[gentoo-user] Re: Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before > HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 > aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention it so you know I'm > as wel

[gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention it so you know I'm as well off as I was before the old monitor fritzed out on me. In orde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bug 291488, Binutils. Workaround?

2010-08-24 Thread Al
> That bug seems to concern mostly Solaris and mostly on SPARC, if I read > it correctly.  Is that your situation? > Not at all. It´s an ordinary PC. Why does it search this archive64 thingy? Looks like a bug. I am searching a workaround. > Anyway, the word "profile" in gentoo usually refers to

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-24 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: Wireshark will show you the raw packet data, and decode only a little of it - enough to identify the general protocol, senders, etc. So to understand the packet, you will need to understand the application layer protocol - in this case HTTP - yourself as Wireshark won't help you there.

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug 291488, Binutils. Workaround?

2010-08-24 Thread walt
On 08/24/2010 12:23 PM, Al wrote: OK, this is a Prefix related bug, but I don't want to bother the small team, with every question of a gentoo beginner. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291488 Binutils tries to build a 64 bit module on a 32 bit machine: archive64 something... That bug s

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Yah, I might have some luck with that. Since I'm years out of practice fooling with t

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman > > [major snippage] > Check out x11-apps/amlc -- it has an interactive modeline generator > where you tell it the aspect ratio &

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, dhk wrote: > On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > >>> wrote: > >>> > > Yah, I might have some luck with that.

[gentoo-user] Is there any games base on openCL?

2010-08-24 Thread Blackdream W
I install the ati-drivers-10.7.1 just now,this version it seem support openCL 1.1. Any games base on it? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread dhk
On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >>> wrote: >>> Yah, I might have some luck with that. Since I'm years out of practice fooling with this stuff (

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> Yah, I might have some luck with that.  Since I'm years out of practice >>> fooling with this stuff (last seen in 2002) can someone point me at the >>> too

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Yah, I might have some luck with that. Since I'm years out of practice fooling with this stuff (last seen in 2002) can someone point me at the tools for 1) Computing a modeline (I understand the quality varies a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: >> >> >> >> On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're uncertain about a package name. The search will also tell you whether the package is installed, what ver

Re: [gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
On 8/24/2010 5:44 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: Since you're building from source, very few programs actually need to be 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS. ... In this case, the Wine package maintainer has set up the ebuild to build 32-bit by default, even on an amd64 profile. ... there is a whole list of

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: > >> > >> On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter wrote: > >> > > >> >> No. I ditched my xor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/24/2010 11:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: > > I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been > > searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle > > emerges for 32bit programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In other words, "-bin" is not a magic string you append to package names. As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both 64bit as well as 32bit Wine. I think the binaries are c

Re: [gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/24/2010 4:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: > I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been > searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle > emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. > > I have found some references to using -bin for 32

[gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/24/2010 11:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. I have found some references to using -bin for 32bit pr

[gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. I have found some references to using -bin for 32bit programs (example: "emerge wine-bin" to get the 32bit

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Arttu V.
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/24/10 19:17:05, Arttu V. wrote: On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I

[gentoo-user] Bug 291488, Binutils. Workaround?

2010-08-24 Thread Al
OK, this is a Prefix related bug, but I don't want to bother the small team, with every question of a gentoo beginner. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291488 Binutils tries to build a 64 bit module on a 32 bit machine: archive64 something. They write I have to remove the -L/usr/sfw/lib/64

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: >> >> On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter wrote: >> > >> >> No.  I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because >> >> I >> >> couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to wo

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 19:17:05, Arttu V. wrote: > On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers > to > >> a > >> > local distribu

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: >> On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to >> a >> > local distribution file. >> > >> > I've tried >> > >> > SRC_URI="file:

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: > On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter wrote: > > > >> No. I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because I > >> couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to work without it. The Xorg logs > >> show it recognizes a boatload of > >> mo

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, wrote: > > > 1) Did you made entries for right resolution mode in xorg.conf > I modified xorg.conf just to change the idenity info about the monitor. Not seeing any effect, I deleted xorg.conf entirely, and that's how I'm runnung now, and got the Xorg.0.log I a

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
James writes: > My friend threw a theory out there -- maybe the beginning of the > partition is incorrect on the drive? The drive originally had an NTFS > partition. By blowing away the beginning of the drive and then > rewriting the partition table, maybe the kernel was using the original > "begi

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread James
Sorry -- it's a USB device so the drive letter has changed as I've moved the drive around. My friend threw a theory out there -- maybe the beginning of the partition is incorrect on the drive? The drive originally had an NTFS partition. By blowing away the beginning of the drive and then rewriting

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > a > > local distribution file. > > > > I've tried > > > > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" > > > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread Mick
On 24 August 2010 15:46, James wrote: > Yep, positive. Just checked through my history: > > mkreiserfs -f /dev/sdd1 > mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup Hmm ... if you have made a fs on sdd1, why are you trying to mount sdf1 in your first post? ... or is sdd1 now being recognised by udev as sdf1? I am

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-24 Thread Chen Huan
I am the same problems with 2.6.35, now I downgrade to 2.6.34-r6, it is normal till now 2010/8/23 Alan Warren > Thanks Mark, I'll look into that config option, and try again with top > open. > > In this case I was doing a home backup to a 1TB WD Caviar black formatted > as ext3. > > I also have

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread James
Yep, positive. Just checked through my history: mkreiserfs -f /dev/sdd1 mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup While I'm not opposed to paying $25 to namesys, I'm (a) not certain they will able to fix this cluster, and (b) I'm more inclined to turn to the open source community for help. Googling reveals thi

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread James
Albert, Thanks for the response. "dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer put on the drive. The disk isn't bad -- if it was then I wouldn't have the ability to recover the files via foremost / scalpel.

KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: > > BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, > > they are not even mounted. > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks, Mick, Robin and Alan! Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > > > > a > > > > > local distribution file. > > > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly: > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > > > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Mick
On 24 August 2010 12:25, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a > local distribution file. > > I've tried > > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" > > but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported. > > Is there any alternative?

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to > a > > local distribution file. > > > > I've tried > > > > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" > > > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a > local distribution file. > > I've tried > > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" > > but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported. > > Is there any altern

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Mick
On 24 August 2010 11:23, Adam Carter wrote: > >> No.  I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because I >> couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to work without it.  The Xorg logs >> show it recognizes a boatload of >> modes that the monitor likes, but gives an alibi for not usin

[gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2" but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any alternative? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Adam Carter
> No. I ditched my xorg.conf completely; it had been there just because I > couldn't get the Westinghouse monitor to work without it. The Xorg logs > show it recognizes a boatload of > modes that the monitor likes, but gives an alibi for not using the HD > ones. The approach > does not seem prom

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Petri Rosenström
To display 1920x1080 resolution with 32 bit colors, you need 8,294,400 bytes of video memory. So if you have more than eight megs of video mem you shouldn't need to buy a new one. have you tried something like xrandr --auto --- Petri Rosenström On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, wrote: >> On