Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling against the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

Grant Edwards writes: > I haven't really paid much attention to start-up times, but > page loads in 3.5 feel a fair bit faster. I've also noticed > that 3.5 doesn't pause repeatedly while I'm typing a URL like > 3.0 used to. Page loads are faster, but page scrolling of some pages (eg slashdot ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: > > Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM > > loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

On 08/26/2009 06:10 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P jpeg-7 is masked It is not, actually. Unless you mean it's keyworded ~arch. But it's not masked. Without it any update process stops with this failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P > > jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this > failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output > I posted). > If I install it, many packaged n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P >> > > jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this > failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output > I posted). > If I install it, many packaged needs to rebuild, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output I posted). If I install it, many packaged needs to rebuild, for which I have not the time. When I want to pr

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

On 08/26/2009 05:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat alongside it so packages won't break. it is also masked... Er, you need this package on your system. A lot of software depends on it. It's not optional. Why I am urge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

> Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat > alongside it so packages won't break. it is also masked... Why I am urged via jpeg-7 to install maked package which will only have no effect on non-masked package, when I install another masked package? -- Please don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is r

[gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, while trying to update my gentoo I got this: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyw

[gentoo-user] Masked package needs itsself ?

Hi, while trying to update my gentoo I got this: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update i

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

i am working in a corporation network, very fast and stable. i think it is because the portage in the official livecd is too old that it cannot work with new portage snapshot. here is my trick to resolve this problem: after untar the portage-latest to the new system, and chroot, i do emerge -u p

[gentoo-user] Where can I download gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1?

Thanks David

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal mount .iso

On Tue, August 25, 2009 19:11, Vasya Volkov wrote: > В Пнд, 24/08/2009 в 12:07 +0200, Ward Poelmans пишет: > >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:26, Daniel Troeder >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:03 +0400, Top Point wrote: >>> Hi. Can hal mount .iso 9660 by loop device? I c

[gentoo-user] fc-cache

Hi, I came accross a certain "behaviour" of my Linux I cannot explain and I would like to change if possible, I use Icewm and X.org as desktop environment. Ending my work with a command like sudo halt from a terminal window results in no problem at all. But: When I do something like:

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On 08/26/2009 01:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] I can't remember the reason, but it's a common complaint that Mozilla products are slower in general on Linux (I even saw an article claiming the windows version of FF running in WINE can outperform the native Linux version of FF on the same machi

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman wrote: > I rarely use Firefox on linux but, on windows, 3.5 takes a longer time > to load compared to 3.0 (and 3.0 took longer than 2.x). I'm sure > add-ons and update checks are contributing mostly to that, but I > remember the good old days when Firefox started up fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: > >>> Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last >>> week and then changed back to unstable this week? >> >> I think so, yes.

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

Sorry for looking like a idiot... I won't do it again. Dave On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:07 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03:45AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > > > > On 25 Aug 2009, at 05:41, David Juhl wrote: > > > >> I am not getting any emails I thought th

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last >> week and then changed back to unstable this week? > > I think so, yes. If you read the Changelog file, it shows this: > > 21 Aug 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last > week and then changed back to unstable this week? I think so, yes. If you read the Changelog file, it shows this: 21 Aug 2009; Christian Faulhammer mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 23:04:12 Grant Edwards wrote: > Last week on all my systems emerge upgraded firefox (3.5.2-r1) > and xul-runner (1.9.1.2-r2). > > Now it's decided it wants to downgrade all of them to 3.0.13 > and 1.9.0.13. > > Looking at the package database page, I see that firefox > 3.5

[gentoo-user] Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

Last week on all my systems emerge upgraded firefox (3.5.2-r1) and xul-runner (1.9.1.2-r2). Now it's decided it wants to downgrade all of them to 3.0.13 and 1.9.0.13. Looking at the package database page, I see that firefox 3.5.2-r1 is marked as unstable (~x86). Same for xulrunner 1.3.1.2-r1. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

On 25/08/09 Crístian Viana said: > yes, but you're already using an unstable version of django. Not according to the Django developers. :) Anywho, I'll uninstall it for now. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Hal mount .iso

В Пнд, 24/08/2009 в 12:07 +0200, Ward Poelmans пишет: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:26, Daniel Troeder wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:03 +0400, Top Point wrote: > >> Hi. > >> Can hal mount .iso 9660 by loop device? I can mount .iso manually but > >> I > >> want to do it automatically by hal. >

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

> > Is this saying that it can't update django without pulling in an unstable > eselect-python? > yes, but you're already using an unstable version of django. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

[gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

Hi there, I haven't updated in a while, and I went to do so today and received this msoul...@anton:~$ emerge --update --pretend world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-admin/eselect-python-20090804

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03:45AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > > On 25 Aug 2009, at 05:41, David Juhl wrote: > >> I am not getting any emails I thought this one might make it this >> time. > > You should not post messages to the list simply to see if it is working. > The irony,

[gentoo-user] significant Mplayer multi-thread (multi-core) changes

Those using Nikos Chantziaras's fix to mplayer may wish to see his newest offering.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: > Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM > loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, > and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnect

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

There is basically two ways I know of... Whatever the handbook says, and nm-applet setting up the graphical network manager. The graphical one doesn't start up until you are in X and running, so some network processes may not start. There's a wiki on mn-applet. Dave On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 08:13

Re: [gentoo-user] no properly formatted md5 line when doing emerge-webrsync

2009/8/25 Xi Shen : > Hi, > > I am doing a fresh new gentoo x64 install. After I chroot to my new > gentoo system and do emerge-webrsync, I got the following error > message: > > no properly formatted md5 line > > I check the mirror sites and they all have the .md5sum file. I > remember I met this

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Massimiliano Ziccardi escreveu: > Hi all. > > This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl > > xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl > [1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for > Linux, 1.3.27ks > [1.906249] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

hehehe, wicd is really wicked stuff :-) I had endless hassles with network manager's clients. Stuff would never work. My auth scripts to get a valid login and be allowed out of the network at work never worked right. The damn thing would be up and down more often than my girlfriend's Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

Thank you Alan! Works!! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:48:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl > > > > xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl > > [1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN d

[gentoo-user] Port Multiplier Support

I am looking at ways to increase the drive capacity of my machine. It has 4 in built sata ports, and currently 2 off the PCI port - which is only sata 150 - this has proved a troublesome route. I have the option of a 2 port sata-300 off the 1 pci-express I have but I was looking to increase slig

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

On 25 Aug 2009, at 05:41, David Juhl wrote: I am not getting any emails I thought this one might make it this time. You should not post messages to the list simply to see if it is working. After subscribing simply wait for messages to arrive. If they do not do so within the expected p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy

See for a long discussion regarding this. The /path/to/your/file.iso can be played using mplayer (media-libs/ libdvdread USE="css"), but is not suitable for writing to disk (if you want it to be playable on a standalone player, at le

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy

On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:48, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: ... I just received a nice present from an american friend: a DVD. Of course, it's region 1 and I have a player set for France (region 2). I don't feel like hacking the player for a single region 1 DVD. Is there a way to make a copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:48:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all. > > This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl > > xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl > [1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, > 1.3.27ks > [1.906249] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation >

[gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan

Hi all. This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl [1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks [1.906249] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation [1.906361] iwlagn :03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17