Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 02 Dezember 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on > > November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. > > After downgrading, I needed

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 > > fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted 'u'. Is it > > reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the > > unlauted u? > > No. Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
look at my name, ok? Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error. Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ä, ö or ü, you must transform them to ae, oe or ue.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking > shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes, we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accent&co creates a completly new word. Probably one that is already there. Munster is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of > 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which > have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is > recommended, then indiv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:31:16 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in > > case of problems only takes seconds. > > Install demerge too and you can roll back

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 091205 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of > >> 'eix-sync', write -- with a penc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" wrote: > >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. > >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. > > I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 11 Dezember 2009, Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 07:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On 11 Dec, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> On Friday 11 December 2009 11:11:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I'm curious how portage solves its most

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:54:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > > That is certainly one good example. My little ol desktop is not rebooted > > to much. I once went 242 days without a reboot. > > Ahem! While we are busy comparing wang siz

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:54:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > >> That is certainly one good example. My little ol desktop is not > >> rebooted to much. I once went 242 days without a reboot. > > > > Ahem! While we are bu

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 12 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Willie Wong wrote: > >>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:54:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > >>>> That is certainly o

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 12 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 06:32:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > >> and what is the advantage? Why do you keep your computer running, > >> wasting energy? Is there any good reason?

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/12/2009 2:42 PM, Dale wrote: > > And some would also argue that cycling power on and off is actually > > bad for the rig as well. Keeping things at a constant temp is better > > than fluctuating temps. The old expanding and contracting of

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:42:13 Dale wrote: > > And some would also argue that cycling power on and off is actually bad > > for the rig as well. Keeping things at a constant temp is better than > > fluctuating temps. The old expanding and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

2009-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > it seems, something has screwed up my system. > > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect. > Next time exactly the same package is reported aga

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

2009-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 13:40]: > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > it seems, something has screwed up my system. > > > > > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

2009-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 14:28]: > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-12-13 13:40]: > > > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cra

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that "KDE 4.3.4 > works just fine with Qt 4.6". > > If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does > not work "just fine." On first sight, it does seem to work,

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Kirill Lipatov wrote: > well yeah. I just think that setting the kdm as the login manager is the > easiest way to automatically start kde4 session after loging in. However, > kdm is of course not mandatory and it can do more than just start kde4 OP wrote he wanted 'kde'

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. > I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, > so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. > > I've come across CompFused which seems to be just

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. > >> I&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 29.12.2009 14:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > I do no know btrfs. But there are two nice things about reiser4: > > it takes your data seriously. It tries everything to make sure your data > > hit the pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into > > ext4. That > > crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. > > People say this fr

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Guys, > > I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has > installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed > some of them had some helpful YOU MUST DO THIS steps and i am wondering do > they all have those or does

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:17:52PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Schwidom squawked: > > as i noticed the directory /usr/portage/distfiles holds all installed > > sources. What i want to do is modifying the code and reinstalling the > > package. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > > you can make it even easier: > > create: > > /etc/portage/env/PKG_CATEGORY > > put patch in that directory > > create fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into > >> ext4. That > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > Marcus Wanner wrote: > > On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > >>> I had to hard reset the > >>> system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the > >>> wrong co

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and kde-base/kdelibs:3.5

2010-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Januar 2010, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Hi I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it gets to the emerge stage and i > get this > > !! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-base/kdelibs:3.5" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > reques

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Today it is finally released. I don't know why it took so long. :) > > > > It's a bit sad though that an open source project keeps secrets... I > > found out that the tarballs were av

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/26/2010 12:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>>> Today it is finally released.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Januar 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my > monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in > 32bit env. > > do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.? lm_sensors-2.XY ---> decod

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange disk behaviour

2005-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 13 May 2005 01:58, Jose Manuel García wrote: > I'm starting to feel this could be a physical issue with one or more > of my hard discs but I'm not sure. Maybe has something to do with > filesystem corruption? As you can see, I have one ReiserFS partition > (sda3) where the system and por

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

2005-05-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 14 May 2005 10:25, Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: > > My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA > > as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, > > but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you

Re: [gentoo-user] jfs bug

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
> > Any ideas on what this is and how to fix it? hm, you said, fans are ok, ram is ok.. have you tried different cables? If yes, bring the board back to the seller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 16 May 2005 22:43, Grant wrote: > > What do you mean by rebuilding the machine? Do packages need to be > recompiled under the new glibc to take advantage of NPTL? no, just no. There is almost never the need to recompile your system, and this is one of the points, where recompiling is

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:04, Grant wrote: > > If I use -nptlonly instead of +, do I still risk incompatibilities? with ntplonly you WILL have problems. With 'nptl', you can say the apps which implementation to use. Great for broken/old apps with problems. BUT if you use ntplonly you can NOT go

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:37, Grant wrote: > > > If I use -nptlonly instead of +, do I still risk incompatibilities? > > > > with ntplonly you WILL have problems. With 'nptl', you can say the apps > > which implementation to use. Great for broken/old apps with problems. BUT > > if you use ntplonly

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 02:01, Grant wrote: > > > How do you tell an app to use linuxthreads instead? What is the point > > > of +nptlonly? A more compact installation? > > > > A trick to make an app use linuxthreads is set > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 > > in the env your app will run in. > > Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:47, Tim Igoe wrote: > Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs - > recompile and reboot. last time I tried that, I got a unusable box. That was, when I decided to stay with devfs... it does not hurt me... and doesn't do udev slow down the booting?

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 22 May 2005 19:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | I dont know why people are even discussing this. Posting in HTML is an > | absolute NO NO. It ignores those people that dont have (or want) HTML > | support in their email software and is poor netiquette. > > They're discussing it because no-

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major written about > Slackware "...if you need help with your Linux box, find a Slackware > user. A Slackware user is more likely to fix the problem than a user > familiar with any other distribution...". Is it true? well Slackware is the distribut

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
> > > > Then I request blocking all html-mails! > > > > Take that, stupid discussion! > > I think the chances of anyone from infra reading this thread (or still > reading it after it's been dragged out for so long) are pretty unlikely. > > Feel free to create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org about it thou

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.4.1?

2005-05-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 30 May 2005 12:11, Jan Meier wrote: > > Anyone have an idea when this show goes on the road? > > There is actually no release announcement at kde.org. > Strange that there is a ebuild for that. > > Greets > Jan well, it is usuall, that the ebuilds are ready, before a kde release is out -

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4.1 released

2005-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, since all sound daemons suck, and setting up dmix is simple (exspecially with latest alsa, where dmix is default), there is no reason to use a sound daemon or not to use dmix. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname

2005-06-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:26, smoke3 wrote: > for CABILLOT: I don't like re-emerging baselayout: I took a look onto > the .ebuild and I suppose it'll do a mess on my /etc/init.d > However, TNX!! > and? what is the problem? /etc/init.d is nothing where a user has something to change/edit/do.

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 06 June 2005 03:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, > is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, > other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for > people with very large root partitions?? security

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, when I go some years back, I alo had a bunch of partitions, but I went away from it for several reasons: it is a great waste of space at least one partition is always too small a lot moving head will reduce the lifetime of your hharddisk if a partition fails, it will always the wrong one. --

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, since my whole system (except /home) fits on one tape, the backup argument is not too convincing for me. And it does not matter if /usr/lib is on its own part, or part of / - if it is gone, you have a problem ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, well I have a 120GB drive, splitt into 56GB system, 47GB home, 2GB swap, 15MB /boot and a 'ply around partition' REST. The /-partition will fit fine on a single 35GB DLT, compression on or of does not matter, because / is never really full enough for needing more.. That is why, I just use

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:45, Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > This isn't a Gentoo related problem, but a hardware > one (I know next to nothing about hardware). > > First of all I have a Micron computer with a floppy > drive, DVD-read drive (/dev/hdc), CDR drive > (/dev/hdd), a master harddrive (/dev/h

[gentoo-user] how to change volume when using dmix?

2005-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I am using the alsa-dmix plugin since ages and have and had always the same problem: in alsamixer/kmix/kamix etc, I am not able to influence the (pcm) volume anymore. Sure, I can chnge the 'master' but this does not help much, when civclient is damaging my ears, and I would like to listen

Re: [gentoo-user] SoundBlaster AWE64

2005-06-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 June 2005 22:00, Zac Medico wrote: > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > Hi all, I was wondering if someone on this list has trouble with > > SoundBlaster AWE4, because I had one and I could never make it work > > properly with Alsa In gentoo now I canot hear any sound at all !!! > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] AthlonXP flags

2005-06-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 June 2005 21:53, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > I was looking over the internet for some CFLAGS for athlon XP and I > didn't found any. Does someone knows what are the best C and CXXFLASG > for athlon XP ? march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe why mmx and sse? bec

Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$

2005-06-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 06:14, A. Khattri wrote: > Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet: > http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 > > > -- because DR has not much to do with gentoo anymore? And even DR has to live from something - if the job is nice and well paid, why not? It won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Java (Blackdown) and Konqueror

2005-06-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I am using the sun jdk, because blackdown was always a little 'different' (uglier fonts, slower, does not work with xy), and had never probs with sun-java and konqueror. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server

2005-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 17 June 2005 20:55, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require > about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to > an Oracle database. > The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month > (pretty g

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, shutdown X, than: remove .Xauth, remove all dcop mcop, .ICE* stuff in the home-dir. Remove in /tmp kde-*, mcop*, .X*, .ICE*. try again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting a spotty connection

2005-06-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 20 June 2005 19:13, Grant wrote: > First of all, I owe several people responses to their messages and I'm > sorry I haven't taken care of that yet. I'm running around like a > chicked with its head cut off right now and I will catch up with this > list ASAP. I'm leaving the US for Europ

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get GNOME back?

2005-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning > > > problem). I got the base system up and emerged gnome. I've done this > > > several times before, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: > I'm sure that ATI will come through, or, whatever. Just, well, if you > get one RIGHT NOW, NEW, you'll be dissapointed. > Well, ATI driver sucked 10 years ago, they suck today... I don't think that ATI is able to make any decent drivers EVER.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:13, Luigi Pinna wrote: > > Ok, in this case a question: which other cards support a good 3D? > If I don't buy ATI or NVIDEA, but other one Can I use UT2004? I need > 3D only to play... But I don't want to have a expensive card... And ATI > and NVIDEA start to 50 €

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have an old IBM 19" crt, which dies 1280x960, 1280x1024 fine. The cable blocks ddc, so I have to give h-sync and vertrefresh range, but since xfree 4.0 I never had to do anything like 'modlines' etc... HorizSync31.5 - 96.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0 is everything needed... even 1600

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 02:07, Jason Cooper wrote: > Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of Corfu. > > It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally impossible > > to find a place that will let me plug into their netwo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:29, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > I would not trust a wifi setup by a unknown 3rd party to do online > > banking. > > > > The security of the average wifi is pretty low. Because of > > lazyness, stupidity > > or bugs. > > However, any good bank will have SSL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:11, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jul 5, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:29, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >>> I would not trust a wifi setup by a unknown 3rd party to do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Nope, no digging. Phone lines terminate in handy little boxes on the > side of the houses. Cable modem lines have little termination > pedestals on the street and single cable going into the building yes digging ;) These boxe

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 16:07, Billy Holmes wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > hm, you want to tell me, that it is as easy to get into the computer > > room, hack a line and listen, than to hold an atenna in the right > > direction? > > it only takes *one* co

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 22:54, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> Nope, no digging. Phone lines terminate in handy little boxes on the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth Adapter???

2005-07-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 09 July 2005 04:57, timothy johnson wrote: > I am thinking about getting a bluetooth usn adapter to use my old sony > cell phone as a remote for my music server. Just wondering if anyone > has use a bluetooth usb adapter, if there are any howtos to get this > setup??? And if it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:12, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I've just finished compiling Gnome and have no sound whatsoever. > Looking at my USE flags I noticed I had inadvertently set -alsa as a flag. > > At this stage I've changed the flag to alsa and re-run genkernel. But still > no sound. Do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:41, Vincent A. Primavera wrote: backing up sys? that is like backing up /proc... there is nopthing interessting, nothing that will or should survive a reboot, so why do you want to make a backup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev

2005-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:07, renna wrote: > hi to all > i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions > of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up > to 660, like this > > crw-rw 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console > crw-rw 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

2005-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: > Hi there > > I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to > know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make > it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? > first, read the instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

2005-07-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions > >> into the free space, / and /boot. > > > >Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. > > You can create a swap file at an

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 16 July 2005 23:58, Zac Medico wrote: > Alexander Veit wrote: > > Zac Medico wrote: > >>Yep, here's another forum thread and an open bug: > >> > >>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343187-highlight-.html > >>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90236 > >> > >>I can tell you that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:55, Zac Medico wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > but there is enough stuff out there, that does not work with ntpl. > > So recommending ntplonly is irresponsible. > > No problems here. I'd expect people to do their own research before

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:38, Jarry wrote: > > Just my 2 cents. I have been using asus-products for about 7 years, > but I think asus is not the hardware-producer it used to be. Asus > still makes excelent mobo's for Intel, but its mobo's for AMD64 > are... well, imho only "average". Nothing more,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:49, Richard Fish wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:55, Zac Medico wrote: > >>Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>but there is enough stuff out there, that does not work with ntpl. > >>>So recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 18:32, Bob Sanders wrote: > btw - my recommendation of PC Power & Cooling power supplies is not > because there are no others as good, it's that I've had more fails and seen > more fails with other brands. ok, I do not now PC Power & Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:17, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split > >> ones. > >> Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. > >> The problem seems to be the

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 July 2005 11:47, Zac Medico wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Do you have enough ram? > > If you need swap, kde is dead slow. > > This one should be *really* obvious. If the hard drive is thrashing, > you're out of ram :-). > > Zac not re

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:15, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > so, not kde, but mozilla is slow? > > Slow redreaw of gtk is known. > > > > Do you have enough ram? > > If you need swap, kde is dead slow. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

2005-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 19:10, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > All, > > During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after > the first reboot. The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable > and the file system could not be mounted. > > Installation of devfs solved it, but, a

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 01:54, George Roberts wrote: > I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my > mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. > I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be > sure it is not a broken mouse I booted into M

[gentoo-user] boot problem since devfs-udev switch

2005-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I switched from devfs to udev 10 days ago, and since then every nth boot will hang at 'initializing random number generator' I had at least one udev-update since then, without changes. The box reacts to the sysrq-keys, so I am able to reboot - and the reboot is always successfull. I follo

Re: [gentoo-user] leapfrogging versions

2008-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > IO-Socket-SSL-1.12 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202459 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Library

2008-01-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, why do you need to upgrade your lib in the first place? And why not ask HP about it? Maybe they can provide you with an updated binary. Last point: does it work at all? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: > I recompiled nvidia-drivers, but when I tried running X, I got a blank > screen. > > Couldn't get back to the console. > > I suspect this is something simple, but I don't know what it is. > > Any help is appreciated. any information is appreciat

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann > > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:42 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce > >

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card from geforce 6600 to geforce 8600...

2008-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 1. Februar 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: > I got home and realized that I don't know how to get the xorg.conf file > off of that machine without running an email client from X, so I looked > through the Xorg.0.log file and saw that it contained no errors, but it > died trying to load glx. D

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage issue

2008-02-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008, Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: > > Portato is GUI for portage/emerge ;). > > Erm, hmmm, what's a GUI? A GUY who lost his ` -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got > it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if > it's worth the trouble with multilib which trouble? > , chroot'ing, never needed. > firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ > > By the way, *right now* I'm using Firefox in 64 bits, because YouTube > now works with swfdec. emm, 'normal' flash

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 3:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Va

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: > On Wed, 06. Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann spammed my inbox with > > > > not needed anymore either. flash does work in the 'normal' firefox just > > fine. > > Come again? I would be very glad to finally

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: > Yeah, it seems nspluginwrapper works better now. The time I tried it, it > just crashed with a segfault and did nothing. But installing it again, it > seems to work. Thanks for your suggestion^^ -- > thenybble.de/blog/ -- four bits at a time I on

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: > > The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first > time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The > light just stays on while loading everything up. do you use prelink? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mai

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