Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 12 March 2010 01:59:19 Philip Webb wrote: > Further experience showed that Xterm's standard font doesn't do Unicode > & mouse-scroll doesn't work in Most etc, so I've gone back to Konsole > & settled on a tolerable font in 'fixed misc' at size 13 . I haven't been able to configure eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

2010-03-11 Thread Mick
On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote: > I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0 > instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot, > but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig ra0 > up). For instance t

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

2010-03-11 Thread Tony Miller
I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0 instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot, but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig ra0 up). For instance the boot log will say: * Starting ra0 * Configuring wireless

[gentoo-user] how can i get multiple chromium window on kde 4.4?

2010-03-11 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i can only start one chromium window. if i try to drag one tab off the main window, i got the follow error message: " The program 'chrome' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. " looks like this fe

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Webb
100311 Alex Schuster wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something nasty >> (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different font). >> I've switched to Xterm for Mutt & may junk Konsole for user terminal too. > I noticed this when

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-11 Thread walt
On 03/11/2010 07:54 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: Le 10/03/10 17:08, walt a écrit : On 03/10/2010 03:03 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never done that before, but today is a good time to try), It's a great tool and easy to use once you

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:55:30PM +, Mick wrote > With regards to your kernel panic I suspect an error in the .config > file you copied over. Do you keep a copy both in > /usr/src/linux-gentoo-XXX/ and in /boot? If yes then copy over your > .config from a different location this time, other

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 3/11/10, Mark Knecht wrote: >> to determine whether this package provides it. I cannot do that as I >> don't have lzma-utils on my systems anymore. > > Well, that can be sort of done with, e.g.: > > ebuild /usr/portage/app-arch/lzma-utils/lzma

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/11/10, Mark Knecht wrote: > to determine whether this package provides it. I cannot do that as I > don't have lzma-utils on my systems anymore. Well, that can be sort of done with, e.g.: ebuild /usr/portage/app-arch/lzma-utils/lzma-utils-4.32.7.ebuild install It will run emerge phases unti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. >>> >>> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write >>> freely there. >>> >

[gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > Stop fooling around with fstab and mount options. > The commands you want are chown and chmod Got ya ... thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. >> >> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write >> freely there. >> >> This line, does not do it: >> >> grep hdd7 /etc/fstab >> /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 11 March 2010 21:23:43 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. > > I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write > freely there. > > This line, does not do it: > > grep hdd7 /etc/fstab > /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool rei

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but I can't use it as

Re: [gentoo-user] About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. > > I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write > freely there. > > This line, does not do it: > > grep hdd7 /etc/fstab > /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserf

[gentoo-user] About mount with user rw

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess. I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write freely there. This line, does not do it: grep hdd7 /etc/fstab /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserfs noatime,exec,users,rw 0 2 (using the singular `user' didn't help

Re: [gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-11 Thread Tony Miller
I modified the RC_PLUG_SERVICES like this: RC_PLUG_SERVICES="net.ra0 !net.eth0" This appears to have worked perfectly! net.eth0 does not start at boot at all. Thanks so much! On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:53:00 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > This is a

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-11 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le 10/03/10 17:08, walt a écrit : > On 03/10/2010 03:03 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: >> So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never >> done that before, but today is a good time to try), > > It's a great tool and easy to use once you've learned the basic steps. > You can a

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-11 Thread Kyle Bader
If you use the cfq scheduler (linux default) you might try turning off low latency mode (introduced in 2.6.32): Echo 0 > /sys/class/block//queue/iosched/low_latency http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32 On 3/10/10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Recently I see bad performance with my vmware-se

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Arttu V. wrote: >> On 3/10/10, Damian wrote: >>> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >>> >>> It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 4:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one >>> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. >> How does that differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500 dhk wrote: > I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news > videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones. > It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4. I don't have speakers hooked up > just headphones and it use to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Damian
Hi Mark, > 1) What profile are you using? (eselect profile list) default/linux/amd64/10.0 > 2) USE flags from make.conf nls -kde -qt3 qt4 dvd alsa cdr X a52 aac acpi apm -arts \ bash-completion bzip2 crypt dbus dts dvdr ffmpeg flac gif hal hddtemp \ iconv jpeg jpeg2k latex libnotify lm_sen

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Damian
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 3/10/10, Damian wrote: >> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >> >> It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if >> somebody could give me a hint on how to s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now? > I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still > using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but > I can't use it as root at all. Huh? No problem here

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Jonathan
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:21 -0500 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > PS, why isn't there a "gzcat" command in Gentoo? It is "zcat" no g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:03:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > PS, why isn't there a "gzcat" command in Gentoo? Because it's called zcat. -- Neil Bothwick Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is a husband signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:55:30PM +, Mick wrote > If you had not enabled framebuffer in your old kernel then I can't > think how it would show up as enabled in your new kernel (as far as I > know fb is not enabled by default on any kernels that I've ever built) I'm running textmode console

[gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-11 Thread dhk
I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones. It's an Intel 32bit box with xfce4. I don't have speakers hooked up just headphones and it use to work a few months ago. I suspect it stopped working after

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:09:43 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: > A complete listing looks like this: > bragi linux # ls > arch drivers Kbuild modules.builtin samples usr > block firmware kernel modules.orderscripts > virt COPYINGfslib Modu

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:48:52 + Neil Bothwick wrote: Hi Neil, > It looks like /usr/src/linux points to newly installed kernel sources > on which you have not run make *config yet. nop, that's not the case: # uname -r 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #ls -lsa total 16 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-02-2

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/11/10 11:55, schrieb Arnau Bria: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:03 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: [...] This listing is not a complete kernel set. For curiosity, what is missing? make oldconfing?¿ Did you do a emerge --depclean lately? yep. Reemerge you kernel ebuild a

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:23:04 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: > * Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory. > * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux > sources > * Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to > use running version > *

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:03 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: [...] > This listing is not a complete kernel set. For curiosity, what is missing? make oldconfing?¿ > Did you do a emerge --depclean lately? yep. > Reemerge you kernel ebuild and do a make oldconfig to be sure. I'm with r6 and gentoo-sour

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 03/11/10 11:23, schrieb Arnau Bria: lx-arnau linux # ls /usr/src/linux arch crypto firmware include ipc lib Module.markers Module.symvers scripts sound usr vmlinux block drivers fsinit kernel mm modules.order net security System.map vi

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers: no kernel found?

2010-03-11 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I'm trying to install ati drivers, but I fins and error: * ati-driver-installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 16:19:34 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 9:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The current opinion of the current author of the kernel upgrade > > guide says what you quoted. > > > > It's his opinion, it's what he thinks will work best for the > > majority of people. It's p

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: > I see 1 improvement & 2 regressions so far; > NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps. > > Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something > nasty (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different > font). I've switch