However, when rebuilt like: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Pawel K wrote: > I compiled the kernel with all modules: > > make allmodconfig > make > make modules_install > > I have udev running on my machine since more than a year. > I created the following section in grub.conf: > > title vanilla-all-modules > root (hd0,0) > kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox lock me out of my X session and X get 100% cpu usage

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Claudinei Matos wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having a weird problem here. I do have an amd64 install of > gentoo with KDE 4. > Well my problem is that sometimes (once or more per day) when > using Firefox I do > click in some link or try to scroll down/up the scrollbar my >

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" - what is "57"? > > > > Minutes : what else ?! > > You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes >

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall + dns secondary

2008-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 21 June 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm adding primary and secondary name servers to my small (5 > static) ip network. > > > Are there any security reasons that I should not run the secondary > (Bind) name server on the firewall (iptables) directly? Well, security holes have been d

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote: > Hi, > I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no > response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a > better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio > CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your > > soundcard is missing or loose. > > you don't need that cable. Really. You don't. Sure. Some sof

Re: [gentoo-user] congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network, > with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically > update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent) > system, that can be physically swapped for update,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote: > Sebastian Günther wrote: > > * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> After getting the mailing list working I did some techy > >> shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large > >> files. I used Kbackup to creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 January 2007 15:52, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > Anyway if you know > > how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped > > during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo > > only takes 5½ hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2007 13:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > What are the specs of your box? > > Dell Latitude D810 > 2GHz Centrino > 2GB Ram > 80G SATA > 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to com

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Window Maker Site

2007-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2007 16:55, Sean wrote: > Some others here must use Window Maker. > Anyone able to access their site, something else going with > them, do they still exist? Drunk ... coffee. Horse addled. Shoes? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunar won't build?

2007-02-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2007 19:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'd like to apologize for the attitude in this posting.  I've > > been using Gentoo for over a year and I've always been > > extremely frustrated with the Gentoo bug search facility. I > > never

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 February 2007 18:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > I just sat through about 5 minutes of 100% CPU usage and a thrashing > > hard disk. I ran top and it reported 0% idle CPU, but the list of > > processes totaled maybe 20% CPU usage. How can this be?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 February 2007 18:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > > answers" way of thinking. > > A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) :-) I will never take up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 16:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > More likely it's latency. Most "modern" X apps seem to require > a lot of round-trips between client and server. The latency of > a Wifi link is probably 10-100X that of a wired Ethernet link, > even if the bandwidth is the same: Where do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 February 2007 17:05, Grant wrote: > > >> I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead > > >> of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it > > >> feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via > > >> X-Forwarding. > > > > > > Could

[gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I can't seem to build any version of mysql. Here is the error: checking HIST_ENTRY is declared in readline/readline.h... configure: error: Could not find system readline or libedit libraries Use --with-readline or --with-libedit to use the bundled versions of libedit

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 08:51:58 Uwe Thiem wrote: > > can't seem to build any version of mysql. Here is the error: > > > > checking HIST_ENTRY is declared in readline/readline.h... > > configure: error: Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:21:26 Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > I guess you didn't look at closed bugs then... > > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143298 > > > > > > If your problem

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:41:37 Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > CXXFLAGS="O3" > > > > > > And yet you did... ;) > > > > Hm... That never was a problem with mysql before. Not even with versi

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 07:19:10 Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Are you sure there isn't a second entry setting CXXFLAGS=O3? Or perhaps > > > in your env? > > > > > > # grep CXXFLAGS /etc/make.conf > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql build error

2007-02-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 28 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 > > ../../././bdb/dist/../mutex/mut_pthread.c > > ./libtool: line 323: s,^.*/,,g: No such file or directory > > ./libtool: line 73

Re: [gentoo-user] Can portage clean up after a failed installation?

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 March 2007, Jules Colding wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 06:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 01 March 2007, Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > about '[gentoo-user] Can portage clean up after a failed installation?': > > > I've just tried to install nexuiz.

Re: [gentoo-user] quick kmail question

2007-03-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 March 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:54:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > As an aside, it seems that kmail does /something/ to check to see if a > > existing konq window is responding -- if I click URLs too quickly, some > > will open in an existing window and ot

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my > latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on > *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network point, or any of the other > four in this row of desks, al

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it > > > should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bo

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 March 2007, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:46, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > Have you tried to force your NIC down to 100Mb/s early in the boot > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers > > serving a given IP. > > What do you with that? There's no such thing - any nameserver _can_ > return any IP. Authoritative answers c

Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

2007-04-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 April 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm > still confused ( a regular condition!) > Here's my problem. I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series) which > I can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analo

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 April 2007, Coder TuX wrote: > On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46: > > | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. > > | > > | I noticed that ping works for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Interesting. Just completed emerge -uvDN world using > the "-03 -pipe" cflags in make.conf for the PIII arch. > I noticed as the output scrolled by that the flags I > set were being used for all packages *except* gcc > which used "-02 -pipe". Some packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > --- Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > don't use -O3 unless you need _extreme_ performance > > -O2 -finline-functions is close to -O3 but doesn't > > use -fno-home-register > > For toolchain, I just stick to -O2. For power-hungry > > apps, I use -O2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 April 2007, Davi wrote: > Em Terça 10 Abril 2007 16:01, Francisco Rivas escreveu: > > Hi all.. Oh god.. well damage done, but you learn the lesson rigth?.. I > > believe yes. Actually all the people in the forum learn the lesson... > > > > For the nex time remember use O2 :D > > I hope the d

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