[gentoo-user] partition scheme

2006-10-16 Thread Thufir
For hdb, what's a good partitioning scheme? I want to go with reiser, and keep the vfat (for win2k). I have 512MB RAM, should I change the swap size? Is there a big advantage to using LVM versus just a regular root partition? I figure I'll use hda just for storage of stuff prior to burning to d

[gentoo-user] open-xchange login problem in to webmail

2006-10-16 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi to all,    I have just installed open-xchange on my system. And good thing is that i am able to login in to groupware. In groupware i am able to change my password as well. But the problem is that, when i am trying to login in to webmail, it gives me an error like :- ConnectException

[gentoo-user] Xorg upgrade

2006-10-16 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Just upgraded to xorg-x11-7.1. Definitely faster than 7.0. glxgears runs at just under 19,000FPS, an increase of about 12%. Fantastic! Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xf86-driver-ati-6.6.3 fails

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:17, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I started an update world today which ran through xorg-server and xorg-x11 > before it went along to update x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3. This > package tries to check /etc/portage/profile/make.globals and fails > miserably. :-( The

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge xf86-driver-ati-6.6.3 fails

2006-10-16 Thread Mick
What do you have under /etc/portage/profile/ ? I've checked on two machines and the make.globals is not there. Instead it is under /etc/: # ls -la /etc/make.globals -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2928 Sep 16 08:48 /etc/make.globals Still desperate for a solution. Any ideas please? On Monday 16 Octo

[gentoo-user] problems making shareable directory shareable

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I am trying to create a shareable directory, where all newly created files will have group rwx permissions assigned. I followed the example found at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lpi-101-intermediate-p3.xml#doc_chap3_sect19 and preformed the following steps: mkdir /home/share chgrp use

Re: [gentoo-user] masked by: missing keyword

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 05:06, Grant wrote: > I'm trying to install gnormalize via the sunrise overlay via layman. > When I try to emerge gnormalize I get: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnormalize" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete you

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Neil Hodges
Hello, The error regarding the "/var/run/acpid.socket" means that you don't have acpid installed, nor running. I don't know if the fault has something to do with that. It may be a good idea to emerge sys-power/acpid and add it to your default runlevel: rc-update add acpid default Also, add Optio

[gentoo-user] masked by: missing keyword

2006-10-16 Thread Grant
I'm trying to install gnormalize via the sunrise overlay via layman. When I try to emerge gnormalize I get: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnormalize" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/gnormalize-0.50 (masked by: mi

[gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"

2006-10-16 Thread Grant
Do you guys leave the berkdb USE flag on? It seems to be a default flag, but I've been using -berkdb in make.conf ever since I started using Gentoo. Is it basically a better way for lots of different packages to manage their databases? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 03:41, James Colby wrote: > > Based on bugs.gentoo.org this is a CFLAGS issue. What are your CFLAGS? > > My CFLAGS are pretty safe: > CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -mcpu=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > > Do you see any issues with these? Try with CFLA

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread James Colby
Based on bugs.gentoo.org this is a CFLAGS issue. What are your CFLAGS? -- Bo Andresen My CFLAGS are pretty safe: CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -mcpu=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" Do you see any issues with these? Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xorg crashing on logout

2006-10-16 Thread Devon Miller
I logged out today and Xorg crashed with this trace:Backtrace:0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c33c1]1: [0xe420]2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so(xf86SetCursor+0x109) [0xaf98f6e9] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so [0xaf98ed46]4: /usr/bin/X(miPointerUpdate+0x165) [0x8110e15]5: /us

[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
> I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 > I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. > Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. > The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:42, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Hi, > > I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 > I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. > Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. > The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command > line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update?

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/16/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: long will it take me to realize what's happened? What I'm asking for is a way to pre-emptively tell etc-update not to bother me about certain files. Zap the new version and keep the old. cat > my_etcupdate.sh <

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Philip Webb
061016 Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 > I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. > Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. > The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. I've had no problem with Xorg-x11 7.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

2006-10-16 Thread Grant
> After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started > noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle > of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always > shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it > very visible.

[gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors O

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update?

2006-10-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:06:40AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote > I suspect you don't really understand what CONFIG_PROTECT{,_MASK} is. Please > read the output of `emerge --help --config`. All the files you've mentioned > are covered by CONFIG_PROTECT in a default configuration so if they ar

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > localhost heathen # emerge --info | grep CONFIG > CONFIG_PROTECT="" You've told portage to overwrite any config files in /etc, or anywhere else, whenever you update a package. dispatch-conf certainly isn't to blame, the damage is sel

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
Please see my reply to Neil re this thread > Once you marked some directories from protection, > emerge will, instead of > using the file from a package, install the file from > a package > as ._cfg- (or somesuch). Tools like > dispatch-conf and > etc-update are then used to merge your file

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:26, maxim wexler wrote: > localhost heathen # grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf > CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" WHY did you set that?? Remove it! Read the output of: # emerge --help --config -- Bo Andresen pgp3pkcTQCinJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
> If you really have an empty CONFIG_PROTECT, > dispatch-conf didn't touch > this file, it was replaced during emerge. You must > fix this before > emerging anything else or you will overwrite more > config files. > > What do > emerge --info | grep CONFIG > and > grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf > show

Re: [gentoo-user] cups-kde-3.5.5 error

2006-10-16 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:22, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 16 October 2006 20:13, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I suddenly cannot print from anything that uses kprinter today? It fails > > stating it cannot connect to teh cups server(which is localhost). > > --- branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kdeprint/cups/

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 October 2006 20:44, James Colby wrote: > I am trying emerge media-video/transcode. One of the dependencies is > media-libs/jpeg-mmx and when emerge tries to compile it, it fails with > the following error: > > /bin/install -c -m 644 ./jinclude.h > /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/im

[gentoo-user] emerge xf86-driver-ati-6.6.3 fails

2006-10-16 Thread Mick
Hi All, I started an update world today which ran through xorg-server and xorg-x11 before it went along to update x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3. This package tries to check /etc/portage/profile/make.globals and fails miserably. :-( The reason is that I have no such file. The only file I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags

2006-10-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 October 2006 16:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2006 18:10, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Alan, but the question I meant to ask is: why only the > > xorg-server takes account of these flags, while the xorg-x11 doesn't? > > xorg-x11 is a meta package. It's purpose is to merge v

[gentoo-user] Emerge fails - Can't stat a file

2006-10-16 Thread James Colby
List Members - I am trying emerge media-video/transcode. One of the dependencies is media-libs/jpeg-mmx and when emerge tries to compile it, it fails with the following error: /bin/install -c -m 644 ./jinclude.h /var/tmp/portage/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1/image//usr/include/jpeg-mmx/jinclude.h cp: canno

[gentoo-user] cups-kde-3.5.5 error

2006-10-16 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
I suddenly cannot print from anything that uses kprinter today? It fails stating it cannot connect to teh cups server(which is localhost). Control Center > Peripherals > Printers gives the same error, BUT If I go to the K button (bottom left on my kde panel) K > Print System > Print Manager The

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Régis Décamps
On 10/16/06, Roman Zilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... > > > > I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen > > folders containing several gigabytes of mail us

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update problem.

2006-10-16 Thread James
Alan McKinnon linuxholdings.co.za> writes: > Nothing is recorded as creating /usr/share/X11/xkb but /var/lib/xkb was > installed from xkbcomp - try remerge that, then emerge xorg-server > again Hello Alan, That did the trick! nice use or equery belongs... thx, James -- gentoo-user@g

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

2006-10-16 Thread Sven Köhler
> After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started > noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle > of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always > shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it > very visible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 18:10, Mick wrote: > Thanks Alan, but the question I meant to ask is: why only the > xorg-server takes account of these flags, while the xorg-x11 doesn't? xorg-x11 is a meta package. It's purpose is to merge various x11 packages as dependencies and it doesn't do any merg

[gentoo-user] xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies

2006-10-16 Thread Grant
After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it very visible. It looks

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags

2006-10-16 Thread Mick
Thanks Alan, but the question I meant to ask is: why only the xorg-server takes account of these flags, while the xorg-x11 doesn't? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 16:56, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > It's time for a new update for my laptop and I noticed that > INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS are only recognised by the server: [snip ebuild output] > In my make.conf I have: > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update problem.

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 17:15, James wrote: > Hello, [snip] > !!! Cannot write to '/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'. [snip] > /usr/share/X11/xkb shows: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root12 Sep 4 03:24 compiled -> /var/lib/xkb > /var/lib/xkb does not exist. > > Any ideas what I should do? My system i

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update problem.

2006-10-16 Thread Remy Blank
James wrote: > /usr/share/X11/xkb shows: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root12 Sep 4 03:24 compiled -> /var/lib/xkb > /var/lib/xkb does not exist. You could try to re-create the directory with the info below, or maybe re-emerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll -d /var/lib/xkb drwxr-

[gentoo-user] xorg-server update problem.

2006-10-16 Thread James
Hello, > ON an amd64(turion) system, upon a rountine update I get this problem: >>> Emerging (1 of 2) x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 to / * xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... * [ ok ] * xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... >>> /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so >>> /usr/

[gentoo-user] xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags

2006-10-16 Thread Mick
Hi All, It's time for a new update for my laptop and I noticed that INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS are only recognised by the server: == [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 [1.0.2-r7] USE="dri nptl%* sdl%* xorg%* -3dfx% -aiglx% -debug

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 15:50, fire-eyes wrote: Using a IBM (yes, it says IBM on it ;p) Thinkpad T43. As for the closed drivers, I have zero intentions of touching them again anytime soon, those things regularly lock my system up so hard i've had severe filesystem damage.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:50, fire-eyes wrote: > Using a IBM (yes, it says IBM on it ;p) Thinkpad T43. As for the > closed drivers, I have zero intentions of touching them again anytime > soon, those things regularly lock my system up so hard i've had > severe filesystem damage. I have heard the

[gentoo-user] Re: camera software for amd64?

2006-10-16 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Looking around I cannot seem to find any software for the amd64(turion) > > that allows me to interface, download pictures and manage them in > > some sort of digital gallery. I use KDE but a gtk_ish app is ok too. > Digikam or KPhotoalbum, both are in

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 00:02, fire-eyes wrote: I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with header files, it wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Calendar sharing with MS outlook on gentoo

2006-10-16 Thread José González Gómez
2006/10/14, bijayant kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi to all,    I want to install MS outlook on the gentoo. Can it possible to run MS outlook on gentoo-linux. If yes then how...??? Is any extra plugin required to do the same. My main concern is that i have to provide calendar sharing with

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zilka
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... > > > > I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen > > folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail > > client. This "works" -

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
> This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... > > I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen > folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail > client. This "works" - but I am surprised by the number of imap > processes that the mail server i

[gentoo-user] IMAP servers

2006-10-16 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
This is not so much a problem as an 'I wonder'... I currently use dovecot imap with maildir to support several dozen folders containing several gigabytes of mail using Thunderbird as a mail client. This "works" - but I am surprised by the number of imap processes that the mail server is running t

Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters

2006-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 11:11, Liviu Andronic wrote:> Hello list,>> My system doesn't seem to be able to render certain fonts, mainly> corefonts (Microsoft Arial, Verdana & Co.), but also unicode > characters (Cyrillic, French diacritics, etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 11:11, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello list, > > My system doesn't seem to be able to render certain fonts, mainly > corefonts (Microsoft Arial, Verdana & Co.), but also unicode > characters (Cyrillic, French diacritics, etc. of Sans, Vera and some > other). They display a s

[gentoo-user] problems rendering unicode characters

2006-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello list,My system doesn't seem to be able to render certain fonts, mainly corefonts (Microsoft Arial, Verdana & Co.), but also unicode characters (Cyrillic, French diacritics, etc. of Sans, Vera and some other). They display a series of four numbers instead of a given character. The only font th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > However, the problem isn't emelFM2 specific. It is more linked to GTK+2> applications. For example, Qalculate! isn't able to display the pi sign> (the unicode pi sign). Or Xfce cannot display corefonts (Arial, Tahoma, > Verdana). Inst

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.1 radeon hardware acceleration? x300 (M22 [Radeon Mobility M300])

2006-10-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:02, fire-eyes wrote: > I am interested in getting hardware acceleration, if that's the right > term, with xorg 7.1 and xorgs radeon drivers. I tried this a while > ago but it meant a lot of messing with cvs software and goofing with > header files, it was a pain. Hopefu