Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge nano ?

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
oh, and please don't break threading. Don't start a new thread to answer other mails and answer the mails below them. If your programm can't do it, switch to one that can. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 11. Mai 2008, Martin Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > i want to use lomount for mounting a partition out of a diskimage. > > I am sure that lomount is part of sys-apps/util-linux, but it is not > there after the emerge. > > Any hints? emerge xen-tools -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device

2009-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 10 April 2009, Grant wrote: > After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer > appears when I insert a memory card. Does anyone know why that is? > > - Grant you also did an udev update and nuked some config files?

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 10 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Wyatt Epp wrote: > > Greets, > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > > Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show > > one mas

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC emerge Fails

2009-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 12 April 2009, Strake wrote: > I was running happily with VLC 0.9.7 until I discovered that I had > built it without a52 support, which was required to view some file. I > promptly changed the appropriate USE flag and re-emerged. However, the > emerge now fails with the uninformative die

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 13 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 10 April 2009 15:35:23 Dale wrote: > > Wyatt Epp wrote: > > > Greets, > > > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > > > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > > > Things like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 13 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Dear Gentooers, > > I need your help, because I just cannot get X to run on my new PC with ATI > Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. What now? > > I tried all sorts of ati-drivers, most (if any) did not compile. But that > was because of tuxonice-2.6.29

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 08:56:51 Roy Wright wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:19:47 Paul Hartman wrote: > > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman > > >> > > >> wrote: > > >>> The only app I am really dis

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 10:48:09 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > I don't like dolphin either, it reminds me too much of Nautilus. But > > > konqueror is showing it's age, and as a browser it's now almo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop > > Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the descriptions of this stuff > flies way over my head. Admittedly, as so

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 17 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. > mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to > pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer, > xine and Myth all crash with similar e

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? > > I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's > > probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially > > for something as

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? > >>> I've never managed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 18 April 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: > >>>> Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>>>Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 18 April 2009, KH wrote: > Robin Atwood schrieb: > > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed > > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 > > since I had higher versions masked. I use > > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Chef wrote: > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want > > to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > > Can I follow the guide on: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > > > Is that a pr

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Thomas Chef wrote: > > > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > > > > wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to > > > restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than > > > 100 multi-volume archives

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume > > archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have > > to have a closer look at the -fifo

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume > > archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have > > to have a closer look at the -fifo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and > all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something > because there are still "holes": outlines of buttons or windows with > no content. The most important

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I > began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message > tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no matter > how I play with it, I can't ge

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I > >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated syst

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > wrote: > >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> Hi, >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman > >> > >> wrote: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs "Fake" RAID

2009-04-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 27 April 2009, Andrei Susnea wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:39 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > >> I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I > >> bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the > >> processing to t

Re: [gentoo-user] testing autoreply

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Justin wrote: > KH schrieb: > > Justin schrieb: > >> Ignore me! > > > > be sure we won't! > > Just want to check if he is still replying, > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267740 why all the panic and noise? just ignore the replies or you will create more no

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Jarry wrote: > Daniel de Oliveira wrote: > > Yes, moderating him. > > He deserves much more than that. > Life-time ban for that stupidity would be adequate... > > Jarry you are a flawless person. you never made a little mistake in your life time. Did you?

Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Haus.

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, AllenJB wrote: > Please don't complain about top posting on this list. This is a public > support list with no enforced rules regarding top posting. > > If you don't like top posting: Tough. > > (See also the many times this has been discussed previously, with the > same

Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Haus.

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, AllenJB wrote: > The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think > it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. > > It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that are > the real problem. no, there is a consens

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Marc Meyer wrote: > Neil Bothwick schrieb: > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > > Although I would have thought it should be > > possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. > > Whats the point of quoting then?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > Also as > Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you > have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss from my old OS/2 email > client. kmail does that - I use kmail for all my 6 email accounts - including google mail.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 21:47:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > Also as > > > Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 29 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Say, I see here > > > > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 > > > > > > some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start

Re: [gentoo-user] Was man hier schreibt, man findet es überall!

2009-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Nicolas Richter wrote: > Hallo, > > ich habe gerade gesehen: > http://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&q=%22Nicolas+Richter%22+gentoo&btnG=Suche >&meta= > > Warum werden denn die Beiträge über das ganzen Internet verstreut, daß habe > ich jetzt nicht gewusst daß man das überall au

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning > to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks > into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, > make them bootable and aba

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Jim Cunning wrote: > > On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! > >> the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > >> OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- > >> conducting paste and so on. Now it would be nice to have something for > >> quick GPU load testing

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Gaydenko > >>> wrote: > >>>> OK, as Stroller has suggested,

Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel

2009-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 03 May 2009 02:58:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote: > > > I thought glxgears was a GPU test not a CPU test. > > > > it tests almost nothing from the gpu - and the resulting

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia setup instructions?

2009-05-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brandon Vargo wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, > >>Is this the right page to follow for up-to-date installation > >> instructions for a 6200-based card? > >> > >> http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia setup instructions?

2009-05-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brandon Vargo > > > > wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-05-

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia setup instructions?

2009-05-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > >> >> Thanks Brandon. I'm up in X now on the 6200 AGP so it's functional. > &

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the > playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible > again. Does anyone know why this is? > > This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kern

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 dependency mess

2009-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > kde:3.5 poses me a Gordian knot which I cannot cut. > > Besides the whole kde:4.2 packages I still have kde:3.5 packages. > > Trying to re-emerge e.g. kde-base/kdepim:3.5 I get blocking packages. > Many packages are built with kde-base/kdeli

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if > > > the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/ds

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume > > > > I doubt that :-) > > Mirrored - no problem. But

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > I cannot access /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > when you go to the multimedia settings in system settings - are those ok? > > right devices? xine set? > > The backend is still set to Xine. As devices I have "HDA ATI SB (HDA > Generic)&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > The backend is still set to Xine. As devices I have "HDA ATI SB (HDA > > > Generic)", "HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI (HDMI Audio

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel

2009-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my panel > back to some default. Now I've lost my semi-transparent panel and it's > replaced with some baby-blue thing. I've got lots of extra themes installed > and can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel

2009-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview > with a qt4 GUI. > > My /etc/portage/package.use contains > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi > > > but when I try to emerge it > emerge -vp sci-visualization/paravi

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc not working after update

2009-05-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 13 Mai 2009, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi all, > > I've updated my system and gcc stop working. > I've done: > 1.-) emerge -uD world > 2.-) revdep-rebuild > 3.-) emerge -depclean > 4.-) revdep-rebuild > > > depclean did this: > > sys-devel/gcc > selected: 4.1.2 >protected: none >

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dale wrote: > > Since the "new" xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this > > devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal > > is. > > It (xorg+hal/fdi config) has worked fine for m

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I > > don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if > > at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's > > design is

Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

2009-05-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 16 Mai 2009, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > Hi all, > > on my new computer i recently installed gentoo using a raid1 > of /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6. i'm using genkernel with nearly standard > config (except the configs regarding raid and power management) and my > grub ist configured as u s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 17 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 17 May 2009 03:33:22 pk wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > As I see it, at the bottom of the stack you have a kernel and at the > > > top a user space app (the X server will do for an example). Plug in a > > > USB device that the app can u

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with > --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I > update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into > emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. > > So t

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and > > world will not be bloated at all. > > Because I don't always w

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, > but portageq does not see it. > > Background: > > I've been masking out the new xorg server, but things have started to > break, so I'm giving in. > > The process has been shaky,

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, > > > but portageq does not see it. > > Probab

Re: [gentoo-user] security

2009-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 23 Mai 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with > security problems I got curious about the following case. > Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my > attention. The solution offered by the up-str

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > > ### Begin xorg.conf ### > > > > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > >Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > > > EndSection > > > > > > Section "Files" > > > Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:06:59 Arttu V. wrote: > > On 5/24/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files > > > can contain several entries). So, you have to run > > > > > > find /usr/portage/profi

Re: [gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session

2009-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 25 Mai 2009, sean wrote: > Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up? > > CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was tried does not kill the > session. > Sadly we have to pull the power to get back in. > There is not other system at the location to get in remotely. >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 26 Mai 2009, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm always rather reluctant to enable any of these, being unsure > whether my ageing PentiumPro or Pentium 4 CPUs support such features > as 3DNow! (originally an AMD technology) or the advanced SE3. > > According to this page

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 26 Mai 2009, Adam Carter wrote: > 'grep flags /proc/cpuinfo' to see what features the CPU supports, and add > those to USE. You'll recognise most but apparently "pni" = sse3 (but then > my core2 also shows ssse3 as wellodd) ssse3 is not sse3 different stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 26 Mai 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 26 May 2009, at 05:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > ... > > If a package would build using say 3dnow without the cpu supporting > > it it will > > crash with an instruction error. So either it works always or never. >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 26 Mai 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 26 May 2009, at 06:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> ... > >> The mplayer ebuild is stated to be "intelligent" about ignoring these > >> flags if necessary, so I'm not sure that "if mplayer works,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 27 May 2009, at 00:33, Keith Dart wrote: > >>> ... > >>> USE_FOO="this n that" > >>> USE_BAR="some more flags" > >>> BLAH="whatever else there might be" > >>> > >>> USE="${USE_FOO} ${USE_BAR} ${BLAH} > >> > >> Thank's. That is exactly what I was looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Stroller wrote: > >> On 27 May 2009, at 00:33, Keith Dart wrote: > >>>>> ... > >>>>> USE_FOO="this n that" > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> Protip: arrow keys, left, right. > >> > >> Nah, that just doesn&

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller wrote: > > Of course, the amount of time I've spent on this thread, I could perhaps > > have learned *exactly* what all these extended instruction sets do, who > > designed them, whether they're cross-licensed be

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > > > There's also Windows. F

Re: [gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session

2009-05-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 May 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 25 Mai 2009, sean wrote: > > > Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up? > > > > > > CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was t

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: > Maxim Wexler schrieb: > > Hi group, > > > > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk > > fails: No space left on device. > > > > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. > > Lots of 'No space l

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's > application launch menu (aka "Start menu"). Can this be seen as a bug > or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself? hmm...k3b- shows up in the 'multimedia' sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's > >> application launch menu (aka "Start menu&

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Stroller writes: > > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > > to. > > > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > > instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Stroller writes: > > But, surely "-march=" also instructs gcc to support the additional > > instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying > > to. > > > > What's the difference between supporting the "certain set of > > instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap & mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Grant wrote: > I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since > the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move > for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a > bad idea? > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > May be, it's not a "only Gentoo" question, but I want to write and start > applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work (as > example OOMMF: http://math.nist.gov/oommf/, but it, sometimes, unstable > under Windows XP). And

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Roy Wright wrote: > On May 31, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > >> May be, it's not a "only Gentoo" question, but I want to write and > >> start > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD

2009-05-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I was intending to use the 2008.0 live-install CD as a chroot platform > on a 900A EEE. Gentoo refers to the 2008.0 series as 'deprecated'. For > good reason: there's no ppp, no atheros wifi or eth0 support, BUT it > has lvm2 which I need.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have come across this debilitating affliction which means that I can > no longer shutdown properly my laptop. It looks as if the kernel > crashes when xorg is trying to unload the radeon driver - but I am not > sure - please see attached pic. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > 2009/6/2 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > >> This what I am currently running: > >> > >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 > >> > >> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 > >> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of > dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? > > The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration > files where the value of an option has been manually chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: > > * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. > * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB > > These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error > messages,

Re: [gentoo-user] News NILFS file-system?

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Stroller wrote: > I'm surprised to hear about a new file-system only as it enters the > main kernel tree: > > http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html > > Anyone got any comments on this? > > A snapshotty file-system would be *immensely* useful, but I fear > putting in

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, > because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was > at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). > Yesterday, when migra

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there! > > This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly > instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which > disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB > and increa

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic > on the ethernet I get anything from masssive distortion > to freezes of single channels (which can be recovered by > switch back and forth to another channel). > > I am wonderi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture > > have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is > > a great ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-06-06 12:09]: > > On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic > > > on the eth

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to (re)build kaffeine 0.8.6.

2009-06-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to rebuild kaffeine and the build failed. I attached the > environment file and the build log in compressed form to this > mail. > Here is, what emerge shows: > mv: cannot stat > `/home/mccramer/data/portagetmp/portage/media-vide

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to (re)build kaffeine 0.8.6.

2009-06-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-06-07 14:31]: > > On Sonntag 07 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I tried to rebuild kaffeine and the build failed. I attached the > > > environm

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