Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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, > > > > > > libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > 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 T

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008, »Q« wrote: > I only need English support, but USan English is preferred. I have in > make.conf > > LINGUAS="en_US en" > > thinking that if an app supports en_US that will be used since it's > first. Is that the way it works? no. It installs the en_US and en language fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting portage sync

2008-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > I was just wondering, while watching an emerge --sync, is it possible > (or advisable) to limit what portage syncs? For example, I have a server > here that doesn't use X, kde, gnome, java, and a number of other fairly > large areas of portage. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-3.5.9 and Kmail

2008-05-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It appears to be an artifact of the current Keramik theme you are > > using - I get the same here, but Plastik theme does display correctly > > You mean you get the same when you set up your theme as Keramik,

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glib

2008-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Grant wrote: > >> I downgraded from glib-2.17.2 to glib-2.14.6 and had problems so I > >> went back to 2.17.2. How can I make this downgrade successfully? > >> > >> - Grant > > > > revdep-rebuilt afterwards? > > Yeah revdep-rebuild only comes up with transmission (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Bill Roberts wrote: > This is my first time replying to a thread using gmail, so I apologize > in advance if It ends up on the wrong end of the thread. > > There seems to be a big change coming in graphics: Intel is coming out > towards the end of the year with a motherb

Re: [gentoo-user] temporarily lower gcc's optimization flags - HowTo

2008-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > due to a bug with gcc-4.3.1 when used with -O2 or higher > I need to emerge a package with a lower optimization (-O1) > than my default in /etc/make.conf (which is -O2) > > Is there a means to do so without changing /etc/make.conf temporar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi, > > > I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. > > The proprietary drivers *never* worked for me - the binary kernel > modules crashed the whole kernel (complete lockup) after a several > seconds (doesnt even need X to

Re: [gentoo-user] temporarily lower gcc's optimization flags - HowTo

2008-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Justin wrote: > First he only wants to reduce his CFLAGS and second as discussed it is > more easy to use EXTRA_ECONF variable to expand configure stuff. and filter-flags does exaclty that - filter and replaces flags. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point > > of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories? > > The point is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with keyboard layout

2008-06-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: > Hi! > > I have problem with Keyboard Layout. I've set KDE (3.5.9) to use Polish > Keyboard Layout, but when i press left ALT it brings event like RETURN > key was pressed. After pressing UP arrow print screen event with screen > capture app

Re: [gentoo-user] coreutils binary package

2008-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 June 2008, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > > Due to problems with coreutils w/ 'xattr' USE-flag (cp) can't remerge it > as some other packages. > So need a binary package w/o xattr, a newer version will > probably solve this too (need a i686-binary). > Seems i could also use the install dis

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. > > > So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better > > > if doe

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cdrdao has not been enhanced since many years now. > > > BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and > > > that is not supported

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, ionut cucu wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200 > > Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > > > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > Hey guys, > > When my PC wakes up from suspend-to-ram, X crashes, my video card is > an intel 945GM. > > In ubuntu it works, I tried using Ubuntu's hal-info folder and I > patched my Intel driver with all ubuntu patches but the problem still > here,

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Joerg Schilling > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thank all you guys! > >> > >> I will try dvd+rw-tools since it support both DVD and CD. > > > > This is a missunderstanding:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD drive firmware version

2008-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how I can find the firmware version in my Lite-On DVD > drive? I have an .exe file with the latest version. Impossible to > use it? > > - Grant http://forum.rpc1.org/index.php usually freedos works fine for flashing. For some burners l

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

2008-06-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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2008-06-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Sebastian Wiesner wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Thursday 26 June 2008, > > 10:54:43 > > > > > The calculation is quite simple - measure how quickly a specific > > > computer can match keys. Divide this

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2008-06-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27.06.08 00:12]: > > and this is why nobody uses brute force. > > > > There a better ways to crack keys. NSA has tons of experts in mathematics > > and cryptoanalys

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Grant wrote: > Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I > try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing > that lately? > > - Grant a botched gcc-upgrade/clean cycle damaged gcc beyond repair - but that was easily solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but > > mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel I > > "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it

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

2008-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, Jörg, you do have a point (or two) and guys? Cut him some slack, ok? I had my 'clashes' with him in the past, and yes, sometimes he is tiresome to deal with or too tempting to provoke him, but this whole mess is really not his fault or only to a very small part that could easily explained

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
so, have you asked to become its maintainer to fix the bugs? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

2008-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 28. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I've got a little question. Here I've got a PC with two 40GB hard > disks, a CD-burner and a DVD-burner, all PATA. Now I'm running out of > disk space and I'm thinking about ways to increase it: > > 1. I could replace the older 40GB

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PATA performance

2008-06-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > cheap SATA-controller:EUR 35 your are looking at the wrong places. Cheap sata-controller: 20€. cheap 500gb samsung disk 55-60€ cheap 400gb samsung PATA disk ~60€ > > By the way: Actually the mobo has two SATA-controllers but one of th

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008, Pawel K wrote: > Hello > > I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. > I compiled the kernel as follows: > Processor family >   Core 2/newer Xeon > > Subarchitecture Type >   PC-compatible > > High Memory Support >   Off > > All my remaining packages are compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 5. Juli 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > I find it a bit sad that cdrkit is the preferred cd burning application > because it satisfies the cdrtools virtual first. This means when you > have neither cdrkit nor cdrtools installed cdrkit is preferred. However > i could not find out why.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 5. Juli 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Installing the includefiles from libscg into /usr/include/scsilib/scg makes > them unusable as there is no software that is aware of this location. wrong. It is easy to tell software which needs/wants that headers the right directory. If ther

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
one question: why don't you use 'make install' and have a 'vmlinuz' and 'vmlinuz.old' entry in menu.lst/grub.conf? that solves/prevents lots of errors. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote: > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. > And this depends on cdrkit until you remove the broken symlink. cdrkit > seems to "steal" the cdrtools dependencies from other programs. *rolleyes* it is not 'stealing' but 'virtuals'. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote: > > > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. > > > And this depends on cdrkit until you

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If hd0,0 is your boot partition, you shouldn't have /boot in the kernel > l

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:01 -0500 > > > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> After getting a LOT of help on this, I got it sorted out. This is > >> what is installed: > >> > >> [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > > > kernel /boot/kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? to make sure it is off ;) I once read (also a long time ago) that the nmi-watchdog could/would/does slow down disk io. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > >> but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper >

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > > How did you "add" support for that? Are you talking about the program > itself or a USE flag? he is the maintainer of mkisofs ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? > > > > to make sure it is off ;) > > G

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: > I'd say this has gone on quite long enough. There *were* some nuggets > of information among Jörgs lunatic ravings, but I think it would be > best if we ended the thread. Also, who would I have to contact to get > Jörg removed from the list? why remov

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008, Dave Oxley wrote: > I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still > vulnerable. What more do I need to do? you need to install the updated tools to. Client and server side have to be fixed. Also the DNS your DNS is using has to be fixed. And fina

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail delays

2008-07-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > Is anybody else observing big (several tens of minutes) delays when > receiving mail from gentoo-user to a Gmail account? > I am seeing big delays with my non-gmail account. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] proper subject lines

2008-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I would like to raise my voice against the use of overly long subject lines > that run out of space on the line provided. what is 'overly long' and what space are you talking about? > > Complete sentences are not necessary. A few, wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem

2008-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 14. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer > than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little > tribute here: fuck. Always the best. Always so early :( -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount

2008-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, in your case: go to lkml with your problems. There the people who wrote the stuff. They are probably the only ones who can really help you. And yes, the great ones will need more information. Like kernel version, exact error message, version of the tools used, hardware ... -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions

2008-07-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, have a look at the udev and hal rules. I am pretty sure that this has nothing to do with cdrecord or k3b. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] discarding sources of old kernels

2008-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked. > They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19* > > Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if > I discard the corresponding sources. I am fairly sure tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this because of make oldconfig?

2008-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 18. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I rolled up a new kernel after I ran make oldconfig and noticed this little > message: > === > . . . > CC arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.o > AR arch/x86/lib/lib.a > LD vmlinux.o > MODPOST vmlin

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as > opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! > > I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? > or you are a victim of that new preserved-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
How about: not using screensavers at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > How about: not using screensavers at all? > > Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? > A "ps -ef" doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > > > > > How about: not using scr

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild now very very fast

2008-07-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > on 07/19/2008 02:28 AM Volker Armin Hemmann said the following: > > On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. > > This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting > warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings > at any time, and with the kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > > I used make oldconfig and my old kernel config as a starting point. Did > you happen to do the same? Maybe it should be done from scratch? Some > conflict or something? > > Thoughts? you turned on some stupid feature. Like a bunch of debug options t

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesner > However, may I point out that a great deal of the kernel is in support > of minorities > of users? Especially in the device drivers. There may not be another > machine on the planet with the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Kevin, > > It's fruitless to argue with someone who uses crude swearwords --- a > sign that they more interested in impact than in reason. and it is fruitless to argue that the kernel should wait for closed source stuff of questionable l

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 26. Juli 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: > xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X. > If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks. > I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before it > wrote anything. Suggestions apprec

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 27. Juli 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: > removed wfb, xtrap, record. Still didn't work. > No nvidiafb in kernel. > Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? > Thank you. > -Tracy > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 you should search the forum first - and read the stick

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world. no. Just no. > This will rebuild > all of the packages on your system in the correct order. The second > factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a > firefox3 problem then

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: > > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world. > > > > no. J

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: move instalation from one system to another one.

2008-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Stroller > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 31 Jul 2008, at 19:50, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> ... > >> Note the "emerge -e world" is not what we need here as it will leave > >> broken system packages (the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: move instalation from one system to another one.

2008-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 1. August 2008, ABCD wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > not anymore. system was taken out of world. > > > > http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=121607297615623&w=2 > > That is only true if you are using >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_alpha (that > is, the current ~arch version) looks like.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start KDE

2008-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 1. August 2008, Mike Diehl wrote: > > What do I do now? I do NOT want to rebuild this machine please show the permissions. sticky is not enough You need 't': drwxrwxrwt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1 ebuild

2008-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 2. August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote: > Alle venerdì 01 agosto 2008, Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: > > Am Freitag, 1. August 2008 09:27:27 schrieb Rev. Ferris: > > > I want to install the new kde 4, but I see any 4.1 version ebuild. > > > I understood that the the series should be unmasked, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

2008-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and > it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I > can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several > partitions to ~/ in an effor

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 4. August 2008, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if their is a easy way to clean out the cruft in my > world file? Is their a script? I tried saving a cope then running > regenworld but that didn't do much. Maybe it is old and out of date? > > The reason why I want to do this? W

Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot w/o noapic

2008-08-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Couple days ago my PC suddenly froze and I had to reset. So I checked this > and that and found out eventually that only by booting with the noapic > option could the system be accessed. Even the BootCD requires it. > > This is an A

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to > start or how to explain it. > > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but > it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when s

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even can write to it over a network/the internet (mbuffer+tar).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Filipe Sousa wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the > > drivers are broken: > > > > GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration > > hardware. The 3D

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Justin ha scritto: > >> I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to > >> handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the > >> xulrunner instead. > > > > Huh? What if I n

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers > > are > > | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment > > and are > > | made to lay

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy > > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - > > but most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot > > worse. The onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. > > Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique > from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is f

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > > Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? linux + uclibc + busybox? yes. And maybe you even get X or KDE run on it - google and tell us your results ;) http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 11. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. > >> > >> Is there a Linux system

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell problem

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 11. August 2008, Ivan Alden wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working in a shell with tar and I changed something where now when > I type "*" it interprets it as --exlucde > > i.e > > $ * > bash: --exlucde: command not found > > or > > $ ls * > ls: unrecognized option `--exlucde' > Try `ls --he

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 11. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > there are many shells. sh, bash, bsh. korn, csh, zsh, dash, tcsh, > > why make a new one, if you can do incredible stuff with zsh? A shell is > > not so easy to create. > > I understand.

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > >> So I can rephrase my question as those two: > >> Why didn't those projects use the Linux kernel? > > > > because they wanted to do something different. > > Yes, very proba

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail 4.1

2008-08-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I installed same days ago the kde-meta 4.1 (one question: when does it come > in official portage tree?). I have almost no problem, only kmail doesn't > work properly. > I have an ISP that requires login authentication to use its smpt s

Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?

2008-08-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > Now, was that a stupid thing to do, or should everything under /var > continue to work still, without issues? afaik it should work. > > /home is mounted in fstab, just like rootfs. I'm worried about a reboot not > working for some reason .

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe someone here has seen this before: > > amd64 > 2.6.26-gentoo > KDE-4.1 > nVidia 8600M GT > nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable) > nvidia OpenGL > xorg-server-1.4.99.906 any reason why you use an unreleased X? There are no new

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Maybe someone here has seen this before: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 11:51:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > any reason why you use

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote: > > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > > > This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with > > nVidia cards. > > > > Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the > performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want. AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware anymore - everything is done in t

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, b.n. wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > > In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment > > laptops are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops > > with nvidia graphic are failing left and righ

Re: [gentoo-user] df and du difference

2008-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've a strange problem with my root partion: > > # du -hxs / > 188M/ > > > and > > # du -hx --max-dep=1 / > 24M /root > 4.0K/cdrom > 19M /etc > 76K /.nvclock > 12K /media > 100K/chroot > 4.0K/home > 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 16. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 15:41:04 Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D > > stuff that cripples the > &

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 17. August 2008, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 16 August 2008 23:40:21 Dale wrote: > >> I use 3.5.9 and with a newer kernel, I get the same > > > > slowdowns. Could > > > >> this me something to do with the kernel? I'm using > > > > 2.6.23 but the > > > >> 2.6.25

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 19. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: > > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > > << SNIP >> > > > > > > I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make > > > sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc error

2008-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
does something crash? not work? because this might be annoying noise. If you have ever started nvidia-settings while some 'non standard encoded' file names were in home you would have been spammed by 'critical errors'.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc error

2008-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 20. August 2008, Justin wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > does something crash? not work? > > No nothing crashes and everything is working, but CRITICAL warnings are > not senseless > > > because this might be annoying noise. > > Probably, but

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable the display power save mode

2008-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. August 2008, Zhou Rui wrote: > Hi, > After install the basic gentoo system, the monitor will turn to black > after a few munites, > but I'm running some program and I have to watch the output in console. > So how to keep my display always alive, I did some google but cannot > fin

Re: [gentoo-user] building kde-meta

2008-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 21. August 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > This email comments on something dealing with an emerge package issue; if > this is the wrong list to put that into, let me know, I'll try again. > > I'm trying to emerge kde-base/kde-meta. As I ordinarily do with things I > know will have lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz > processorAbout 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The > process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, > reboot, rebuild network drive

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