Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > HI group, > > My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything > and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. > > But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world > whenever it's require

Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:58:37 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I do 'it' every morning. I am still tired, eix-sync, when I come back > > with my tea, I see the updates, emerge -auvD world, ready when the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Crashed Emerge

2009-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > Hi all, > > please help me. my computer is the hell since i wanted to update world > (at ~amd64) today morning. i installed the packages listed below (=> > emerge.log). > > Now if I run "emerge" it returns: > """ > Traceback (most rec

Re: [gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? > It's doesn't have to be securely off, just off, so if it cannot be > done by meddling with group membership then doing something in a root > owned bash file that executes when

Re: [gentoo-user] How would I disable Flash (oand other things) for a single account?

2009-09-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Samstag 12 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Is it possible to shut off all multimedia stuff for a single account? > >> It's doe

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected > >> by this upgrade :-) > > > > I had some breakage, but nothing significa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 > > > > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) > > > > since this breaks

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 16 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > Faced with the KDE 4 steamroller rumbling & shuddering ever closer, > I've been trying out the 4.3.1 versions of apps I frequently use. > I have not installed the desktop management part of KDE, > only the apps themselves & whatever deps they requ

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 17 September 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > Wow, that was hard to find. Took me less than 5 seconds. > > It is nice to hear again that we are all numskulls and you are superior. > Your opinion is always right and nearly every sta

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 17 September 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > Wow, that was hard to find. Took me less than 5 seconds. > > It is nice to hear again that we are all numskulls and you are superior. > Your opinion is always right and nearly every sta

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 17 September 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 16 Sep 2009, at 23:00, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> ... > >> Okular 4.3.1 -- usable, but no noticeable improvement on Kpdf > >> 3.5.10 . > > > > that is a joke, right? > > You would be a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 17 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090917 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 16 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > > Faced with the KDE 4 steamroller rumbling & shuddering ever closer, > > > I've been trying out the 4.3.1 versio

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about a strange emerge warning

2009-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 18 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all. > > Thanks to your support, I think I got a little bit of knowledge of how > emerge works, so I started cleaning my USE flags (I had lot of useless > stuff...). > To perform such cleaning, I started with USE=-* and than added eve

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 19 September 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: > > Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is > really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is > the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... > (devolution to IRC "chat" bein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > > MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to > > get it to wake up or at least show me wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, > >>I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > >> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt wrote: > > On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > >>> MythTV b

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > More progress/problems with KDE 4.3.1 . > > Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . > They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? no - and could you please rephrase your question? it does s

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only > produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. > > Ditto in firefox. This was working. > > But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko > in

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

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, James wrote: > > any ideas? maybe you forgot CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y ? but you should really start with a diff of the configs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
a) wrong list b) please read this and think about it: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/04/filtering-compiler-optimisation-flags-is-not- a-solution c) gentoo is about responsibility. You are responsible for the stuff you do. Gentoo tries not to get in your way if it can. What you ask for is compl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in > >> 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Login prompt customization

2009-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is the text used for the login prompt at the boot console hardwired > or is there someplace - preferably a text file - where that could be > customized? > > Thanks, > Mark > it can be customzied and it is explained on www.gentoo.org.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > Gwenview : can one view hidden files ? -- it's under 'view' in 3.5.10 > & also assigned to Control-H , but nowhere to be seen in 4.3.1 . it is a bug. If you search for it you'll find it. cc yourself to be informed if something happens. >

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4 Development

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > Hi all > > I want to install QT4 for development. Since the QT4 meta ebuild is > masked, I am not sure what split packages are needed. > http://dev.gentoo.org/~yngwin/qt4-split-ebuilds.xml only tells me what > to install for applications depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4 Development

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > > [...] > > > just install the qt4 set. Meta packages are being phased out. > > Not s

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4 Development

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Dale wrote: > kashani wrote: > > Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to > >> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty > >> fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090924 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Gwenview : can one view hidden files ? -- it's under 'view' in 3.5.10 > >> & also assigned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dale wrote: > >> One thing I have noticed about hard drives in my experience. When you > >> plug that puppy in and power it up, let it run for a good long while. > >> Overnight is good, a few days

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: > >> I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it > >> was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the advice so far. Here are some more obstacles encountered. > > Kworldview : no longer an independent app (as in 3.5.10), > but seems to have been incorporated into Marble (no problem with that). > I have a file '/usr/share/kde4/se

Re: [gentoo-user] re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge > --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. > I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find > that, naturally,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: > How to hotplug IDE hard drive? > I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE > cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? > hdparm but you really don't hotplug ide devices. That is evil...

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: > What key ? It's not an evil on windows hotplug works fine. > man hdparm look for -U and -R and read the text carefully. 'works fine' means 'I was lucky' or 'I have rare hardware that truely supports hot swapping', Because a lot of 'hot swap' re

Re: [gentoo-user] What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've done an: > > "emerge --pretend -NuD world" > > and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played > around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: > > "emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:36:45 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Furthermore, *after* "emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded", do: > > > >grep oldPackageNoLongerNeeded /var/lib/portage/world > > > > to see if it's still listed in the world file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:22:30 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > emerge -C should remove it from the world file. If it does not, > > > something is broken that requires more than editing world. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:15:46AM -0700, walt wrote > > > I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried building > > the portage version. > > As I mentioned, I'm using Sun's install because the portage install > dies. > > > W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 27 September 2009, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:01:02 -0400 > > Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:15:46AM -0700, walt wrote > > > > > I'm using the vbox svn repository from Sun, so I haven't tried > > > building the portage version. > > > > As I mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my machine too old for virtualbox?

2009-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 27 September 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I didn't RTFM thoroughly > enough. Apparently, with the Sun install, and any time you build a new > kernel, you have to "/etc/init.d/vbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Ultramonkey

2009-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone I am new to gentoo, usually I use Debian. I have a fresh > install x86 2.6.30 kernel and I was trying to get Ultramonkey going on the > box. I looking for the equivilant to the following deb packages for Gentoo > please > > * libdbi-

Re: [gentoo-user] Is login on forums.gentoo.org broken?

2009-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I can't login to forums.gentoo.org. If I try, nothing happens; I'm just > taken back to the index as if I had logged in, but I'm still logged out. > There's no error message or anything. > > Is it just me? > no, it is not just you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is login on forums.gentoo.org broken?

2009-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 September 2009, Mick wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Montag 28 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > I can't login to forums.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 29 September 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Philip Webb writes: > > I've added to a number of KDE bugs relating to problems with 4.3.1 . > > Thanks for doing so! Hopefully this will improve KDE. > > I also have a huuuge list of KDE bugs, but I am still at 4.2, and I hope at > least some

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090929 Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> The one exception is Konsole, which is a shadow of 3.5.10 , > > > > According to changelog the KDE4 version of Konsole has added : > > Quick reactions, furth

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 30.09.2009 06:49, schrieb Roy Wright: > > Next install the "Konsole Profiles" widget where ever it is convenient > > (desktop, panel). > > You can only install this widget when running kde 4.x as DE. Philip > wrote more then one time that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:45:34 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > split screen mode -- yes, mb useful, but similar to tabs > > > > no. > > I can't see the point of this feature. If it were two termi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090930 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 30 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > >> easy SSH session bookmarking -- can't find it > > > > log in via ssh, click on 'bookmarks' click on 

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1

2009-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about upgrading to gcc-4.4 and was wondering if anyone here > is using it yes > and if they are having any problems with it. no > I'm using a > desktop system with KDE and OOo as the biggest packages. me too > No servers or

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1

2009-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm thinking about upgrading to gcc-4.4 and was wondering if anyone here > >> is using it > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Arthur D. wrote: > Hello, happy Gentoo users! I'm new on this distro, so I'm sorry if you > consider to be stupid what I gonna say. > > Many of us prefer editors other than nano. Some of us believe in ideas of > freedom and choice which Gentoo provides us with. But..

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Arthur D. wrote: > As the access to the bug was denied by the admin please use this link for > discussion: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-795069.html > > Thanks. > wow, you must have been VERY obnoxious to have the bug closed for others. First time I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:28, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On 10/1/2009 3:32 PM, forgottenwizard wrote: > >> However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the > >> EDITOR variable as was mentioned. This defaults to nano so it should > >> wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 Oktober 2009, Arthur D. wrote: > >> You appear to be demonstrating that you don't fully understand the > >> problem: > >> > >> 828 ~ $ grep nano /usr/portage/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.7.2_p1.ebuild > >># XXX: /bin/vi may not be available, make nano visudo's default. > >>--

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 Oktober 2009, forgottenwizard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 03:52:24 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > > Nano is not non-existent by default. > > > > > > It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent def

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing portage.* file to a directory.

2009-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 03 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm wanting to change the portage.* files to a directory since portage > has been supporting this for while now. I have a question tho. I have > a few files that are not currently "active". I have them named > package.keyword.old and a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing portage.* file to a directory.

2009-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 03 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 03 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'm wanting to change the portage.* files to a directory since portage > >> has been supporting this for whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1

2009-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 03 Oktober 2009, kashani wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > On 1 Oct 2009, at 06:38, Dale wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> ... > >>> gcc-porting helped tho > >> > >> Thanks. What exactly is gcc-porting? > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade problem

2009-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009, David Relson wrote: > I have thoughts of downgrading to 1.5.3. Any better suggestions? rebuilt all drivers. (oh, and your mail is suspiciously free of any attachments)

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade problem

2009-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:29:43 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009, David Relson wrote: > > > I have thoughts of downgrading to 1.5.3. Any better suggestions? > > > > rebuilt all

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password

2009-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi All!! Long time since last time I bothered you all! ;-) > > I googled around and found many people having my same problem, but could > not find any solution. > > Sudo works just great on my machine, while kdesu always says 'Bad > pass

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with KDESU not accepting root password

2009-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 05 Oktober 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hmmm. No, I wasn't. > > Now it works. Thank you very much! Very prompt answer/solution! > > Probably it's my ignorance, but, my kdesu is configured to use sudo. > Why did sudo work while kdesu didn't ? I don't know. Never used sudo. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: > I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now > can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libtool links > are broken. There were links to the following files, but now those > files don't exist. > > /usr/share/libto

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: > >> I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now > >> can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-06, Marco wrote: > > after emerge --sync && emerge --update world --deep my > > keyboard (in X) does not work anymore. > > I'm betting you need to re-emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > (and probably x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009, Marco wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-10-06, Marco wrote: > > [...] > > > there is a FAT warning. Maybe people sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009, James wrote: > Any suggestions or clarification are most welcome. yes, remove that drm stuff from your kernel as you are told in the error message. Compile&install kernel, install ati-drivers, reboot. Geez - the error tells you exactly the problem!

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest > nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a while > and have not found out the solution. Below is the output of emerge command > > emerge -pv nvi

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > James Ausmus wrote: > > Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter > > is harmless... > > > > > > -James > > OK. Attached is the WHOLE file. At least it is not really really huge > or anything. I tried to rebuild a few thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: > >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > > > > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with L

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: > I am running the xorg-server-1.6, to which I just upgraded, and kernel > 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, and I am having an issue with the server crashing > whenever I try to drag the scroll bar within Mathematica - which never > happened to me before with previous xor

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: > >> Section "Device" > >> Identifier "Card0" > >> Driver "nvidia" > >> VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >> BoardName "GeForce 7300 LE" > >> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > >> Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE" > > why?

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > Alan McKinnon escreveu: > > On Thursday 08 October 2009 15:56:57 James Ausmus wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dale wrote: > >>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: > I see. > > Well, I am running nvidia-drivers-180.60, and versions 185 and 190 are > masked by ~x86. Same for the xorg-server-1.6.4. So the only thing I > could do really is to update the kernel... > > But xorg-server-1.5 was perfectly stable for me, so

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 09 Oktober 2009, Denis wrote: > > nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can cause > > a lot of problems. > > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have > the same issue. > > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it. If I drag a scrol

Re: [gentoo-user] Interpreting /proc/cpuinfo

2009-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 10 Oktober 2009, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Fri, 10/09, Florian Philipp wrote: === > > > Could the missing flags be related to a too old kernel (2.6.18)? > > === > > Yes, and also how you compile it (what processor type you choose). not really > Also, some CPU features are altered b

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

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

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

2009-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 10 Oktober 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > On Samstag 10 Oktober 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> just wanted to know wether anbody has encountered this: > >> > >> Nearly all

Re: [gentoo-user] Checksum error

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently doing a python-updater run. While the rebuilding > of the several packages the process failed with > > >>> Downloading > >>> 'http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4. > >>>7.25/pa

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it > > This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word "packet" used a lot > lately to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the > stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not > qt:4). > > What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: > >>> KH schrieb: > Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > The difficulty is in keeping up with the > > idiom. Personally, I prefer t

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? > > (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 w/o DRM + > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2 works just fine.) > > I have the 2.6.31-r2 kernel with > devices-drivers/Graphic support/Direct Rend

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers + DRM anybody?

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> has anybody had success with ati-drivers + DRM ? > >> > >> (Without DRM ,i.e. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's > > breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native > > speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native > > speakers as well :-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 20:58:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only > > > have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. > > > > which m

Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2

2009-10-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a > separate window. I change

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: > Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a > fetch restriction? > > Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually > downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usually I have to go to a > web-site and then after

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Dale schrieb: > > Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on > > that. LOL > > > > At least it wasn't running winders. > > I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR > (back then th

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of > > years ago. > > I was stuck in awe. So much ram. > > Yes. I remember as well. > > "Why 1

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of > > years ago. > > I was stuck in awe. So much ram. > > I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: > Dale wrote: > > dhk wrote: > >> Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a > >> fetch restriction? > >> > >> Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually > >> downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail / uw-imap problems

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently having some interesting problems with kmail since the > flagging of kde-4.3.1 as "stable" > > I can no longer access my imap mail boxes. > > On the client side there is kmail 1.12.1 in KDE 4.3.1-r1 built wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kmail / uw-imap problems

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am currently having some interesting problems with kmail since the > >> flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel GM965

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Justin wrote: > Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > > Anyone did success on configuring Intel GM965/GL960 on xorg 1.6? I have > > an acer TravelMate 5720 ... > > > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 > > Integrated Graphics Controlle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Kmail / uw-imap problems

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> > On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > >> >> Hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Kmail / uw-imap problems

2009-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> > On Donnerstag 15 Oktober 2009, Elric Wolfsbruder wrote: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Library file formats

2009-10-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 16 Oktober 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:59:46 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Run lafilefixer --justfixit. > > > > I don't have an lafilefixer; which package is it in? > > eix could have told you that. > or emerge -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Library file formats

2009-10-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 16 Oktober 2009, walt wrote: > On 10/16/2009 04:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I thought I'd have a play with swami, but the emerge fails with > >> "/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libogg.la: No such file or directory", > >>

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