Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:57:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? No, that was the FSF's beef. As Volker sai

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue

2010-03-26 Thread Philip Webb
100326 CJoeB wrote: > I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. > I updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. > I send jobs to the printer and they appear in the queue, > but they just hang and won't print. I had the same experience & it turned out to be the new flag 'hpcu

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now,

[gentoo-user][kde4] system tray can only put into a panel?

2010-03-26 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i am trying to reorganized the layout of the kde widgets to make the desktop looks more personalized. i found the panel is pretty useless, so i removed it; but i need the system tray, because some applications only put a icon into it. after i put the system tray widget onto the desktop, i foun

[gentoo-user] Printing issue

2010-03-26 Thread CJoeB
Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote: ... Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can realistically handle at once. Hopefully all o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Mar 2010, at 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: ... Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month with bad RAM modules), I got this error today: [48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPD

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. > > Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years ago? They also had no qu

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] 8 bays/drives in server: only 6 seen in gentoo

2010-03-26 Thread Kyle Bader
Doesn't help right now but it sounds like an expander cable might be loose. On 3/26/10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Does anyone know this? > > I run 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 on a server, amd64 .. > > It has 8 hotswap-bays for hdds and lspci says it uses a ---> > > Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SA

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Johannes Kimmel
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Quinn wrote: I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My com

[gentoo-user] 8 bays/drives in server: only 6 seen in gentoo

2010-03-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone know this? I run 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 on a server, amd64 .. It has 8 hotswap-bays for hdds and lspci says it uses a ---> Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller So far I used the ahci-kernel-module, it worked. Until now we used only 4 hdds in that box, today I added 4 m

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: How'bout google picasa? Isn't that pretty large too? r...@smoker ~ # equery size kview * kde-base/kview-3.5.10 Total files : 110 Total size : 1.09 MiB r...@smoker ~ # Yes, it

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? -- Neil Bothwick A man needs a mistress - just to break the monogamy signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dale wrote: > Daniel Quinn wrote: >> >> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe >> I'd >> configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue >> someone >> here has run across in the past so here goes: >> >> My co

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd > configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone > here has run across in the past so here goes: > > My computer is a pretty impressiv

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Daniel Quinn wrote: I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >How'bout google picasa? > Isn't that pretty large too? > > r...@smoker ~ # equery size kview > * kde-base/kview-3.5.10 > Total files : 110 > Total size : 1.09 MiB > r...@smoker ~ # Yes, it is large, but it has loads of

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Damian
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: >> F-spot is written in mono. > > oh...what a hell of mistake i made. > > so, what do people do to manage photos on gnome? i do not like this mono one. I use geequie: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. >> > > I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific > drivers have always worked better for me. > >> Another possib

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Walker
On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no > change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try. > Suggestions welcome :-( > It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your system

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Walker
On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. > I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific drivers have always worked better for me. > Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the > motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Walker
On 26/03/10 20:02, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > >> >> Is there a file anywhere that I can edit, which mandates that to use the >> vdpau "use" flag, I have to have the vdpau package installed? > > geze.. there it is in the ebuild. > > Removed the dependency and all compiles/works well. Obviously y

Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware > acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. > > Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but > also brings in the "x1

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Kyle Bader
> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd > configured my kernel incorrectly Did this behavior start after a kernel upgrade? If yes, what was the previous kernel version and what version are you running now? -- Kyle

[gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load

2010-03-26 Thread Daniel Quinn
I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone here has run across in the past so here goes: My computer is a pretty impressive AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ box with 2GB of RAM an

[gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month with bad RAM modules), I got this error today: [48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [48055.741398] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:08:38:1

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Is there a file anywhere that I can edit, which mandates that to use the vdpau "use" flag, I have to have the vdpau package installed? geze.. there it is in the ebuild. Removed the dependency and all compiles/works well. Thanks for the time and help!!

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/26/10 14:29, Alex Kuster wrote: yes, because ffmpeg compiles against the shared library called vdpau to do the hardware acceleration ... so, the dependency IS necessary ... Thanks for the reply. Just downloaded the ffmpeg source distribution and FWICT, the ffmpeg source distribution inclu

[gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/26/10 13:25, Kaddeh wrote: do you have VIDEO_CARDS set in your make.conf? Yes; and VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" seems to be picked up just fine. Thanks for helping.

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Dale wrote: Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing skills or lack thereof. LOL How'bout google picasa? W Isn't that

Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Kuster
yes, because ffmpeg compiles against the shared library called vdpau to do the hardware acceleration ... so, the dependency IS necessary ... the driver installed externally also provides it the USE variable modifies the configuration of the package, so, if you remove vdpau, you won't compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. > GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing > skills or lack thereof. LOL > How'bout google picasa? W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

2010-03-26 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/24/10, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > I don't know what error 2 means and the build.log wasn't of much help. I don't know gnome packages, but I'd guess finding error 1 would be in order. Somewhere, maybe far, above. > What was of greater help was this link: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/278292

Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread Kaddeh
do you have VIDEO_CARDS set in your make.conf? On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware > acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. > > Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the c

[gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)

2010-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but also brings in the "x11-libs/libvdpau" libraries which I think I do not want, as my NVidia proprietary driv

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7. > > I just want to report back, that xorg-server-1.7.6 (+ friends) is > running just fine with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.721 . > The only minor problem was that one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
KH wrote: Am 26.03.2010 00:24, schrieb Dale: I would have to modify the script since it does random too. If KDE4 isn't broke now, I would surely finish it off if I started writing scripts. LOL I would think it could be disabled somehow but the folks on KDE mailing list couldn't find a way eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Freitag, 26. März 2010 schrieb Dale: Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing skills or lack thereof. LOL [...] This reminds me of the cereal isle in a grocery sto

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > >> want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why are you using GN

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > >> On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch >> wrote: > >> > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? >> > Helmut. >> >> I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it >> will appear when it is read

[gentoo-user] Re: Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes

2010-03-26 Thread Mick
On 26 March 2010 13:53, Mick wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone managed to get BCM4312, 802.11b/g (pcie) Device: pci > 0x4315, going with the b43 module? > > b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x0400, 0x, 0x, > 0x, 0x, 0x > b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

2010-03-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: > I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout > instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution > was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-) I found the solution (at least f

[gentoo-user] Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes

2010-03-26 Thread Mick
Hi, Has anyone managed to get BCM4312, 802.11b/g (pcie) Device: pci 0x4315, going with the b43 module? b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x0400, 0x, 0x, 0x, 0x, 0x b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (20

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? > > Helmut. > > I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it > will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into a pickle with > tryi

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 26. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. > GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing > skills or lack thereof. LOL > [...] > This reminds me of the cereal isle in a grocery store. We stand there > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-26 Thread KH
Am 26.03.2010 00:24, schrieb Dale: I would have to modify the script since it does random too. If KDE4 isn't broke now, I would surely finish it off if I started writing scripts. LOL I would think it could be disabled somehow but the folks on KDE mailing list couldn't find a way either. I even s

Re: [gentoo-user] default user permissions

2010-03-26 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Hi, Thanks for the help. Best regards, Hinko On 03/25/10 22:43, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.03.2010 09:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> On Thursday 25 March 2010 10:26:25 Hinko Kocevar wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Where is defined what permissions will the newly created folder/file >>> have by default