Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
Michael Higgins wrote: > Heh. Let me google that *exact error string* for you, by way of > illustration... Thanks, Michael - I generally turn to google first. It's been a tough day, and I appreciate you pointing this out to me. I ran into another snag, this time with x11-libs/libXext-1.0.4 - it

Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Tue, 10/13, Denis wrote: === > Any constructive thoughts appreciated! :-) === It sounds to me like you are worming your way into a deeper hole. Just FYI, I went through the libxcb upgrade procedure, am running the libxcb 1.4 and latest X server, etc. and everything is working just fine.

Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:36:18 -0400 Denis wrote: > Of course, I forget to attach the file to embarrass myself to the > end... Great. :-P Oh, it's not over yet! > > Here it is! "make[1]: *** [ks_tables.h] Error 136" > > Any constructive thoughts appreciated!  :-) Heh. Let me google that *ex

Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
> I got around this block so far:  also masked >=x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5, >>=x11-libs/libX11-1.2, in addition to libxcb 1.4. Now I run into a bit of a problem: libX11-1.1.5 fails when compiled :-( I attached a build.log for this package... Can anyone tell me if this is fixable? Maybe some other

Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
Sorry, I don't tinker around with gentoo much, mostly just user :-) I got around this block so far: also masked >=x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5, >=x11-libs/libX11-1.2, in addition to libxcb 1.4. Reading ebuilds really helps! ha.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
ok, found it. On the sixth I did #make menuconfig && make modules_install and rebooted without any problem, everything worked as before. But I neglected to copy over the new kernel. All the fresh modules seeemed to get along fine with the stale kernel for an entire week so it never occured to me th

how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
I cleared everything X related from my box, and it is still alive and well :-) Now, as I was explaining in my previous thread, I would like to re-install X and all related apps, but forcing the older libxcb version. After I upgraded to libxcb 1.4 a few days ago, my X was unstable and kept crashin

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

2009-10-13 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Fernando Antunes wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Grant wrote: > >> I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden. The >> wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a >> terminal without error. I've tried restar

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

2009-10-13 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden. The > wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a > terminal without error. I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting. > The twinkle icon shows up in the center of

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Joshua Murphy schrieb: > >> Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category. > > ;-) > >> There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it >> alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig > wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee > shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics > and the console fre

[gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

2009-10-13 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads: ath5k_tasklet_rx40

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

2009-10-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
I've been having some issues myself (mythtv manages to mess up my screen royally, I need to switch to a text virtual console and back to X to make the screen legible after viewing a TV-recording in myth). I just noticed that the version of the headers for xcb do not match the version on libxcb

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

2009-10-13 Thread Dale
Jim Cunning wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: >> >>> On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > I recen

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: > > I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging > > out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: > > > > jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbi

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: > I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging > out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: > > jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display

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

2009-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote: > Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. > > Here are my USE flags: > > X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb > cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac >

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

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: > > On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10

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

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. Here are my USE flags: X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imli

[gentoo-user] setxkbmap does not work after upgrading to KDE4

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Johansson
After upgrading to KDE4 the other day my keyboard mapping stopped working. I traced it back to setxkbmap. Manually entering setxkbmap (with extra verbosity) gives the following: $ setxkbmap -model logicd -layout ch -variant de_nodeadkeys -v 10 Setting verbose level to 10 locale is C Warning! Mul

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Yoav Luft
This regard that last one, I was just being stupid. Portage handles that just fine, I just forgot to add the --upgrade flag On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: > As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which > require the older Qt libraries, or at least that's w

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Yoav Luft
As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which require the older Qt libraries, or at least that's what I understand. Below is the emerge (only partly, as it wants to update a lot more other packages which are not relevant). It seems to me like a pain in the ass, and usually a so

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

2009-10-13 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: > Ok, "emerge -e world" completed successfully. > > Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica... > > On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that. > As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages > and then use emerge --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Joshua Murphy schrieb: > Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category. ;-) > There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it > alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during > boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a > little

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

2009-10-13 Thread Denis
Ok, "emerge -e world" completed successfully. Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica... On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that. As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages and then use emerge --depclean to prune out the danglers

[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event

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

2009-10-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 07:56:20 schrieb Jim Cunning: > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a > separate window.

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

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > > logged in. With KDE 4.3.x,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, gentoo-users, > > as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main > workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for > the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additi

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you > upgrade, > it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible > packages installed at the same time. > > Either: > > unmerge all of qt > em

[gentoo-user] Re: qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 13.10.2009 14:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) > > [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r > (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, > x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-l

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) >> >> [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r >> (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, >> x11-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg + nvidia driver problems

2009-10-13 Thread Arnau Bria
After the upgrade and completly remove xorg.conf (hal does all the job) my xorg server works fine again... it has no GLX extension, and maybe other modules are out, but meanwhile I can use nvidia driver... Cheers, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for v

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) > > [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r > (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, > x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-g

[gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote: >> When I run alacarte I get the following error. >> >> $ alacarte >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in >> main() >> File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main >> app = Mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread Anton Bobov
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote: > When I run alacarte I get the following error. > > $ alacarte > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in > main() > File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main > app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sy

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

2009-10-13 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Living on disability sucks, >> > So why do you? > > >> If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. >> > > You really don't have to be living like that if you don't > want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at > neil-at-ne

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of >> data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of >> read and write speed of your hdd :-) Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-) >> I often use the ram disk for creating i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Anton Bobov wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >>> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >>> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >>> selected "Edit Menus" and after making a few changes I pre

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

2009-10-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
KH wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > > > > But German is consistent. English is not consistent. > > I am not so sure about German being consistent. As a fact often a lot of > information is lost during translation. This is more likely the main > problem. Let me try to be precise: The engli

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

2009-10-13 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: But German is consistent. English is not consistent. I am not so sure about German being consistent. As a fact often a lot of information is lost during translation. This is more likely the main problem. kh

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

2009-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly > > deprecate the idiocies over time. > > Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all

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

2009-10-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly > deprecate the idiocies over time. Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all adverbs before their verbs, or that inserts a comma between a ver